Sir: Will Waspe says rightly that artists on the whole
tend to oppose the Common Market. This, possibly, is because of their standard of values, In Agnes Mure Macckenzie's Robert Bruce King of Scots there is a memorable passage on the English knight at Bannockburn who, knowing all was lost, said, as both Scots and English testify: "I am not used to flee and will not now" and charged the Scots fighting among the mêlée until he died. His death, though perhaps useless, is one of the things that are perhaps less useless than they appear when weighed in the grocer's scales.
The Common Market is the triumph, if not the apotheosis, of the grocer's scales and England's surrender to their values. In the planned firework display to cele
brate it, perhaps we might have a gigantic set piece showing a pair of grocer's scale, with possibly one of those clever moving effects showing short weight or the putting of a little sand in the sugar.
Hugh Ross Williamson 193 Sussex Gardens, London W2
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