SIR.—Mr. Hollis deplores the Conservatives' Suez behaviour and all that
it stands for, but he would prefer 'a Conservative rather than a Socialist Government over the next few years' because he also deplores nationalisation and controls' He is a thoughtful and independent-minded man, but surely he is guilty here of a quite startling insularity? World affairs arc incomparably more important than domeStic affairs, and in all that large department of world affairs which is concerned with coloured, or 'backward,' colonial or ex-colonial peoples the Labour Party's record has been incomparably better than the record of the Conservatives.
What Suez showed—what Central Africa con- tinues to show—is not only that Conservatives are still possessed by the Old Adam of national arro- gance, but that they have no understanding of what is happening in the modern world. It is surely very odd to prefer that party to their rivals simply because of a distaste for Labour's domestic economic policy. (For Mr. Hollis cannot be among those who believe that Labour's mild plans for domestic change will lead to totalitarianism.)—Yours faithfully,
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