21 AUGUST 1964, Page 18

SIR,—We were exhilarated to read your leader 'The Outsiders' as

we think this is the first occasion on which a serious journal has pinpointed the crucial problem that faces the development of British in- dustry in the decades ahead. This term fits so ex- actly our own circumstances, that we have now adopted it as our own. We arc a group, composed of young entrepreneurs, all founders of their own businesses, whose basic common denominator is just the sort of professionalism you describe, a group who, furthermore, are tired of being regarded in certain quarters as 'dangerous and destructive.' We feel strongly that it is time that the nation as a whole realised that it is still on the shoulders of the dynamic young men that the future of this country rests. We are determined to make the country aware of these vital facts.

Surely it is ironic that it is to the Labour Party that we feel we can now look for most help.