CONSERVATIVE REBELS
SIR,—Miss Rathbone in her letter in your issue of July 28th hails with joy what she describes as " a revolt within the Conservative ranks at last," and, using that as a convenient peg upon which to hang another attack on the Prime Minister, speaks of the (wholly imaginary) danger of another Munich, and of " the abandonment to the aggressor of Abyssinia, Spain, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, and now, perhaps, China."
Really it seems that Miss Rathbone and her associates are ready to sacrifice their common sense to their consuming desire to attack Mr. Chamberlain, for it is a practical certainty that, had they had their way, we should already have been involved in wars with Italy, Spain and Germany, and " per- haps " Japan at a time when we were quite unprepared for any one of them.
In view of that fact it would be interesting if Miss Rath- bone would tell us (what I am quite unaware of) whether and how many times since the last election she has voted, along with the official Labour Opposition, against the provision by the Government of the armaments which were essential to the translation of her present warlike spirit into action.
I would suggest that she should read the letter from Mr. J. A. Spender, and the admirable article by Sir Evelyn Wrench, also published in your issue of July 28th, and that, having done so, she should follow that up by a careful study of Mr. Spender's article in the Sunday Times of July 29th.
These will show her that there are a good many important considerations which, in her eagerness to attack Mr. Cham- berlain, she appears to have overlooked.—Yours faithfully,
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