The Use of Land
The Lords debate on land requisitioning succeeded in making the issue between individuals and the State even plainer than the Crichel Down case had made it. Old Socialists and old Tories may well rub their eyes to find a Socialist peer urging that maximum food production should be the paramount consideration in the disposal of compulsorily acquired land and a Tory peer arguing that broader economic and social principles. including individual liberty, should govern the matter. But it is only one more instance of the plain fact, which is so worrying to the left wing of the Labour Party. that nowadays it is the Tories who attempt to face all the intellectual prob- lems of the complex modern economy and the Socialists who try to avoid them through the use of old formulae.
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