Ilk am Letters
Olwen Battersby Vernon Watkins. Bryn Griffiths, W. M. J. Alves
For Some Consumers Arthur Rau On Cricket and Chess J. D. Taylor Chess Problems Nicholas Marlin-Smith Megatons on the Motorway W. M. Newte
The Fifty-Year Rule
Professor Richard J. Hammond
Space for News • T. A. Brocklehank The 'Sun' J. Donovan Frank's Men Colin Shaw The War That Cannot Be Won Hashitn B. Arabia The Nationalists folo Davies An Elephant in the Dark Hugh Gordon Pollens
Rich and Poor Dylan Thomas RICH AND POOR
SIR.—'Judged by the standards of the world this is a rich country, and no electioneering speech- making can deny that'—so states your leading article. We agree. We never had it. so good! We are all right, Jack! There is no issue between us here.
What we do dispute is that this wealthy country of ours should add 4 per cent to the gross national product—and both manifestos promise this--while on the conservative estimate of the Food and Agri- culture Organisation more . than half the world's Population are undernourished, cannot read or write, and die too young. During the last decade the national income has increased by approximately 2.5 per cent; should not at least half of this further 4 per cent be sent overseas to feed the hungry and heal the sick and to help on the development which can ultimately bring fulness of life to all men? Should not a narrow nationalism be replaced by a world consciousness if the term 'modernisation' is to have its full meaning? Should we not demand that the evasiveness of all parties be replaced by. some definite commitment? We would then know how to vote!
OLWEN BATTERSBY Research and Field Worker War on Want, 9 Madeley Road, WS
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