The following is the text of 2 letter sent by Ken Coates to Jennie on 6/7/66: "After Frank Cousins! resignation, I am sure that you must be very unhappy about the drift of Government policy, If Mr. Cousins is right that the Governnent has given assurances to the bankers that we will restrict internal demand, then he is also quite clearly right that this is 2 wrong attitude a and a contradiction of the philosophy upon which our party is based and so it must be opposed, If domestic and external policy are being dictated by the benkers, I am absolutely certain that you will] be deeply opposed to this, I remember what you said in the debate on Indo=“hina in 1954: "We cannot talk to those (liberal) Americans, when at the same time we approach Washington with a begging bowl held out, because money talks louder than words, I am grieved and shamed when I hear that the contribution which our country can make to international affairs is lost because of the clatter of dollars falling into the begging bowl," "I know that you are able to do good work in your particular job, and that you must feel that it offers an opportunity for practical initiativds, But on the other hand, in so many key areas, in the whole field of trade union freedom, in foreign policy, in economic policy, the Government is committed to completely conservative and orthodox attitudes, Ought you not to stand at Frank Cousins! side against these attitudes, as you stood by an earlier rebel in 1951? It would restore the faith of many worried socialists if you were able to make this stand, painful though I am sure it would be, You would be anything but lonely in the coming years, which seem to be likely to be as troubled and as full of struggles as any of those in which you fought so bravely in the early fifties,
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