Letters to the Editor
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Sir: The editorial treatment of my Lombard column in the Financial Times has been the subject of some comment in your paper that may have tended to create a misleading impression of what is involved. So perhaps you will allow me to clarify the position.
Except on one occasion, articles on the EEC have not been suppressed. The Subjects that have suffered this fate or severe censorship include: the use and abuse of American financial power; the implications of the Nixon pardon; the international financial significance of My Nelson Rockefeller's elevation to the Vice-Presidency; the inadequacies of the City; the role of the City's 'lobby': Mr Solzhenitsyn's views on Western Press behaviour; official connivance at the destruction of savings; nuclear Proliferation; uses and abuses of facts and figures; Mr Heath's incompetent handling of the miners' wage challenge; the Russo -American financial detente; the true nature of so-called 'moderacy.' lain grateful for the kind interest that Mr Patrick Cosgrave and some of your readers have shown in the matter. I am also indebted to you, Sir, for publishing one of the banned articles and thereby giving the public an opportunity to Obtain an insight into the nature of the struggle I am engaged upon to preserve My long-standing freedom to write an Independent daily column. There has been a lot of discussion about ensuring that the freedom of the Press is maintained at editor level, but almost none about other writers' meedom, within the same framework, to make known their views. As I tried to Show in the Financial Times as far back aS mid-1973, the freedom of the press belongs to us all.
C. Gordon Tether Hetherinstoke, Lawfords Hill Road, Worplesdon, Surrey
West with the most awful consequences if they fail to knuckle under. This surely is the most contemptible and repugnant use of propaganda, and The Spectator has performed a valuable service by printing it side by side with the realistic analysis of Mr Laffin.
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