Britain's non-role east of Suez
Sir: The SPECTATOR of 3 February, containing Mr Enoch Powell's 'Britain's Non-Role East of Suez,' only reached me yesterday. I read the article with an interest (although I dislike non-subjects) which diminished as I began to suspect that the author was bent on non-facing the issue. That suspicion became certainty when I had read the article to its end.
Apart from examining the symptoms of our national, or perhaps only governmental, illness, Mr Powell offered only generalisations and nothing specific as a remedy. His approach to the subject was that of a physician (who should certainly be struck off) who examines his patient, says, 'You are very ill, you need medicine,' and then goes away prescribing nothing. Perhaps Mr Powell having, to his own satisfaction, demolished Mr Mayhew will now tell us how Britain can 'save herself by her exertions and Europe by her example.' But from an ?AP whom I help to pay from my income tax I shall expect specific remedies and not vague par- liamentary generalisation. As an adherent of the Conservative party I look forward to what one of its more eminent MPS thinks, in unequivocal, posi- tive terms. I am tired of reading what the MPS we elect non-think.
C. R. A. Swynnerlon Fincha Las Chumberas, Alhaurin de la Torre,
Malaga, Spain
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