SIR,--It is by now pretty generally agreed among thinking people
that the prevention of nuclear war is the transcendent issue of our time.
To bring it to the forefront of the present election campaign is therefore vital, This can best be clone. I think, by pressing all candidates to state publicly and unequivocally whether or not -they believe in uni- lateral nuclear disarmament by our country, includ- ing the denial of British air and missile bases to other powers, and would support that policy if elected to Parliament, if necessary by voting against their own party.
All electors who believe that unilateral nuclear dis- armament is the right and proper course to follow should, I believe, not vote for those candidates who refuse to support it or will not state their position, even though it meant abstention from voting.
But mere abstention, which might reasonably be interpreted as apathy, is not enough. All who intend to follow this course should inform their candidates accordingly and, if there is no candidate for whom they can vote, deliberately spoil their ballot papers with appropriate wording.—Yours faithfully.
H. A. J. NIAR I IN 23 De Freville Avenue, Cambridge
SIR,—Before the General Election is upon us may we not be rid of a form of soliciting which 1 for one find more irritating than any provided for in the Street Offences Act?
I refer to those harpies who, at General Elections, squat outside polling-stations and accost innocent voters demanding, impertinently, their names and addresses.
These creatures are, I believe, employed by politi- cal organisations. The spirit of the election laws demands that party politics be kept away from polling-stations.—Yours faithfully,
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