Still think I was right

9:39am Tuesday 5th February 2013 in Letters By Reader's letter

ADRIAN ELLIOTT (Letters, January 28) accuses me of using selective evidence when I said the world of the 1960s was a much better place than now.

He cites the huge unrest taking-place in Algeria at that time. Such violence was going on, but not affecting anywhere else, save the old colonial country, France.

The point of my letter was to say how peaceful the world was in those times and I still maintain I was correct.

Nor was I over-stating the positive features of the past.

Here is a case in point to illustrate how dangerous the world is getting. After leaving the Merchant Navy, I worked in industrial refrigeration and had occasion to work at the propylene gas plant at Ras Lanuf, Libya, when Colonel Gaddafi was in charge.

My flight landed in Benghazi and I was met, and driven by, a Libyan engineer to Ras Lanuf.

During six weeks in Libya, I was encountered friendliness and good humour from all Libyans I met. Recently all Westerners were told to leave Benghazi for their own safety.

Proof again of the mayhem gradually taking over the world.

Philip Roe Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge.

Comments(8)

The Great Buda says...
10:52am Tue 5 Feb 13

Mr Roe is correct. Just don't mention the war(s).

Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, the Portuguese Colonial War, communist uprising in Angola, Mozambique, and Portuguese Guinea. Nor should you mention the Six Days War, the Nigeria Civil War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland or the Tlatelolco massacre. Be sure Mr Roe does not catch you mentioning the Stonewall riots or the Cuban Missle Crisis.

Above all, don't mention the Algerian War, otherwise Mr Roe might look a bit silly.

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/kev/null says...
10:54am Tue 5 Feb 13

At least Hitler got the trains running on time, eh Mr Roe?

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roclank2000 says...
12:21pm Tue 5 Feb 13

There are not enough atmospheric nuclear tests these days, unlike in the enlightened 1950s and 1960s.

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ColdAsChristmas says...
12:32pm Tue 5 Feb 13

Tony Blair told us that Global Warming was a greater threat than terrorism.
It most certainly is as far as ordinary people's wealth and freedom goes.
If that were true then we are living in dodgy times
In the 1960's we were living in a cooling cycle.

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Buzz Light-year says...
12:54pm Tue 5 Feb 13

I agree with Mr Roe. Oh how I miss smacking my wife and then popping out with my mates to whack a few queers.
Those were the days.

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CynicaloldGit says...
1:21pm Tue 5 Feb 13

/kev/null wrote:
At least Hitler got the trains running on time, eh Mr Roe?
No, that was Mussolini

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Omega Point says...
2:21pm Tue 5 Feb 13

Travel through Africa was easier than now.

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ColdAsChristmas says...
7:06pm Wed 6 Feb 13

People could afford to keep warm in the 60's and didn't have stupid trendy Eco homes either where the cost if keeping warm might double.
Give me our monthly coal deliveries from back then any day (With the odd log to make it last) to the ransom we have today.

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