Drink Her Down

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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Your leading editorial for October 29, entitled "Conservative Labour" comments on the collapse of the British Labour Party with enthusiasm but with little knowledge. The whole editorial is notable for the fund of ignorance which it displays. I quote the last paragraph:

"The basically Conservative British people have stood the Socialistic experiments in a spirit of fair play. They have allowed the Labour government full rein, and gave it enough rope to hang itself--which it did."

I did not know that it was the "spirit of fair play" that motivated British voters in returning the Labour Party to power, but it does seem a shame that this same spirit should not have swept them on to giving the Labour government the "full rein" mentioned in the editorial. Perhaps such an excess of "fair play" would not have been in accord with what the editorial writer so aptly calls "the fundamental soundness of the English nation."

The Labour government, not having a majority in the Commons was totally unable to carry out its "Socialistic experiments." What the British people gave to the Labour government was enough rope to enable Lloyd George and the Liberals to tie it hand and foot and nothing more. L. J. M. Halle, Jr. '32. Cambridge, Mass.