30 AUGUST 1924, Page 14

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Spectator has rather

strongly defended the treaty with Russia. May I call your attention to a letter in the Times last Saturday by Mr. Evelyn Hubbard ?

As a very regular reader of your paper, I simply cannot understand the way such a paper utterly ignores the moral view in this case.—I am, Sir, &c., [We loathe and condemn the crimes of Bolshevism as much as our correspondent does, but we cannot believe that criminals are cured by international boycott. Rather contact, with the world tends to redeem them. We do not refuse to trade with savage islands because the inhabitants are cannibals.—En. Spectator.]