22 MAY 1936, Page 22

" SOCIAL SANCTIONS "

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sue—I am one of those who maintain that the collapse of the Abyssinian resistance is not an adequate reason for withdrawing sanctions. But if the British Government will do nothing is it not possible for the British people to do something ? Are we as a nation to forget the Italian atrocities as soon as the issue has ceased to be a profitable headline in the newspapers ?

I submit that if a concerted ostracism of Italy were to be organised it could be made an effective instrument in bringing home to the Italian people the enormity of their crimes.—