Welsh Journals

in many countries and in many lines of business, but the trading will be in surplus commodities rather than in essentials. In other words, though foreign trade will be developed, we shall not be over- dependent on it as at present. I do not want to comment on the remainder of Mr David's article,- for example his praise of the Bow Group publication Work for Wales, which contains little but the obvious or the utterly unacceptable-but I would like to point out that the Labour Party has failed, and seems doomed to failure, in its attempts to oust the Conservatives, whilst the Liberal Party has lost further ground in Wales. Plaid Cymru represents AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S HEARTCRY SIR: I have only skipped through five copies of WALES so far and do not notice the one containing the article on How To Live In Wales by Jean Ware*. After twenty summers here it would be interesting to see how much I had managed to learn. Why are Welsh writers al- ways talking about this mys- terious Welshness? If David Jones came here he would find the only hope of a radical alternative to Conservatism in Wales-a far more radical alternative than that which has been offered by the Labour Party, because we do not offer mere state capitalism in place of private capitalism, but a de- centralised, co-operative responsible society as any responsible critic should realise. I believe Wales is still a primarily radical country, and for that reason I feel sure that Plaid Cymru will succeed. Yours faithfully, Emrys Roberts Candidate in Cardiff North 22 Mayflower Avenue Llanishen, Cardiff no respect at all for genius loci, if that is what he is trying to describe. Y Gegin Fach I am here for a fortnight while alterations are being done to the kitchen and I am having the greatest difficulty in restraining the neighbours chucking the rubbish 'over the wall', or 'out at the back' while I am not