Entering Europe
Sir: I recommend all anti-marketeers to read and circulate Mr D. V. L. Rovve's pro-Market letter (July 29): no better anti-market propaganda exists.
He tells us that the Market is part of the "tides of history" and resistance is foolish. This was the reasoning of Laval and Quisling faced with Hitler's United Europe, and it did not save them from the firing squad.
He tells us that "for years all political parties have been committed to entry . . . and declared their intentions at succeeding general elections, thus gaining the necessary mandate." Democracy Market-style evidently means that you can vote for the Market, or you can vote for the Market. How reminiscent of the Nazi and Soviet United Europes.
Lastly he says: "Those EFTA countries that are not becoming full EEC members have committed themselves to form a new free trade association with the enlarged European Community." That is, we could have had whatever slight gain might come from increased trade with the Six without the need to end trade relations with the old Dominions, and still less to abolish our own nation by alien rule and limitless immigration.
Is Mr Rowe really an antiMarketeer in disguise? One is tempted to think so, but his letter bears all the marks of derivation from a European Movement handout. The pro-Market case really,is as weak as that, but unhappily, the marketeers have one argument which may be decisive if we let it be: naked force.
David Lazarus 38 Cedar Road, London NW2
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