JUDICIAL SABOTAGE
Stn,—Let me assure Mr. H. A. Schabbel that Mr. Bevan's reference to " judicial sabotage of socialised services " did not pass unchallenged. On the contrary, as the official report shows (Standing Committee C— National Health Service Bill—Seventeenth Day, Col: 774), these words caused an immediate " interruption." They were promptly and severely criticised by Mr. J. S.-C. Reid, and in the ensuing Division the Govern- ment were defeated. If Mr. Schabbel will read the official report, he will realise what ought to be generally known, viz., that Parliamentary proceedings, particularly in Standing Committee, are scarcely reported in the daily Press at all. That may not be the fault of the Press, whose supplies of paper are drastically cut down.—I am, Sir, your obedient
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