Why the Socialists are Challenged
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I AM not at all sure that I welcome 1 the idea of the correspondence space in your worthy journal becoming a cockpit of unenlightened political
... fencing, particularly at the present time, when indignation occasionally overrides logic and common sense.
. The Editor has, however, signified his willingness to provide the arena by publishing the amazing declaration of totalitarian beliefs held by N. G. "Hilditch, who, despite all that may be said hereafter, is living in a capitalist democracy, while Britain is our island home it will remain so.
Does N.G. Hilditch really think that it is possible to have anything but a capitalist democracy on an island —an island that can never feed itself and provide oil, alloys, and out-flung defence? Of course he does not. This island will always have to trade with three-eighths of the remaining productive areas of the world to live at all.
predominant among these is the U.S.A., which is the power behind world affairs to-day, and of probably greater importance to as as being the only nation which can succour this island.
The balance of world power has swung away from us in the past 25 years, and whatever anyone in this country may choose to push over as idealistic, or realistic, thinking, the blunt fact remains that the U.S.A. is our inseparable ally, commercially, economically and militarily. This being so, our way of life must remain akin to that country's, and, indeed, I think every real Briton would have it just that way.
Therefore N. G. Hilditch, if you subscribe to the school of thought which thinks it is good fun to take the fruits of the labour of others and pillage their estates and resources, cast your eyes to Persia, or read and the history of the Roman Empire.
If you do not feel convinced that tns:: British businessman Will give of his best or risk all in private venture, then you yourself should leave the country: you should seek domicile elsewhere, for plainly you willnever be satisfied with the attitude of any business undertaking which .sees a . bandit' enter the office and seeks legislation to keep him out.
That is what we We mean Whin we say we have the right to tell the country what -we want. So
• would you, if you studied' our Constitution as assiduously as you appear to have read Other documents., You Would then, no doubt, realize that the Government is put there by the people, and if We do not like the things it does we say so, and seek to replace it, which is exactly what is under considerationfor October 25. • DEREK MOORE-HEPPLESTON, Manager: Maltby, Rotherham. (For Messrs.. Peel's Tours).
WHAT IS THE ANSWER' TO THIS oNe,?.
THE law demands that before a driver starts his vehicle he should check that the horn is in working order (vide Highway Code, p. 24)1 Yet to sound a horn—the only way of checking.itwhile the vehicle is stationary is an offence. How, then, is'a driver taking over a strange vehicle on thepublic road to comply with one regulation without breaking another?
To sound the horn in such circumstances may possibly be allowed by the condition: unless when necessary on grounds of safety," but although the ques tion may not be of concern to many drivers, an authoritative view would be of interest.
London, E.C.I. ALAN BEZZANT,