THE LABOUR PARTY AND THE TURKS. [To TER EDITOR OP
THY "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am 'told—I do not know with what justification—that the Labour Party are dead opposed to the Turks, and will not
tolerate even the association of anyone connected with them with the work of charity to relieve the destitute and starving of this afflicted nation. Anyhow, I venture to appeal to those who welcomed this slaughter and suffering as ushering in the millennium in Eastern Europe, at least to raise their voice against the cruelty and barbarism of the policy which seeks "to extend the area of freedom and good government," to use the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in those regions by the extermination or expulsion of their inhabitants, whose only sin is that they profess a different faith from the invaders. If Liberal England can tolerate this medieval method of introducing "good government" in the provinces forcibly acquired from Turkey, then I can only say, God help the Christian nations who require to create a bond, of amity between their fellow-subjects of different races and 2 Cadogan Place, S.W.
[We cannot believe that any body of Englishmen desires the extermination of the Turk, or even his expulsion from Europe as an individual. What we and many Englishmen desire is a very different thing—the putting an end to the government of Christian European provinces by the Turks. For such a task they have proved thems elves utterly unfitted.—En. Spectator.]
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