A noble cause
Sir: This month marks the centenary of the liberation of the Bulgarian people' from 500 Years of Ottoman oppression. It would be a Pity for this event to go unnoticed in your columns, since the first revelations of the terrible massacres taking place there were Made by the Spectator, followed closely by The Times and the Daily News.
Despite the denials of Disraeli that anything more untoward was happening there than might be expected in the normal conduct of a war, the revelations of your own Correspondent, and those of the two other Papers, alerted the British people to the truth, and soon Gladstone, William Morris and others were addressing meetings up and down the country, raising money to relieve the distress of those remaining alive and, in the case of Gladstone, writing a pamphlet Whose sale broke all records for such a publication.
This certainly was a case which revealed the power of the press to rouse the British People to play a more noble role than the British government of the day. Much of the credit was certainly due to the Spectator. Christina L.. Bartlett
Chairman, British-Bulgarian Friendship Society,
283 Gray's Inn Road,
London WC1
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