14 OCTOBER 1922, Page 2

We desire to support the Lord Mayor's appeal, almost empty

though we know the pockets of most people to be. We have no sympathy with those who would introduce political objec- tions. The fact that Soviet rule is a disgusting tyranny and that the Greeks have shown themselves to be vainglorious bunglers has really nothing to do with the cry of people who have had no power to control events and who may not even have known what was being done by their politicians. Many of the victims of the Russian famine are the most uncom- promising opponents of Bolshevism. Certainly the wretched peasants whose harvests used to be expropriated by the Bol- sheviks have better reason than anybody else for hatred and anger.