Sir: In reply to R. L. Travers (Letters, July 7)
I am not an adherent of Mr Enoch Powell, but someone with simi lar views to your other correspondent, Norman Henry, If the former would write to the Common Market Sa feguards Campaign, 55 Park Lane, WI, he or she can find out just how little people in the other EEC countries like living under the totalitarian rule of the Brussels Commission. For instance, property values are sky-high, and comparatively few can afford to actually own a home to the same extent as ourselves (until we were forced into the EEC). R. L. Travers should remember that the other EEC countries were conquered or liberated (whichever word you prefer) by the United States and ourselves, with the former assum ing the role of arch-investor and arch controller. The atmosphere of government over the last three years in this country, especially the cool usurpation of the constitution of Mr Heath and his adherents is an echo of what had to be accepted in 1945 and afterwards by a broken Germany and a slightly bruised France, with the latter rejoic ing in a historically sentimental (largely spurious) attachment to the United States and encouraged by the latter in the belief that the French abject surrender to Germany was somehow "glorious."
Parisians however are in the same condition as ourselves at the present time, for just as " parliament" is to be flouted about Maplin and Kentish people are not to be consulted about the Channel Tunnel, Parisians have been informed (with much less serious consequence but just as dictatorially) that a skyscraper development is to be allowed to go up, in spite of protest from many people, including some of the most eminent, so spoiling a much prized vista in that bomb undamaged city. The Russians are reported as saying that Britain's contribution to the allied war effort was negligible: the report may not be true of course; with an active Fifth Column operating in this country, one, needs to regard any pro nouncement as suspect. It does accord however with the attitude continually taken by the United States. How many young Americans really understand that American fortunes were made on the danger, tremendous hardship and " inconvenience " of providing bombing practice and a rocket target for German forces twenty miles away in collaborationists' France, and a base for the Normandy invasion? How many Americans, young or old would be prepared to accept anonymous government by a multi-national business clique in another country? If R. L.
Travers really believes that EEC countries are sovereign states and that an assembly of time-serving nonenti ties has the same importance and significance as an elected parliament of legislators, known by name (and face) to their constituents, no amount of "evidence" will make him (or her) realise the illegality and injustice of the secession of the sovereignty of an undefeated people to its erstwhile enemies, controlled mainly by an ally whose success was most definitely based on their steadfastness and determination.
M. J. Wordsworth 3 Martindale Close, Canterbury, Kent
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