JUDICIAL SABOTAGE
SIR,—The daily Press of June 27th stated that Mr. Bevan, Minister of Health, had said (re the National Health Service Bill), "This amend- ment would mean judicial sabOtage of our SOcialised services." Surely this calls for explanation and publicity. Does Mr. Bevan mean (I) Our judiciary is corrupt and prejudiced in the exercise of its office, or (2) that Mr. Bevan and his party are above the law ; or what does he mean? Either of the first two alternatives shocks me profoundly. For generations our administration of justice has been our pride and admired by all the world, and a British judge is President at the Nuremberg trials. What is a foreigner to think when a Minister makes an insulting remark about "judicial sabotage" and it passes unchallenged? We always considered that one of the worst features of Hitler's regime was the way he exalted himself and his party and the State above the law. Are we beginning to drift that way without noticing it? The thought that our rule of law, of which we are so justly proud, should be maligned or swept aside without any one caring fills me with sadness and fore-
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