BRITAIN AND ITALY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22711, 25 October 1935, Page 11

BRITAIN AND ITALY

TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —In your issue to-day "Another New Zealander ” again confesses his inability to get along without the aid of worm-eaten quotations, which, however, he contrives to get all wrong, and he is still inextricably mixed up with old women ami broom sticks. He accuses me of getting personal, but his latest is entirely personal, with no reference at all to current events in regard to the Italo-Abys-sinian war. He entirely misses the point of my reference to his place of abode and wool-gathering, and is altogether a very unsatisfactory opponent in a controversy of this sort. I would just remind him that intelligence is not a matter of geography. There are just as many muddled intellects in Dunedin as anywhere else, and Balclutha is just as good a specimen of its size as other similar towns in the Dominion. The march of events in regard to the League of Nations and Britain's efforts to force the League to check Italy remains practically as before. France will never act in a military sense or with drastic sanctions against Italy, and the League has no machinery available for the application of sanctions in any case. All the hard names hurled against Italy in New Zealand and other parts of the Empire will avail not one jot against the logic of facts. So why pretend? It is just such campaigns of senseless hate and misrepresentation that lead to wars and their hideous aftermath. As for signing my name to a letter on so important a subject, what difference would that make? I am quite willing to do so if circumstances dictate, but considering the nature of my occupation I find it better not to force my individuality in that way. —I am, etc., Patriotic New Zealander. Balclutha, October 23. [This correspondence is closed.—Ed. O.D.T.]