Sir: The phasing out of C. Gordon . Tether by
the Financial Times'would mean that the last anti-Common Market voice in the national -press apart frorrsyour own, had been silencedlay the totalitarian EuroBrits (December 14). Well did Mr Heath say, on May 19, 1971, that• he looked forward tii—the EEC achieving "what Napoleon and Hitler failed to achieve."
We, the anti-EEC side, are unlikely to win any referendum with all the media and establishment against us; in the past, intensive pro-EEC propaganda combined with the usual suppression of our side has for a short period produced a small pro-EEC majority in the opinion polls. Again, Norway, with four million people, had an anti-EEC organisation with over Igo permanent staff and even so the referOndurn there was -only just won by our side. On the same basis, we would need an anti-EEC Organisation with over 1,500 permanent staff, and certainly we will be fighting more than that number.
There is no hope whatsoever that any of the anti-EEC bodies setting up even 1 per cent of that as things are, or of collecting the funds to do so. Happily, there is more than one multi-millionaire strongly identified with our cause. May I respectfully suggest to them that the coming referendum will probably be the last chance for a free Britain, and that a donation of I £500,000 would probably make the difference between victory and defeat. I don't suggest that the donor of such a sum just hands it over; let him run his own organization with it.
I know that millionaires never lack for advice on what to do with their money, but, I think that rarely could what is but a fraction of a much larger fortune be put, to such effective use in regaining our freedom, and should we lose, it is not likely that the gentlemen concerned would long be allowed to retain any of their money.
G. J. A. Stern 6 Eton Court, Shepherds Hill, London N6
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