Cockburn on Britain

Exception must be taken to Cockburn’s comments. The suggestion that overrun nations of Europe “collaborated placidly with the Germans” is an insult, as is the suggestion that Britain could easily have surrendered.

He does not know of the intense aerial bombardment to which Britain was subjected when it stood alone against those forces of evil, nor how it became bankrupt buying arms and ammunition from the U.S. to continue the fight. Nor does he know of the spontaneous and supportive acclaim with which members of the Royal Family and eminent politicians were greeted when they visited the heavily damaged areas.

After this lapse of time no doubt many more documents will be “found” to support Cockburn’s fiction.

C.G.L. MORLEY

Los Angeles