Sir: I happened to see your article on Mr Powell
and the Director of Conservative research. It occurred to me that if every public library that took the New Statesman and/or New Society took The Spectator, your circulation would be considerably increased.
Who is read most often of the exponents of Tory views? Do we see the publications of the research department on the railway bookstalls? Everyone in England is about to have a chance to take part in the referendum. Mr Cosgrave does not have to give credit to any Tory for this but Tory supporters' memories are good enough not to forget.
Nor do Tory workers forget that the Member for Wolverhampton told the Prime Minister in January 1974 how to avoid a strike.
I was in the Midlands in the 1970 election period. Who are the people to whom Mr Cosgrave should give credit for the majority? The sooner Mr Cosgrave gets out the daily papers and Midland daily papers for the days of the campaign from the National Library at Colindale — the better for England.
Does Mr Cosgrave now support Peter Walker, who in 1961 in the Times declared against the Treaty of Rome?
Enoch Powell was not at Southampton or Waterloo when the first boatloads and trainloads of immigrants arrived to do what Whitehall and the elite would not pay the British a proper wage to do. However, it is to his credit that he did speak and that it was a Tory who spoke. Similarly, this country has not really, until recently, looked back. from Henry VIII's Act of Parliament of 1533 and the ending of Edward the Confessor's follies. It is the Tories who are in the van to answer the referendum.
As land transport costs and populations rise, so the errors of the Treaty of Brussels and the spectacle of a shaking former Prime Minister at the ceremonies with Mr Heath are brought home. We can be like the Swiss or the Norwegians over trade but regain our freedom; the choice is coming — let it be wholehearted, as it is already in Wales, Ulster and Scotland, it seems.
Russell Morris 12 East Terrace, Budleigh Salterton, Devon
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