MR. CURTIS AND FEDERATION
Stn,—In your issue of December 3rd you tell your readers that "the burden" of my open letter to Lords, Commons and Press "is a pontifical castigation of the Press for not devoting its limited space to discussing a constitutional departure—the complete federation of the units of the British Commonwealth." These words accurately state the case I have tried to make in my previous pamphlets, Decision, Action and Faith and Works ; but not in the "open letter." "The burden" of my open letter to Lords, Commons and Press is succinctly stated in the preface as follows: "The present failure of Parliament and Press to deal with, or even mention, the questions which govern all others—the questions whether our present resources are equal to the commitments we are undertaking and, if not, what steps can be taken to make them adequate to our commitments."
Your readers could only judge how far your description of my open letter is true or your comment just if they had its text before them and were able to read it. As I do not like to criticise people behind their backs, I had enough copies made to send to members of Parliament and to the Press. I still have a few over, and if any of your readers care to send me their name and address on a postcard, I will send them a copy.-1
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