To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuina Dany News"
Sin—National Lotteries come and National Lotteries go, but no one seems to know, how the money collected, is exactly expended. There sre no accounts to show, expenses were so-and-so; not nome was so much, allocated to such-and-rueh. Curiosity prompt: his question and although brt suggestion. T make it in all tity in. the invarest of nublicit where does it ea, the ne'f. thet hat interests the Publ'c and my Thad suffered but in_my judement Trelend missed the rear opnortynity of auhmorcine her own minor individual elrime in the interests of the elntms of World. Civilisation pu, led by Mr. de Valera, has ever sine" been wondering in the deser* lof lost onmartinity. And m=nv tier eonla. fork thie dante, This comes shout that T and mane other En-lehman who know the Frete of the eve. regard Mr. de Vater xe ive sonkd be aesnssinator Jef that country which shove. others hae stood un for the rick! [of minnritise sind far the autenam™ the emollen at-ter How many neonle Jaome that hed Breet alt.
Shanehal, Nee. 1%. thad. to. free the asia orohiem PK Jwould have "been ettled be aver whelming force et once and for all time. Great "Britain, with' the Jexample of America before her in [Civil War against the disintegration of the United States, had am ple justification for dominate [ireland in the greater interests the British Commonwealth of Na~ tions as against the vastly smaller and less important Southern Irevind; eventually judge Great ]wrone in not having so done. That she did not do so was simply due to her democratic outlook weakening and then contiollirg her action, And let_me add I am proud of the Jconsistent action then taken and now pursued by my country.
But now another development is taking place. Mr, de Valera is re-to be questioning the right ireland to hold © out jon into a United Irish, sind ut pak in other words, having gained his own point, posing ax a democrat, with a minority of 2,000, }000 in some 40 to 50,000,000 people hho now proposes to dominate as a dictator to roughly about 1/3. of the people of Ireland, Having played upon the democratic spirit Jot Britain he now proposes to dominate a large minority of South ern Ireland and an almost comprehensive majority in Northern Tre and with the dictatorial spirit of Mussolini and Hitler. In the meantime Great Britain and North Tre~ land are consistently acting in ae cordance with the democratic spirit Snd will certainly not allow this spirit to be, suppressed or dominate ty any dictatorship from Sout ern Ireland, For the benefit of those who have not been to Northern Ireland La I may say that the desire there is, to dig a ditch separating themselves from Southern Ireland and to use the material so displaced to join up to Britain, And they are more than proud of the wonderfully igned Houses of Parliament—symbolic of Britain's intentions swith reference to a people different in race, different in. religion and different ju economic interests from that people who apparently throug their' representative would domi-ate and absorb them into an Trish Republic. We are, however, suspicious that tuis dictatorial spin by no means the attitude of the majority of the people of Southern wwe are only sorey th Southern Ireland should allow it~ if to be used by an individual te, off his own personal grudges.
I have written so far from my personal point of view and a Englishman: but as a citizo of the world my feelings agai Mr. de Valera are even more intense, For with his unforgiving personal attitude towards the country with whose intaves's Ireland inevitably linked, he is presenting the spirit of non-ce-operation, to sickening through luck spirit which is so neccesary if forces of disintegration, whick threaten eivisinntion, are to be suc cessfully combated. If Mr." de Valea, isnot enroful he will' down to history not only as th leader of some 8,000,000 people: me sisting on their supposed right ire respective of the necessities of 40. 000.000 people, but also as a sini relly and disintegration raphe in which will mot even be the soul. saving satisfaction of knowing that have gone down in the fight have, never-the-less by our valour that a botter th word with raft which Ireland has suffered in the est. No Englishmen will "deny there; but many will be doubtful if these' were greater than those lder which England suffered during the corresponding periods. Has roland anything worse to show than the child slavery of our Fac: tory System or the class-dominance in the rural districts of England? T personally doubt it. Admitti however, the injustices to Irelat jin the past, cannot the Irish people realize that in the eyes of every. Englishman these injustices were wiped out and a debit balance creat ed by the action of Ireland nob merely towards our own country but towards the greater cause of World Civilisation during the War par-d to start again with the cloam isto and to recognise that while 000 neorle must be consider the covsl rights of and interests not ovr Irish friends reciprocate by accepting the suggestion that while ithe rights and interests of 3.000, 000 people must be maintained the rights and interests of 40,000,008 Deop'e must also be taken into'ae-
Shanghai, Dee. 14,
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