A BOMB IN THE POCKET
Sut,—Dr. Jacks asks, "How is it possible for two parties to negotiate on a basis of mutual confidence and to co-operate in that spirit, if one has an atomic bomb in his pocket, and the other has not ? ". He should con- tinue his catechism a little further. How is it possible for two parties to negotiate and co-operate, as he suggests, when one is continually enlarg- ing its borders by treachery and cruelty, and the other is busily engaged in handing real self-government to millions in India, Burma and Ceylon ? How is co-operation possible when one of the two continues to meet any
serious argument by a continuous outpouring of slanders and lies? How is it possible when one is out to promote its aims by spreading freedom, plenty and happiness, and the other realises that its aims can only be promoted by increasing misery, tyranny and squalor, and which " lays its most fertile eggs on the putrescence of human suffering " ?
Is it not obvious even to the " enlightened " that co-operation is flatly impossible, and ought to have been recognised as impossible from the first ? Have our " enlightened " lecturers recognised it ? They give
no sign of having done so.—Yours faithfully, W. YORKS BATLEY. 15 Keswick Road, Boscombe, Hants.
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