Russian Conditions

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19900, 30 March 1939, Page 16

Russian Conditions

Sir,—Good on “Disgusted.” Them’s my sentiments. Let these Rooshian sympathisers rant and rail. So far as f can see a workin’ man can’t get a return of ham and eggs there at 3 o’clock in the morning. Good old British freedom will do me. and them as don’t like it had better pack their swags, and hop it to Stalin and Co. OLD BILL. Sir.—The Pied Piper of Hamelin piped rats from the town and was scurvily treated by the inhabitants for his services. “Disgusted” is to be congratulated, not only on the sentiments expressed in his letter, but also for piping two local Russian admirers to their holes. Both “C.P.H.’s” and Mr. W. Appleby’s sympathies .ire too well known to readers of your columns to require comment, -but I wish that “C.P.H.” would stick to prose, and not inflict lamentable and unmetrical verse on your hapless readers. So far as Mr. Appleby is concerned, one can always forgive a little genuine hero worship, and can admire his loyalty to Mr. McGillick as a protagonist of an ideology to which Mr. Appleby has always afforded lip service at least; without, as so neatly put by Mr. Charles West, displaying any marked symptoms of a desire to spend his declining years feasting on caviare as the guest of the Soviet Republic. A VIRGIN STURGEON.