[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford085","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford85","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Commuter, Yorkshire, Glasgow, Communist","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford085","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford085.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n29.1.74\nMy dear Derek,\nThanks for the letter.\nSorry to hear you have had such travel difficulties, though I\u2019m not surprised. The London commuter belt has taken more punishment in recent years than any other area in the country. It\u2019s partly the commuters own fault as, unlike you, they behave like sheep and will take any amount of inconvenience without protest. I don\u2019t think they\u2019d take it quite so quietly up in Yorkshire \u2013 or Glasgow. But this willingness to make a virtue out of \u2018taking it\u2019 (i.e. not getting what you are reasonably entitled to get) is widespread and makes the job of the Left extremists much easier. Make no mistake \u2013 what is going on has been carefully, even skillfully organised. They are out to destroy society as we have known it, and they may possibly succeed. If I even hint at this to anyone, they think I\u2019m a fanatic, unbalanced etc. Remember how the DAILY EXPRESS had a headline a day or two before Sept.3 \u201939: THERE WILL BE NO WAR. Optimistic, yes; total unreality, no !\nAt the branch where I work there is a Communist who persistently stirs up trouble against the Head of Dept. \u2013 urges support for NUT strikes \u2013 marching in the streets etc. That\u2019s small-scale stuff but those like him are working \n","Type":"Text"}}]