PRELUDIN
Stg,—You are perfectly entitled to your odd little campaign for the free sale of potentially dangerous, habit-forming drugs. (Even if they were less harm- ful than alcohol, that seems to me--who am not a teetotaller---no reason whatever to reject medical advice that they should 1*-put on prescription.)
And (though 1 personally 'regret that you do not take a more civilised view) you are entitled, too, to be as contemptuous as any advertising agent about • the admirable and public-spirited work of the Advertising InquiryCommittee.
But you are surely not entitled • to mislead your readers by calling it my 'own pep-group in the House of Commons.' Neither Sir Henry Turner, the chair- man, nor Mr. Christopher Hollis, the treasurer, nor any of the. members of the committee or bodies work- ing with it are 'mine,' and only a very small minority of the members are Members of the House of Commons.
So perhaps you .could now re-read your Advertisers' Weekly, take a look at the AIC's repre- sentations to the Mcilony ,Committed on Consumer Protection (released this week) and think again.— Yours faithfully,
House of Commons, SW I
FRANCIS NOEL-BAKER
[We regret the slip which led us to suggest that the A1C worked in rather than through Parliament. But Mr. Noel-Baker is himself misleading in saying we have campaigned 'for the free sale of potentially dangerous, habit-forming drugs.' That is untrue : we have simply urged that if people like Mr. Noel-Baker are worried about drug addiction they should concen- trate on the most widespread and dangerous habit- forming drug, alcohol, rather than add to the pub- licity that has already been given to the relatively unimportant Preludin.—Editor, Spectator.]
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