Letters to the Editor
Referendum
Sir: In all the discussion which has taken place on the question of this country's continued membership of the EEC, there is one aspect of the matter looked. Over many centuries, Which appears to have been over Which appears to have been over the common law of England has gradually built up safeguards for the individual against the exercise of arbitrary power by the executive government, which are unequalled in any other country. The legal systems of most of the other member countries have their origins in Roman law, and are embodied in codes Which are designed. not to protect the rights or freedom of the individual against the state, but to facilitate the control of individuals by the state. 'Standardisation of laws' is one of the express objectives of the EEC. and this Process has already begun. The rule of law as it exists in this enuntrj. under which the executive itself and all its officers are subject to the restraints of the ordinary law of the land, has been considerably eroded in years, but it remains a unique recent yea nd very a great achievement. To jeoPardise it for the sake of material a benefits, real or (more probably) imginary, would be an act of folly almost heYond belief. Anyone who values the Protection against the every growing Power of the state which only the law can give need be in no doubt how to vote in the forthcoming referendum. R. E. Kitching 4 Ashfield, Wetherby, West Yorkshire Sir: Whatever whispers or open allegations are repeated in your columns about the source and size of the European Movement's funds, I trust You will publish the following facts. The European Movement has not any funds from and does not receive a foreign or European Community sources or by roundabout ways. What limited funds we have which, as I declared on Radio 4 on January 28. hav ry e now shrunk to less than E200,000, have come entirely from thousands of subscriptions and donations received I:rom supporters of the European cause in this country. Our accounts have always been published, whereas the anti-Market organisations have never done so. s„TheY plead poverty, yet appear to be EZPPorted by Mr Jack Jones, leader of TGWU, Britain's largest union, and nar Clive Jenkins, leader of the highest Paaid trade unionists in ASTMS. In ddition, as reported on the BBC, the iRsusksian broadcasting service to Britain ,-,rouearning a mass of anti-Market Paganda, prepared by Soviet economists and communist propaganda e_x_Perts. I trust the British public will re to recognise who is doing the rain-washing.
Director, The European Europe House. place,
London SW1 IA Whitehall
Europe House. place,
London SW1 IA Whitehall
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