[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR-1 • Sm,—As a constant
reader of The Spectator I am glad to see your columns open to all varieties of opinion, but I do not think that many of your readers will derive much help or satisfaction from the article by Mr. Rowse in your issue of Die 31st ult.'on the question of "What shonld we fight for? " The gist of that article appears to be that war is to be made a matter of party politics and is only to-be resorted to, even for the defence of our country and Empire, if it will thereby
promote the interests of the Socialist -Party. - His description of the present Government as a " collection of crocks and incompetents " is merely vulgar abuse, which, however fitting it may -appear in some Socialist publications, is hardly appropriate to the pages of a serious paper like `The Spectator.
litakeusirig the Government of having gone back on their obligations in regard to Abyssinia, Mr. 'Rowse ignores the 'two governing, factors with which they were faced. First, ' the fact that in the absence from the League of the U:S.A.
- and Gerthariy, economic sanctions would not be - made effectitre ;' and second, that if our Government had taken the only means to make them so, they would have run thd.risk- '. almost' the "certainty--of plunging this country -into war in which we -shthild have stood alone, and for which, thanks largely to- Socialist propaganda, we were wholly unprepared. The Whole trend of Mr. Rowse's article shows- that, had that happened, he would have been among the first to accuse the. Government of having broken the promises,, which they made during the ,Last General Election, to work for the preservation 'of the peace of EurOpe.—Youis faithfully,
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