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SIR,—Miss Marghanita Laski's venomous criticism of Nevil Shute's book The Far Country needs an answer from one who agrees that life in England today is quite intolerable for people who are sufficiently old-fashioned to prefer the decencies of life to the Socialistic rough and ready beastliness.
However, I for one refuse to be bullied in my own country, s(O I live out of it! But one need not go as far as Australia. The Republic of Eire still offers courtesy and kindliness to people who still long for the grace and ease of our childhood days when England was England, and not a miniature Soviet Russia. We English over here call ourselves "the Retreat from Moscow." We do not call ourselves " unpatriotic " to hanker after the things England once gave us but can do so no longer.—Faithfully yours, FRANCES SHEARER. Golf House, Inniscione, Co. Sligo.
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