Dear Sir

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 81, 17 September 1947, Page 4

Dear Sir

Letters to the Editor must be clearly written on one side of the paper only and where a nom-de-plume is used the name of the writer must be included ; for reference purposes. The Editor reserves the right to abridge, amend or withhold any letter or letters. A CRITICAL OPPONENT Sir, —There is little to be said about Bretton Woods, that does not prove that if carried out to its finality, it will be the political and economic control of the British Nation, by foreign finance. This not withstanding Mr A. J. Sinclair’s assertions, for and against (vide Herald, August 27-28/47). It is noteworthy that the attacks on our British way of life are through our political economy, and it is essential that we should examine the functioning of our political economy as conducted and controlled by foreign finance. Mr Sinclair says: The only practical alternative the opponents of Bretton Woods have to put forward, is to join up with other sterling countries! The Bank of Engand being the double headed penny “of Wall Street finance” gets you nowhere. But apparently he is not prepared to allow production without paying a levy to the Kelly Gang, and plays the soft peddle on fear complex, when he says “we must remember we are already in debt in the sterling areas; and- can not provide for our needs and markets?” Who queered the pitch? Therefore we the British people must see to it, that we are not once more betrayed to foreign finance. We have been paying for the sins of our political administrators from Oliver Cromwell to this day. Having acknowledged that the gold standard is a failure; yet Mr Sinclair suggests that, we the British people, should bow down to the mystic power of that mosaic shrine in the hills of Kentucky, while it’s Priests and Acolytes are preaching economic servitude, under the guise of socialism. So when we sing the National Anthem, why not add the second verse!

“Oh Lord our God arise Scatter our enemies And make them fall, Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, V On Thee our hopes we fix . God save us all.” Stalin in 1939: “What is our country as it builds Socialism, but a base for world revolution?” Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW. RUR IMA ISLETS Sir, —Many thanks for publishing my comments on the “Shag Shoot” at Rurima Islets. You did not, however, follow my method of spelling which I believe is corect, viz Rurima. I may not have been entirely correct, however, in applying the name to the whole of the group. I believe the name Rurima belongs rightly to the western cluster of three hummocks, one of which is isolated at high tide, while a fourth hummock at the east end, quite separated from the rest, has been called Moutoki on the authority of the late W. G. Mair. Yours etc. v B. SLADDEN. (We thank our correspondent for his information and have no doubt but that his version of the spelling of the name of the islets is correct. Ed.)

C. Perenara? We thank you for your lengthy letter, which however we feel is unsuitable for publication in a newspaper. We suggest that it would be an excellent article for a religious periodical or magazine. Ed.