TTo the Editor of the "Norra-Curya "Day News" Sm—A Reuters message from London in your this morning's issue ts that "a total of 110 mayors e signed an appeal to the governts of the world to protest against bombardment of open towns, and Canton." (The belated Fahce of the appeal is explained is only a little over two months ince they were digging trenches in Eondon parks, and the people were d to go to the nearest depot for fitting of gas masks. In other during that critical period in "the last week of September, the inhabitants of London and indeed of e whole of England were being spared to expect, in the event of outbreak of war, not only ttering bombs from enemy aircraft, the more terrible and insidious n of death: poison gas that blights living thing it reaches.
Here are named but two of the diabolical forms-of death which European natio ating highest civilization afd culture—Ready to hurl at each other at very first hour that war is red. In the stark realism of what place Nas humaneness? To whom shall the ast' protest be eldressed?
"Lord Riddell has told how during Great War the question of out-was on one occasion discussed h Lord Kitchener, who paid no lution to such things. Kitchener "What is the oot of discussing incident? 'AIT X is' "an ea their return?—a very nightmare of mock-Communism gone crazy, and with promise of more terrible di-master than Wariever could have made, to the very fabric of their countries? And, was there any other practical social remedy to this social disorder than by meeting the then reigning crinet mobocracy by Socialism armed—ca it Facism or Nazism?
And what they have accomplished is before us. And were it not for their existence, with what could Mr.
Chamberlain, and those who think with him, have accomplished in the way of European appeasement? And Nor HorrrUL asks what had the Rome-Berlin Axis contributed?
Then again, what does Britain herself—and so, her Empire—owe for its existence to this Axis to serve.as a wall (and a cheap-ore, since she paid and pays nothing for i), between herself and Red Russia?
But, on the other hand, what has England—the ceaseless critic of them—contributed? Merely the Munich Agreement? And could even that have been possible with the Axis 1.on-existent, and the Red bear laying prone across Europe and dipping its rea paws in the waters of the Channel? And England herself in turmoil?
Perhaps a thought for Mr, Roosevelt "also. But this was the very meum of Trotsky.
ven this lite, with a little stud; before one writes Sangbai, Dec. 9.
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