POP GOES THE POLL SIR; Like Mr, Alan Brien, I
was startled by .the figures of 57 per cent approving of the aims of the Aldermaston March and 33 per cent approving of the March itself, principally because of the relation- ship between the two figures. I find it very difficult to see what people can have imagined they were being asked, in order to account for the relative percentages. If I had been asked these two questions, I should unhesitatingly have answered 'No' to the first, in that I dissent from the policies specific to the movement. The second would have caused me more difficulty,' brit I should have been inclined to answer 'Yes,' on the grounds that it is probably a good thing that those who hold those views should stand up for them publicly in this way. Obviously those who were asked interpreted the questions quite differently. Did many of the 57 per cent take the 'aims' of the March to be just 'Peace' in a vague way? What is the use of questions so ambiguously phrased?
J. C. MAXWELL King's College. Durham University
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