Trading with the Enemy A. Edkins, David Kuhrt The Law
in Action 'Frustrated'
Mr. Lloyd's Wicked Alternatives
Dr. Murdo Mackenzie
Ronay Rushes In Egon Ronay The Scottish Economy Roderick Macdonald Taking German Lighty Dr. Walter G. Hesse
Voluntary Service
Professor John W. Harvey and others
Celestial Infancies H. B. Levin Last of the Viceroys Leonard Mosley Family Planning Elizabeth Mitchell Is It Horrid? Peter Roland Clare Hollingworth Mrs. E. B. Croivther Draught Beer Rev. Austin Lee Do-It-Yourself Publishing Hilary Rubinstein Dylan Thomas Paul Potts
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY SIR, It is hard to reconcile the publication of Mr. FitzGibbon's calculatingly unpleasant article with the general policy of your journal; in the past you have wisely left such mixtures of malice, nonsense, half-truth and smear to the daily press.
In the first place, surely it is common knowledge that during 'hot' wars trading with the enemy goes - on through the intermediary of neutral countries; if this is remembered, the hypocrisy of Mr. FitzGib- bon's horror is apparent, and the type of article he is writing clearly exposed—once again we are being exhorted to tear up our Toistoys and towkick our Chows; once again we are being invited to accept the 'cold war' as a glorious crusade and to rub shoulders with glib pen-happy patriots, such as Mr. Fitz- Gibbon, who seem to exult in it (it is, of course, a perfect war for chair-borne generals and psycho- logical warfaring staff-officers!).
And once again we of the West are assured that we are more 'moral' than the Communist world; in the face of recent history, such an accusation is hard to bear. Was it this morality that chose to drop man- kind's experimental atom bombs, not on the moral Western murderers of six million 'Yids' but on an inferior yellow race in the immoral East?
Perhaps Mr. FitzGibbon is joking; after all, if he were serious he could, with a few similarly dedi- cated cold co-belligerents, infiltrate the granaries of the Western world and impregnate the grain destined for China with rat poison.
8 Chesterfard Gardens, Hampstead, N W3
A. EDKINS
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