MR EDEN’S VISIT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 8

MR EDEN’S VISIT

Sir,—ln your Saturday's issue Mrs L. Carden presents us with a new definition of the word “ scurrility." In point of fact I did not " wait until Mr Eden had gone.” My first letter on this subject was written and posted before Mr Eden left for Australia, but was held up doubtless because of “ pressure on our space ” (the ever-present difficulty the modern newspaper editor has to contend withl The matter was of no -significance to my mind, for the reason that primarilv [ was writing for the benefit of New Zealanders. Your correspondent mentions Generals Barrowclougb and Kippenberger as authorities on the decisions of Mr Eden and his colleagues tr the critical times of 1942, but these gentlemen were obviously straining their vocabularies to welcome a distinguished guest from overseas, as they were in duty bound to do. My authorities were members of the BritovHouse of Commons, speaking in the actual hour of crisis, and the subsequent fall cf Singapore tn jig time with its garrison of 60,000 British and Australian troops showed how dreadfully right they were.—

I am, etc.. Balclutha

D. G. A.