KOREA AND REALITIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 99, 22 September 1950, Page 5

KOREA AND REALITIES

Sir,'- —It is like a shower in the desert air to find a voice raised realistically against the dangerous flirtations by our “leading lights” with U.N.O. and the sickening fawning on this Communistic inspired body, by the daily press! I would quote the Bulletin 12/7/50: Much of the lack of the patriotic fire is because in Australia (and New Zealand) is the significance that we are acting through U.N.O. whereas the fight which is now being fought in Korea is really part of a fight between an Asiatic barbarism led from Msocow and the British-speaking people. It is true that we must fight in Korea as must every civilised nation which values its future safety. But it is not true that we are fighting merely “at the disposal of U.N.0.” We are beginning to fight for ourselves as British subjects and because every advance of armed Communism adds to the danger which overhangs us. We have weakened ourselves both physically and morally by forming associations with, and making, ourselves “party” to Governments not of our own standards of stability and integrity. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the British Empire, where Socialism, so akin to International Communism in its beliefs and primary objectives has sacrificed national safety and the ideal of patriotism to the theory that any form of defence is an invitation to aggression. Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.