Another case is provided by a lady of whom.most people know by this time, Mrs. Stan Harding. Mrs. Harding, was a journalist who went to Russia, where she was denounced by an American lady journalist as a British spy. The latter was undoubtedly anxious to either save her own skin or to obtain credit with the Soviet authorities, so she lightly sacrificed her colleague. Mrs. Harding spent a considerable period in gaol, and now can get no redress at all, although the charge against her was purely fictitious. Our Government can do nothing, and the American Governfment, to its shame, will not. Yet Mrs. Stan Harding each day and every day goes to the House of Commons and carries on her task of soliciting sympathy on her case. She is a woman of very great ability and has been told, even by her friends, that she should at all events devote herself to work while not dropping her cause. This she declines to Ho, iand) as a result she also is gradually getting into the position bf Inspector Syme, and in tine will, I am afraid, lose much of the sympathy which she now enjoys.
There are scores of people like this, who, I suppose, have not the moral courage, when they meet with lack of success in one direction, to devote their energies to another in which they might be able to build up their fortunes. They hug that while—over here, at all events, their grievances and they forget these may provide a nine days' wonder, they gradually cease to interest the public at all. Such people nearly always become in the Jong run specific cases for public compassion on the part of those who know them, but they never achieve any practical result in remedying their grievances. I suppose it has to do with the lack of moral fibre. If so, these many cases indicate that our national fibre must be weakening.
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