For the last four weeks, two students from Maine's Bates College, both veterans, have been touring Britain, debating with British undergraduates. The Bates boys have won only twice, and lost five decisions. Defending capitalism's ways, they lost the audience's vote.
Last week at Nottingham's University College, the two Americans argued that government should not step in to provide full employment. One Nottingham debater clinched victory by tartly observing: "The question is not in most advanced countries considered a debatable point." Said ex-Lieut. Norman Temple, back near his wartime bomber base: "We just couldn't sell free enterprise to Britain."
High spot of their tour...
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