SIR,—II is surely a good rule, before criticising public speakers,
to take the trouble to find out exactly what they have said. In your issue of October 23rd Mr. R. L. Swaby writes of the Albert Hall meeting concerning the Archbishop's "unequivocal condemnation of the profit- motive." What the Archbishop actually said was, "The profit-motive is not simply evil, it can have its right place, but that is not the first place, and the harm of the predominance of the profit-motive is not merely that it is an expression of selfishness whether the form it takes Ii concerned with dividends or with wages [" Janus" please note] but
that to put this first may lead to an ordering of economic life which is in fact damaging to the general interest."
" Janus " (so scrupulous a critic) was no doubt referring to some other ecclesiastical denunciation which I have somehow missed.—Yours faith-
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