Letters to the Editor
The New Estate Charles Curran Burke or Gallup ? William Gregory The John Gordon Society Christine Thomson, A. Livesey, Peter Wildeblood, Helen Montgomery War Correspondents ' Cyril Ray Deus ex Machina P. J. D. Wiles The Altar W. I. Croome, Rev. John F. Bailey The William Temple Association M. W. Smart Nigerian Unity E. F. G. Haig Destitution Frank L. Carter THE NEW ESTATE Sir,—Mr. John O'Leary, the Borough Librar- ian of Dagenham, apparently disagrees (as he is entitled to do) with my opinions about the New Estate; but after studying the letter from him that you printed last week I am com- pletely unable to discover why. He assures me (a) that the• building of Dagenham had noth- ing to do with the motor trade and (b) that its standards of parenthood are 'generally high and on occasion heroic'. No doubt. But as the New Estate would say, So what? Neither assertion has the remotest connection with my article.
His letter, in fact, is an irrelevant trumpet blast on behalf of Dagenham—where, it seems, every prospect pleases and not even Mum is vile. Mr. O'Leary's pride in the borough that employs him does him credit. So far from wishing to speak lightly about his expenditure of his ratepayers' money on books, I applaud it; for Dagenham, where 38,000 people were so ill-instructed as to vote Socialist at the last election, is clearly in urgent need of books (and by books I mean, as I am sure Mr. O'Leary does, objects with stiff covers, not copies of Reveille).—Yours faithfully,
CHARLES CURRAN
London, WC2
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