ACTION AGAINST BOMBING OUTRAGES
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—There is one method by which the mere impotent voter could be enabled to express his detestation of the bombing outrages in Spain and China. It involves one simple piece of legislation—if legislation can ever be said to be simple.
Let us have a law that all foreign goods offered for sale in this country (of course, including food stuffs) shall be marked with the country of origin and that all salesmen shall be compelled to draw his or her customer's attention to that origin at the time of the sale.
If, after that, the general public will not deny itself in order to boycott the authors of the bombing outrages, we shall know that the outcry is merely sentimental and shall deserve to live in a world unsafe alike for heroes and the unheroic. If, on the other hand, the offending countries are made to feel the draught, they will know it to be the spontaneous expression of the British nation as a whole and cannot attribute it to the clamour of this
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