THE EXETER HALL MEETING.
(TO TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
seldom write to the papers to correct the multitudi- nous lies with which a certain section of the Press is filled whenever it touches on any " facts " connected with South Africa. I only write to you now because of your conspicuous fair-mindedness to those who are opposed to your political views. In your issue last week in one of your paragraphs you write : "Exeter Hall, where a mob broke up a meeting convened by ticket." The meeting at Exeter Hall was not broken up, but concluded an hour or more after the attempt to break it up had failed, in perfect quietude. No doubt you took this statement from one of the Rhodesian organs, but it is no more true than the most of their statements in regard to South Africa. They can lie with perfect impunity in regard to what occurs in Cape Town or Johannesburg, but it
is a mistake to lie in regard to what takes place in the Strand.
Hon. Sec., " Stop-the-War" Committee.
National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S. W.
[Does it not suggest itself to Mr. Crook that he would hardly be so violent in a sound cause P—En. Spectator.]
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