Welsh Journals

The standard of their publications, and the service they give to intend- ing visitors to this country is outstanding. The main function of the Welsh Tourist Board, therefore, is to attract more visitors from England, Scotland and Ireland, and to encourage better amenities for the tourist within the Principality. Friendly Folk The traditions of the Industry in Wales go back two hundred years and its foundations were laid by individuals who gave not only good SIR: Perhaps you will allow a few comments on Tudor David's critic- isms of Plaid Cymru policy which appeared in your October issue. Mr. David states that we are opposed to the 'bureaucratic state' (which is perfectly true) yet main- tains that our policy would mean in practice the creation of such a state. If he read our policy carefully he would see that it would empower the government to encourage the improvement of agriculture and industry with financial aid, through research and pioneer projects, etc., but that it would avoid rigid state control and direction. Mr David then goes on to state that we would like to see less reliance on foreign trade' but that service to the visitor but the friendly welcome for which Wales is renowned. There are many hundreds of individuals who carry on this tradition in Wales to-day. Wales has a tremendous future in the Tourist Industry but if the industry is to be developed to its full it is essential to appoint and finance an organization truly representative of all the Tourist interests in Wales under a non-political leader. Olwen Caradoc Evans Tu Hwnt I'r Bont Llanrwst NEW LOOK our policies would in fact involve more foreign trade. Again, he has entirely missed the point. We depend on foreign trade at present because we have specialised too much: we concentrate on producing an abundance of a few basic mat- erials, which we then have to sell abroad in order to be in a position to purchase from abroad the many necessities which we have failed to produce ourselves. The whole point of Plaid Cymru's economic policy is to ensure that we shall have a varied economy, producing less basic materials but more of the finished articles for our own con- sumption. I have no doubt that this policy will extend Wales's trading contacts