Dirty tricks
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News that Russian road-going vehicles will make their first appearance at the Commercial Motor Show at Birmingham next month opens up mind-boggling possibilities. It conjures up pictures of furtive men in astrakhan hats creeping around the exhibition with pocket geiger-counters and protesting to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders that potential customers are being beamed away from their stand by perfidious Albion (not knowing, of course, that Leyland took over Albion yeti's years ago).
I foresee an unscrupulous rival trying to hypnotise the Russian salesmen into chanting "Buy British" and bombarding their exhibits with secret rays to make the paint fall off. And I wouldn't put it past some rotter to put water in the vodka. In the great power struggle between the Cbmmunists and the West, no trick is too dirty.