Where Honour is Due
SIR,—The Prime Minister has announced that an 'honours list' for industrial achievement is to be compiled based upon US custom. The first recipients should be the US aerospace companies for their great achievement in selling Phantoms, Polaris and
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CI30 to the British government, when our own aerospace industries are being denied existence. Such an award would be most fitting for seven years of persistent US effort to deprive Britain's industry of its most valuable markets.
Selling aircraft, electronics and missiles to short- sighted Britain is commensurate with marketing refrigerators to the Eskimos, or fur coats to the West Africans, and is deserving of the very highest praise; and, we must not be narrow-mindedly pre- judiced by lengthening unemployment queues or increased trade gaps; an award for the export of our brains and skills should not be ignored.
L. SEFTON
Managing Director
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