The Independent Scholars have perused your short letter in the Financial Times of August 19. In your usual manner you choose to overlook relevant factual data that does fit within the parameters of your publicistic thrust. You do not, for example, point to the pseudo-democracy in Italy, where Berlosconi continues to evade prosecution for bribery by having a supine parlliament declare him immune; you do not refer to Tony Blair's mistatements to a supine parliament to comped Britain into an oil war; you do not advert to the riots in the banlieux of France protesting Muslim exclusion from the opportunities lavished on the jeuness doree (such as yourself); you do not point to President Bling-Bling's abolition of the 35-hour week in France in the interests of travail, patrie, et famille, and you neglect to mention that Europe's proclivity to negotiate rather than to bomb was attained at the cost of the death of countless millions of soldiery in two world wars.
In your Cloud Coo-Coo Land portrayal of perpetual European prosperity, you do not refer the innocent reader to the columns on the last page of the FT, which are headlined, "Mood Turns Defensive on Grim Economic News," "Energy pares Footsie Losses," and "Ireland's AIB leads the Banking Retreat."
Buffon declared two centuries ago, Le style, c'est l'homme, and in this he was correct, for the communication accurately reflects the true Sachs--all gloss, and no veracity.
---By Our Own Correspondent.
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