THE REFERENDUM.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Has Switzerland the big industrial areas of England, where Communism may be comprehensible; if not defensible, and are you not rather optimistic as to the possible results of the Referendum in this country ? Do the electorate wish to be bothered every three months with postcards ? Having lately paid a year's subscription (for the first time) to the Spectator solely on the grounds that it stands for historic Constitutionalism, I am more than surprised to fmd you advocating that that erasure of British parliamentary growth, development and procedure, the Parliament Act, should be perpetuated. It is only the lucky advent of the Conservative Party at the recent General Election which has prevented Bedlam. 'As an adjunct on specific details, the Referendum might be very desirable, but as a substitute for the whole Constitution in its completeness and entirety have we not bad enough of sitting on the edge of precipices for the last ten years ? A Second Chamber, with a restraining but not unlimited power, seems to me the only antidote to that ceaseless anxiety which locks up capital, creates unrest by unemployment and consequent suppression of initiative. Frahm spare us such abdications.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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