TRUE PATRIOTISM
Lhe £ditor, The Listener. Sir.-May I gently suggest to Mr. E. E. Vaile that in attempting to suppress criticism of Britain he is not being a loyal friend of Britain? Surely even Mr. Vaile will not maintain that Britain never has done and never does do wrong? Who, then, is truly loyal to his country-he who recognises her misdeeds, draws attention to them, and so tries to prevent their repetition, or he who condones them or tries to pretend they were never committed? I hold that Britain’s honest critics are her most true patriots. Those who criticised Britain for allowing her Government to follow the disastrous peace-at-any-price policy which has now brought her to the brink of ruin, were truer patriots than those who never raised their voices to condemn the self-satisfac-tion, sloth, and complacency which made that policy possible. Mr. Vaile should read again the lines beginning "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour. England hath need of thee" and ask himself whether the poet was an "enemy of Britain." Yours etc.,
E.
SATCHELL
Auckland, June 5, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 52, 21 June 1940, Page 12
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182TRUE PATRIOTISM New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 52, 21 June 1940, Page 12
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