SIR,- -Henry Fairlie's article last week on the Albert Hall anti-Common
Market meeting was the most vicious piece of woolly-minded democratic anti- democracy I have ever read.
lithee Earl of Sandwich believes what he says, it would be to his eternal discredit if he did not say it for fear of dying a political death.
If the leader of the Anti-ComMon Market Union happens to be called Smythe, he may still he a first- class man.
If all the leading figures in the movement are 'eager nonentities' they may still be better than languid celebrities.
If the names of the parties involved sound odd to Mr. Fairlie, has he considered how vulgarly self- acclamatory the names 'Conservative' and 'Socialist' sound?
If all the anti-Common Market movements are 'ugly fringe movements,' how would Mr. Fairlie have fared if the Conservative Government was against, and such movements for, the Common Market? 1 fancy he would still have come down on the side of the political hierarchy. He would only have had to alter about ten words in that article, because it omits to do the one thing that would discredit the anti-Common Marketeers: prove that they are wrong.
FRANCIS RECKETT
ThurlWood House, Croxley Green, Hells
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