20 DECEMBER 1969, Page 24

Cri de coeur

E.M.B.

Each month the mandarins their fiddles play, Each night the people in their torture toss; Inflation fills the grim ballon d'essai, Taxation's levied on the ensuing loss. The rolling rentier's discarded moss Reminds us Rome was not burnt in a day.

John Bull is in America. He will report on Wall Street next week.