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Doctor in the House J. B. Ashe Illegitimacy L. Getz Britain and South Africa Brian Beedham, Margaret Roberts
STEEL NATIONALISATION SIR,—Many of my colleagues on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons will be grateful to Mrs. Eirene White for her forthright and authori- tative letter concerning the late Sir Henry Spencer; it answers once and for all a question we have asked ourselves, namely, under whose influence was it that the Government decided not to denationalise Richard Thomas and Baldwins in 1960 at a time when this was a perfectly feasible operation and one to which the Conservative Party seemed committed by its elec- tion manifesto. While it is not surprising that the managing director of a great industrial concern should prefer to obtain the funds he needs from the public purse rather than to submit to the discipline of the market, the failure to denationalise Richard Thomas and Baldwins led inevitably to the extension of nationalisation by the purchase of Whiteheads.
There is food for thought here that ought to be 'digested by those who now seek to run nationalisation as an election issue.
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