DaFsance From a South Londom Correspondent 1506 On Saturday, the London Civil Defence Region organized a special elected members course at the Guildhall Livery Hall. The object: of the exercise was to convince councillors in the Greater London area that Civil Defence was a practical proposition, High powered speakers ranging from A.C.W. Drew, the Civil Defence chief of the Home Office, to D, Seott-Wilson, M.B.E., A.R.I.C., (regional training officer) attempted to convince an assortment of Labour and Conservative councillors that effective preparations had in fact been made to "protect Britain from a muclear attack",
There were at least 300 delogatos to this conference , and tho time alloweq for discussion was sufficient for a number of pointed quost— ions to be asked which punctured the balloon of deception and self docoption that has besn woven around the Civil Defence recruiting campaign.
The principal line persued by the more vocal critics of Civil Deferico was that :--1. the name Civil Defence is a misnomer, it should be Civil Reseus oor Civil Emergency Corps, and-
2. that the basic concept of Civil .- Defence was am elaborate deception perpotuated om a gillible public,