SIR,—Mr. D. G. Pumfrett's letter in your last issue was
a refreshing reminder of the fact that Liberalism is still alive and active. Perhaps it is not too late to hope that some of the leaders of that great party may realise the longing among thousands of younger people for a re-statement of the Liberal creed, adapted to modern social and economic conditions, but based on those old moral principles which made nineteenth-century England respected all over the world. The only way we can escape from the shackles of a rigid totalitarian State ruled by elderly Socialists and Conservatives with large bureaucratic salaries, is by a widespread revival of Liberalism. It is now quite evident that both Tories and Socialists are out to destroy the small independent man. In Germany, as is well known, the economic extinc- tion of the middle class was the prelude to the Nazi movement. It is becoming increasingly obvious that only a revival of Liberalism can save us from an English version of the same process.—Yours faithfully, Healey House, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. S. BROOKE.
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