Technology : the breaking point
LETTERS
From K. L. Kelly, Thomas M. Disci?, D. E. Folkes, S. R. Shendy, Gilbert Wood, Sir Christopher Masterman, M. S. Shaw, E. Greet, R. S. McElhinney, P. H. Muir.
Sir: I write as a townsman who feels just as strongly about the desecration of our countryside as others of your correspondents and readers who are in rural communities. As a member of the executive committee of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, I know with what tenacity, in spite of frustrations and lack of public
awareness in support, the CPRE has kept up the battle to preserve what is good and to create new amenities from essentially intruding, but nationally important, developments such as roads, airports, etc.
Doubtless countrymen in their turn deplore the ravaging of our towns in the name of progress. This is a combined operation of equal importance to town or country dwellers and surely the first essential is to rouse every thinking person to the realisation of the dreadful danger which threatens our countryside. The reference in your columns to this problem highlights the situation which con- fronts us all.
Individual protests and arguments, however
urgent and powerful, do not produce the force which comes from a 'united front.' Organisation is strength and that is why I, for one, have con- centrated my personal protest in helping the CPRE in its work for the whole environment of our in- comparable town and countryside.
The SPECTATOR deserves everyone's thanks for emphasising this national crisis.
K. L. Kelly 13 Magdalene House, Manor Fields, Putney Hill, London SW15
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