LOYALTIES LTD.
SIR,—In your leading article of September 19 you say, 'It is better to be disloyal and dishonoured than dead.'
I am appalled that a once responsible journal should preach such an immoral doctrine—surely the antithesis of all that Great Britain with its Christian tradition stands for.—Yours faithfully,
I !ALFORD REDDISH
Crown House, Rugby
[The statement which Sir Hal ford Reddish quotes should be read in its context. We were refer- ring to the numerous occasions when British govern- ments have been, compelled to be disloyal and dis- honourable—in the sense of having to break promises —in order to bring to an end senseless strife, terror- ism, and destruction. This happened in Ireland, and in India: it may well have to happen again in Cyprus and in Jordan. The Americans are now faced with a similar predicament in the Far East. In the circum- stances in which they now find themselves, through their own foolishness, it is indeed 'better that they should be disloyal and dishonourable—to General Chiang—than dead.—Editor, Spectator.]
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