A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
IFIND it easy to undeistand why many of my compatriots want, and always have wanted, to own some land of their own, but very difficult, to understand—save in purely psychological terms—the theorists who want to take away their right to do so. These people, who, though talented, appear to me not to know the facts of life, did not have much of a run for their money at Margate. This can hardly, I think, have been because M. Khruschev, puzzling over the reasons why under a system of collectivised agriculture on nationalised land there are fewer cattle in Russia than there were in 1916, has decided that one reason is the lack of incentive which goes with State ownership; and I suppose that highly articulate demands for the nationalisation of the land will continue to be heard.
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