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Sir-No doubt you wish to end this correspondence, but I should be obliged if I could reply to the letter in which "Audax" reiterates his contention that permanent officials should resign if and when their advice is ignored by Cabinet or any particular Minister. In 1935, the Labour Party took over the government of the Dominion with a policy opposed in many ways to that of the previous Government. Now it is fair to assume that the political opinions of the civil service are divided in the same proportion as opinion in the electorate as a whole, and that being so, both Governments must have received advice which was not acted upon. Yet not one of the heads of departments has resigned on the score of policy, so far as I am aware, nor would any sensible man expect him to. I am not in the confidence of the British Cabinet or Foreign Office, as "Audax" appears to be, so I cannot say whether Sir Robert Vansittart was responsible for the Hoare-Laval policy, but I would refer "Audax" to Virginia Cowle’s Looking for Trouble (pages 105 to 107), for proof of Sir Robert's antiappeasement attitude, and of how he was removed in 1937 from his position as head of the Foreign Office, and practically side-tracked. As for the mass cruelty of the Germans, could better proof be provided than their actions at the present time? In spite of the "boldness" of your correspondent’s pen name, he still abstains from signing his real
name:
W.
MACBETH
(Christchurch).
(If Audax wishes to reply he may do so. Otherwise this ence is closed.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 121, 17 October 1941, Unnumbered Page
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