BLACK RECORD.
Sir,-I am indebted to "Audax II." and to John F. Johnson for their sane contributions to this controversy. One could wish that the opposition showed more intelligent perception and less racial hysteria. There are none so blind as those who will not see. My arguments, unconditioned by my anonymity, still remain unanswered, as do those of my supporters, because there is no rational answer to them. No one can deny that Sir Robert Vansittart, through Black Record, tries to prove that to be German connotes some inherent -moral disability, setting the inhabitants of the Reich apart from all other peoples. We agree with E. A. W® Smith that Sir Robert does not propound a racial theory as does Goebbels, but if his attitude to Germans is not racialism of any equally grubby variety then the word has no meaning. Mr. MacBeth sees nothing ludicrous in a Diplomatic Adviser whose advice is not taken. I would point out that the foreign policy to which Sir Robert took no public exception led the greatest nation on earth to the verge of almost irretrievable disaster, and that policy was characterised by shameless trucking to the Fascist powers. Does Mr. MacBeth know, or has he forgotten, that Sir Robert was associated with Sir Samuel Hoare in formulating the Hoare-Laval peace proposals? Sir Robert’s record of appeasement goes back a long way, and unless my opponents are willing to, or capable of, answering these criticisms, common-sensibly, they
waste paper.-
AUDAX
(Auckland),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 4
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