Rapid method of Neo

Sepmil trupviros paradir longale lo rut о nel procesyon. Lo kombra fuston, ki ir portat lo sargo de Roin Viktorya, portir lo ila, tirat pe ma-coffin carried his, dragged by naval ratings. Vast and silent crowds stood in the raw cold to watch the slow progress up “Whitehall, through Trafalgar Square, up the Strand and Fleet Street, to St Paul’s.

Patrick O’Donovan.

FRUITFUL OR STERILE POLITICS?

This week’s business in the Commons opens with debates on consecutive days on the two subjects which, most observers found, bulked largest in the minds of urban voters during last autumn’s general election, housing and immigration. Yet paradoxically, respected voices are raised in the demand that these highly political issues be “taken out of politics”. If this means that a truce should be called to party disagreement over housing and immigration, and that those responsible for policy or concerned with the formation of opinion should concentrate instead on certain principles and their applications on which all well-informed, well-disposed people are supposed to be able to agree, then the demand must be thought to betray some misunderstanding about the nature of democratic politics and of the subjects under discussion.

Free politics arise out of opposition of interests and the clash of views. They work towards the resolution of these differences, not by assuming that an identity of interest can always be achieved nor by seeking to remove all basis of disagreement, but by reconciliation and compromise according to customary or acceptable procedures. If that is so, it is both unrealistic and unprofitable to ask that as soon as an area of policy becomes explosive or requires drastic action it should be promoted to a political Olympus where dwell the beneficent deities, All the Talents, National Coalition, True Patriots, and such demigods as Men of the Centre, and Radicals of All Parties.

In a weaker sense, however, the demand that housing and immigration be “taken out of politics”, though awkwardly expressed, is a valid protest against present dangers. The tensions, prejudices, and hostility inseparable from the settlement of foreign immigrants in any numbers, especially those remote in physical characteristics and social customs from an insular European nation, are open to exploitation in the interest of political power, local or national. To ask for an abatement of politics in this connexion is not to ask that argument should cease or party disagreements be submerged; but that policies be advocated and criticized with honest motives, with proper moderation, and with a responsible sense of the dreadful consequences that could flow from any serious mishandling or aggravation.

CONTINENTAL BOURSES STRONG RECOVERY ON MILAN

European bourses were a mixed bag last week, ranging from very firm to very much easier.

Milan took pride of place, with many issues scoring new highs for the year. The uptrend started as a technical reaction which met some profit-taking. But even a modest revival of investment demand late in the holiday-shortened week resulted in prices finishing some 30 per cent over the low points recorded so far in 1965.

Conversely, Zurich was hit by professional profit-taking combined with a good deal of hesitancy by investors who were anticipating higher loans and who were worried about the increasing effects of the anti-inflation measures. Here, prices fell to their worst levels for some six months.

Another centre to make a poor showing was Frankfurt, where shares eased almost continuously throughout the week, local operators declaring that foreign selling orders were responsible. Both Amsterdam and Paris were somewhat dull and hesitant; internationals quoted on the former

rineros. Vasta e sila fulos stir nel ruda frigo po adsi lo lenta progredo tru White Hall, Trafalgar Square, lo Strand e Fleet Street, ver San Paul.

Patrick O’Donovan (“The Observer”, London, 31 Janar 1965.)

FRUTIFA О STERILA POLITIK?

L’etveka okup nel Komunyos ensar pe plulida debatos pri du subjekos ki, as plus abserveros trir, pezir pluse nel mentos del urba voteros dun lo last-ersa general-elektos : lojo e imigro. Dok, paradoxe, respektat vokos se elevar askanda k’et alte politika qestyonos siu “dusat da politik.” Es eto mindar k’un trev sbur si askat nel partedos-malakordos pri lojo e imigro, e ke lo responsablas pril konduk о pril formazo del opin shur akontre koncentrisi pri sert principos e za aplikazo, pri ко tot beninformat e bondispona jensos sar putat akordenda, dan l’exijo shar si putat rivelan-da som malkomprenos pril natur de demokrata politik e del subjekos debatat.