and there are no penalties attached to offenders.
Once more the time-lag, that terrible spectre in humanitarian reforms, is painfully in evidence, and, with this mutilation of the provisions against oil pollution, we are faced with the sad, inescapable truth that it is possible for human beings to agree on a general principle, but that the practical application of the principle itself raises every callous contradiction, to the detriment of the reform and the neglect of the poor victims it is sought to help.
It would appear, then, that tortured sea- birds by the thousands are to be sacrificed day and night in the same old unpardonable way only because the experts and statesmen have not the courage to agree on any opera- 4ive date for the reform, or on adequate methods of enforcement.—'ours faithfully, JULIET GARDNER 23 Holden Road„ Southborough, Tunbridge Wells
[A formula for an operative date and methods of enforcement were laid down for the Convention. It is not suggested that either are adequate, but nor is it true to say that they do not exist.—Editor, Spectator.]
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