BRITISH RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA
'To the Editor of the SeucrAron.] SIR,—It saddens me almost beyond words to find the Spectator advocating the resumption of diplomatic relations with a Government which is openly and avowedly anti-Theistic and anti-Christian. If a man had murdered your brother and outraged your sister and was openly trampling upon everything that you held most sacred, no business advantage would induce you to enter into friendly personal relations.
God in His providence has permitted the Soviet Govern- ment to come into existence, and Great Britain is not the world's policeman. But for all that every man is a brother and every woman is a sister, and as a professedly Christian nation we can sternly and silently refuse to have anything to do with such a Government as that.
You may not like to publish this letter, but as an old reader and lover of the Spectator I wish you would. I feel sure thousands of your readers would sympathize with my protest.—I am, Sir, &c.. FREDERICK HAIGU. Woodroyd, Longsdon, Stoke-on-Trent.
[Our reasons for desiring the resumption of British-Russian diplomatic relations in the interests of European peace have been explained. The trade argument only influences us to a minor degree. Personal dislike, as far as we know, has never been considered a sufficient cause for severing diplomatic relations.—En. Spectator.]
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