THE SOVIET THREAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20986, 24 September 1931, Page 12

THE SOVIET THREAT.

Sir, —Mr Bloodworth now informs us )hat the payment of her debts by Russia to Britain ''would cause to the people of Britain and New Zealand greater inconvenience and suffering than the non-pay-ment of them has done." So we have been receiving blessings in disguise, and should probably never have recognised them as blessings but for Mr. Bloodworth! 1 am greatly concerned about the British Chancelloi of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden, and the vast majority of the British people, because they seem to be still ill ignorance of the debt of gratitude they owe to Russia for not paying either interest or principal of her debt, and will so remain until some British Tom Bloodworth arises to sweep aside their dense financial ijvnoranee. The statistics Mr. Bloodworth g%-es of the birth and death rates in Russia do not touch the question of how many are living in tshe misery of a life of peft'petual hardship jind slow starvation till tluVy succumb, neither can reliance be placed upon such statistics, which are only allowed to go forth after strict censorship yhilfc Stalin remains in power. This is wfcat Trotsky says <iS Stalin: He lias armed? control of every word punted in Russia; perfect a worldrWide political prcss-bittcau has never been known in the past, .and Stalin has used it with sly skill, and without scruple of honesty ; and, "Stalin's political lying « deliberate and fundamental policy. 231, Parnell Road. J- 1 houses.