Not Left

Sir,—Barry McKaig has made two alarming mistakes, viz. when he associates the World Affairs Council and the Social Credit Club with the Left politically. Being closely associated with both these organisations, I categorically deny any association with the Left in either case.

World Affairs Council is strictly apolitical (especially in the last few months) and we take great care to keep it that way. Any statement to the contrary shows a pitiful lack of knowledge of the facts and Mr McKaig is a good example of this. Readers will notice that he did not back his allegation with any facts at all.

Mr McKaig suggests that the newly-formed Social Credit Club is Left; then goes on to try to blacken Scored by associating it with fascists such as Ezra Pound and Mussolini—what a classic non sequiter! I can assure him that the Social Credit Club has never at any time stated that it agreed with these two men or with the anti-Semitism (if there is any) of Major C. H. Douglas. Social Credit's political ideas are essentially Liberal ones and we will resist any attempt to brand us as being Leftist, or Fascist.

Both these clubs are rebelling against the status quo. Readers may do well to remember the words of Carlyle: "Men seldom, in fact never, rebel against anything that doesn't merit rebelling against."