23 OCTOBER 1959, Page 20

SIR,—Does not the result of the General Election look like

a victory for materialism? 'I will pull down my barns, and build greater and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul thou hast much goods laid up, for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry.' It looks as though the only chance for an alter' native party to gain a majority will be for it to go la for a spot of nobility, an appeal for costly integritY, the allocation of a proportion of the national income for the benefit of the world's half-starved peoples, and so on.

We need, as always, a radical alternative to Corr servatism based, as previously, on moral principle.' Yours faithfully.

HERBERT R. BARTOS

Bonham Rectory, Norwich, Norfolk