24 AUGUST 1951, Page 14

Sin,—When Lt.-Col. Pelly writes that individual freedom is incom- patible

with social justice, that is tantamount to saying that social justice cannot exist apart from individual slavery. Of course, both statements are absurd, unless it is. explainecrwherefreedom ends and slavery begins. - That is where the Conservatives can give some help to Lt.-Col,. Pelly,- who may then begin to realise that freedorn of the individua) is not the lost cause he hopes it to be.—Yours truly, JOHN H. INSKIP. The Chantry, Abbot's Leigh, near Bristol.