from Geoff.:~ Crossick It is not only at times of crisis that we have the gratification of watching industrialists and business men contorting themselves in public before fin=ally making no further attempts to disguise self-interest as some more laudable motive, Charlie van Gelderen gave us an example in a recent issue of The Week, A letter to Fhe Times last week provided another. It opened: ‘“Rep— resenting as we do many hundreds of millions of pounds of British capital invested in alaysia and Singapore we are most concerned about the contemplated early withdrawal of Britain's military presence from these countries." It then continued in a more appropriate vein, referring to democracy, honour, self-respect, desertion of friends, and so one Then it closed: *...This is essential for the continued prosperity not only of that area but also of our commercial and industrial activities there with resulting advantage to the United Kingdom,” The letter was signed, M.D, Farrow, Chairman, Rubber Growers Association, and Bouglas Waring, Chairman, Malayan Chamber of Mines, London. It's not often we are given such explicit st&tements, Thank you very much,
: id Robinsone