DR M'MILLAN AND CRICKET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22563, 6 May 1935, Page 28

DR M'MILLAN AND CRICKET

TO THE EDITOR Sib, —Your correspondent " Hitler," in this morning's issue raises the question whether Dr H'Millan has ever played cricket. I suppose he uses it in a figurative rather than a literal sense. My experience of Dr M'Millan is that he does not play fairly. On an occasion which lie doubtless remembers he wrote a letter in which he approvingly quoted Edmund Burke, the purpose being to claim the statesman as a supporter of present-day Labour policy. Nothing, of | course, could be more grotesque, for the reason that Burke was above all thinars independent and an opponent of machine politics of any kind. I pointed out that where he had used a known quotation from Burke he had misquoted it, and that I had been unable to find three sentences which he claimed as from Burke. I asked him for chapter and verse, and repeated the request on several occasions. Tie has not supplied tho reference or the occasion on which the words were used. It is improbable that he has forgotten the sentences, because I have asked for them on at least six occasions. These were the words: — A representative is a member of a party which places before the nation a certain system of national policy. He J 3 ejected partly because he is a member of that party and an advocate of that system, and partly for his own sake. For what his constituents buy with their votes is not only his party loyalty but very specially his own judgment and conscience. The sentences, as I have said before, are either in Burke's " Works" or they are not. If Dr M'Millan extracted them from Burke he should be able to give us chapter and verse. It would be cricket to tell your readers where he got the quotation from. What is it if Dr M'Millan again refuses? —I am, etc.. Plain Bill. Dunedin, May 3.