HOW MUCH HELP TO RUSSIA ?
SIR,—The limit of one per cent, which Mr._I-iubert Griffith in your issue of September zoth places on the extent of Anglo-American aid to Russia is surprising, but I have no means of challenging this figure and have no wish to exaggerate. But the figure does not affect my point, which is that unquestionably Russia received much more aid in the second world war than in the first, as in the latter she received no help at all from the United States. This assistance must, therefore, I claim, be taken into account when 'stating, as Mr. Havelock did, that her people fought better than they had ever done before and that therefore the Soviet system when " weighed in the greatest of all balances " was not found wanting. As to an improvement in international relations, is this likely to be achieved in the long run by ignorance of facts? And have not our people the right to all possible information in regard to a system, praise of which they so often hear?—Yours faithfully,
KATHARINE ATHOLL.
66 Elizabeth Street, S.W.r. Chairman,
British League for European Freedom.
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