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Torrington Desmond Donnelly, MP Automobilia John Gloag, H. M. Malies Khrushchev and the Bomb Christopher Driver Converted Vans and Purchase Tax B. A. Hobson,
Maurice Nockles
Public Opinion Polls William Gregory Sakiet Get, Stoll Good Coffee D. F. Bowie Cavalier Treatment A. Comerford Montessori and the Rlght Boot Jean Howard
TORRINGTON SM.—Mr. Henry Kerby in his wrath over Torrington has written as fine a piece of old-fashioned Bevanism as I have read outside the pages of Tribune. But as theye are some flaws in his argument may I offer some mild advice?
F:rst, Mr. Kerby's cry for pure doctrine is not practical politics in Britain—for a Tory. In our coun- try, where roast-beef politics are over and Fascism gets no support, you can only appeal to the extrem- ists if you are the Party of the Left, with its traditional background of idealism. Toryism's mass appeal is as the reasonable realists,' acting as 'a restraining in- fluence,' with 'good administration.' When the Tories do none of these things they get kicked out.
Secondly, Mr. Kerby should spare a glance for the traditional British ruling class—his ideas ought to make some appeal there. Alas, they are shattered, their morale is gone. They have never recovered from bearing the news that Sir Anthony Eden had flown off to Goldeneye. And if Mr. Kerby does not believe me, he should get himself invited to dinner by Lady Pamela Berry.
Finally, Mr. Kerby should study the new techno- professocrats. They are multiplying fast. Some of them may be liVing actually under the castle walls at Arundel. Economically they owe their position to oo one but themselves; politically they have no traditional loyalties. By inclination they would like to vote for a liberal Tory Party, led by Mr. lain Macleod; or a tory Liberal Party, bossed by Lady Violet Bonham Carter. Recent by-elections have shown that they could not care less which.—Yours faithfully,
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