CRITICISM OF BRITAIN
Mr Vernon Bartlett Replies
NEW YORK, October 26.
The magazine Life publishes a reply by Mr Vernon Bartlett, M.P., to Life’s open letter to the British people. Mr Bartlett writes: "Goebbels could not have drafted a letter better calculated to spread distrust between the two great nations whom the Fuhrer has made allies. Britain is the only country among the United Nations who took up arms against Hitler without being attacked. You join the chorus fcr a second front. Were you a member of such a chorus two years ago when we were so near defeat that not a single division in Britain was fully equipped and trained? “We are fighting for the Empire. Why not?” Mr Bartlett adds. “There must be some good in it as it has given law and security to vast areas of the globe until they have become politically adult. The independent dominions, with one exception, came to our aid spontaneously. I doubt if you are really so ignorant of the British as to believe that they are unresponsive to appeals to their decency, justice and generosity. If our Government were unresponsive we would seek to remove it.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24886, 28 October 1942, Page 5
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196CRITICISM OF BRITAIN Southland Times, Issue 24886, 28 October 1942, Page 5
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