SIR,—The results of the election will doubtless give rise to
a number of different impressions. One of the chief impressions, I must confess, which it has made upon me, is that the British public, like the law, is a hass.
Although modesty and a suspicion that I might be prejudiced have hitherto prevented me from giving it public expression, I have, indeed, had a growing conviction to the above effect for a considerable number of years, due to the British public's refusal to take the advice I have offered it—with disastrous consequences to itself! In the case of the recent election, however, I feel that I can be quite impartial. Leaving out of account the Communist Party, the electorate were offered
three choices: a choice between the devil and the deep sea by the Labour Party and the Conservatives and, by the Liberal Party, quite a good and constructive alternative giving real promise of some restora- tion of that fast-vanishing blessing, freedom, in defence of which the war was supposed to have been fought. The Liberal programme had only two serious defects—the omission of monetary reform and a hankering after world government—but, as it can quite safely be assumed that the British public had not the intelligence to recognise them as defects, in this instance, they do not very much matter. The British public, however, rejecting outright by far the most enlightened statement of policy offered them, have come down with unusual enthusiasm and in almost equal numbers half for the diabolical and half for the marine! I may perhaps add that in writing disparagingly of world government it is not the ideal inspiring many of its supporters that I disagree with ; it is the technique whereby they hope to attain it.
—Yours very truly, BEDFORD. Crowholt, Woburn. Bletchley, Bucks.
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