ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA.

Evening Star, Issue 21744, 12 June 1934, Page 3

ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA.

TO THE EDITOR, '

Sir, —The Welfare League might' at least have the courtesy to answer its correspondents on one subject before it starts, on a fresh subject. Why does it persist in playing this game of tip »ml run? When it prates of patriotism does it mean patriotism to vested interests* and particularly financial interests? I am glad to see the league has had a change of heart, and admits that Stalin has a sane policy of peace and commerce, backed by an army strong enough to defend her trade—a totally different policy from an army strong enough to annex the Transvaal or force opium on the Chinese. I heard no protest from the league when Britain remitted £780,000,000 war debt due from France and Italy, but insists on the British worker, both Home and colonial, being forced to pay to the uttermost farthing. I can promise the league, if the Government reverses the process and gives me the £15,000 that the racing clubs got last year, and gives the said clubs the 17s 6d that I get to keep five, I will become an ah-, solute jingo, but the net result will oe the same, as the clubs will then become Bolshevist. The league says "if they showed one-quarter the goodwill for their own country and its actions that they do for the other fellow they would make desirable British citizens.” Well now, that is just the point; it is just because the other fellow at a Public Works camp in April, 1928, got one penny for a month’s work itter paying transport and cookhouse, rnd at this time the league was worrying about the cruel dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia, that ] don’t feel so patriotic. The penny and pay envelope were held up in Parliament by Mr P. Fraser and offered as a souvenir to the Minister of Public Works as a. momenta of his Administration. (See ‘Hansard,’ volume 217, page 68.) If the League is anxious to stop any publicity, either “pro” or “anti,” it lias something to hide, and that is the

publicity it neither can nor will at any time answer. It has been challenged time and again to open debate, which it refuses to accept.—l am, etc., Popoffski. June 11.