12 JANUARY 1974, Page 4

Herculean task

From: Lt. Commander Noel PaulleY

Sir: It is doubtful if our country has been worse governed this century; Having debauched the currency an reduced its purchasing power to ah extent which is without parallel, the Government has sought to conceal its responsibility for the resultant inflation by blaming everyone, and everything' but itself. Worse, it has pretended that an inflation, of which it was the, anonymous architect, could be cure,' by price and incomes control: although, it well knew that such a policy woulo treat symptoms, and leave the cause untouched. Worse still, conflict which was all inevitable consequence of an arbitrarY• illiberal and impractical policy is novv, being misrepresented as subversion 01 our parliamentary democracy. Impeachment may now be outmod. ed, but the stench of the Augean 50: bles of Whitehall is such that it canno`,, be ignored. The stables must Is` cleansed.

gNou,el

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