We have been treated to a sickening performance from all the apparatus of "Noyalist" mystification during the course of the Queen's vist to West Germany. As is well known, in these days the royalty is merely part of the political set up, used cynically by the Government of the day. ‘When Lizzie spoke, she was expressing exactly what Mr. Wilson and the Labour Government wanted her to. Tracing out the complicated motives which led to the visit would require a full length analytical article, but in the meantime Labour Party members should ponder over a report we have had sent to us from West Germany on the question of the Bill for Emergency Laws which is before the Federal Parliament.
In a declaration signed by the following bodies: the German Secialist Students Union, the Social Democratic Students Union, the German Liberal Students Union, the Humanist Students Union, and the Federal League of German-Israeli Study Groups, it is pointed out that the emergency lars would: (1) allow the Federal Government to take-over almost completely the power of the state; 2) make it possible for the executive to usurp legislative powers; 3) make it possible for the Government majority to prolong the period of emergency indefinitely, which enteils amongst other things the postponement of elections;