34 East 68th Street, New York 21, NY THE GENERAL
ELECTION
SIR,—If, as Henry Fairlic asserts, the General Election campaign is unexciting, may not the primary cause be what Mr. Ormsby Gore calls the 'basic hypocrisy' of much of contemporary Socialism? There are few sights in politics more pathetic than that of an essentially doc- trinaire party trying to be empirical, and the failure of Right-Wing Labour to be Socialist in anything but imagination prompts the re- flection that we may soon see a new and much more healthy political line-up.
and its opponents, and the certainty that real issues will once again dominate our political life. As for Mr. Attlee, Mr. Gaitskell, and their followers, they will have the chance of being empirical to their hearts' content.—Yours faithfully,
RICHARD FEILDEN
Cuddesdon College, Oxford
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