SIR,—May I, as one of the migrants from the North,
to whom Charles Curran refers in his article on the New Estate, be permitted to voice an opinion?
His assertion that 'the North Country settler acts rather as a political poultice to his Welsh neighbours' is really too fantastically grotesque and preposterous to merit a reply, but it must nevertheless be refuted, and I, as one of the north-country settlers in Middlesex can easily give him the lie. The hardships and adversity and grievous poverty endured in the disastrous 1930s are, I can assure him, not one whit for- gotten. Though perhaps less vociferous than our Welsh neighbours, our memories are equally bitter. Furthermore, his assertion that the Socialist Party both banned and boycotted the Jarrow Hunger Marchers, when those same marchers were led by none other than Miss Ellen Wilkinson herself, is at once seen to be com- pletely false.—Yours faithfully,
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