THE REST OF OUR LIVES
note that your correspondents accept the article " The Rest of Our Lives " in a recent issue with equanimity.
The writer of this article would no doubt lay no claim to gifts of prophecy.
If, at the end of this war, full reparations are demanded and extracted from the Germans over a long period of years, the burden of taxation will be considerably lightened. These reparations must be enforced and not allowed to go by default as was the case after the last war.
Many of us who returned from France in 1918 stated that if Germany was not policed for twenty-five years a recurrence of war was inevitable.
In the intervening years our politicians and supermen have been hoodwinked by a paranoiac dictator of low intelligence, and while they have discussed and debated he has acted.
Billions of German money which should have found its way into the coffers of our Treasury has been spent on armaments.
Psychologists and others are busy at the present moment endeavouring to dispel the fears and anxieties of individuals, many of whom are reduced to a state of chronic morbid anxiety by forebodings of the future engendered by needlessly pessimistic outbursts such as " The Rest of Our Lives." We are making and will make sacrifices, but we will face up to them cheerfully and in the spirit of those who gave their all for this country in the years 1914-1918.
During the " rest of our lives " we trust that this country will rid itself of the last decaying remnants of the pernicious and godless doctrine of Communism and that the avirile pacifist will at long last realise that his freedom has been bought by the blood of others.—Yours faithfully,
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