The “Great Betrayal” SIR: I would like to add a footnote to the matter of “the Great Betrayal” (October 2010). At the end of the war Australians were sending thousands of food parcels to Britain. On March 26, 1947, Ben Chifley (Prime Minister and Treasurer) moved the second reading of the United Kingdom Grant Bill. He said this Bill was to grant £25 million to the UK “as a contribution towards the costs of war incurred in the Pacific Zone. The UK is labouring under great difficulties today, because in the war it fought with unsparing will the battles of…