GREAT BRITAIN.

Southland Times, Issue 23026, 21 October 1936, Page 8

GREAT BRITAIN.

To the Editor.

Sir, —Those who are really devoted to Britain and the Empire feel most deeply the degradation brought on us all by Ramsay MacDonald, Baldwin and our incompetent, pusillanimous Imperial statesmen. The Assyrians had proved themselves to be our friends: we betrayed and deserted them. The Abyssinians were our friends: we prevented them from arming themselves, we helped them feebly and deserted them when, thanks to us, they were defeated. The Belgians made a great sacrifice for us. How have we repaid them? History can tell of no baser betrayal than our betrayal of the Belgians. What is peculiarly maddening for all our betrayed and deserted friends is the fact that we use the most pious excuses to justify our treachery. As we stab them in the back we say, with unction, God bless you! But vengeance, the vengeance of God, will follow and punish our vile treachery. Just now our friends in Spain are enjoying our protection. We shamelessly break longestablished international usage in order to hamstring our friends, the loyalists, the legally elected rulers of Spain. We shall soon pay for that nasty bit of treachery. That we should be massacring our friends, the Arabs, will surprise no one who knows our history since the Great War. Is there any nation that we have not betrayed? Always with the highest motives, of course. Our rulers can bluff the League of Nations Union. But can they bluff God? I think not.—Yours, etc.,

J. P. DAKIN. Invercargill, October 20, 1936.