File A2/138. - Alun [Oldfield Davies]. Thanks for the invitation to join the recipient and other former members of the Welsh Broadcasting Council ...,

Alun [Oldfield Davies]. Thanks for the invitation to join the recipient and other former members of the Welsh Broadcasting Council at the Bulkeley Arms on 20 July. Feels sure that the recipient understands why he has to refuse the invitation on this occasion. Although the writer is now associated with independent television, the BBC remains his first love and many of his closest friends are still employed by the Corporation. Did not have the least objection to Mrs Rachel Jones as a person, and she will certainly make a good chairman for the Corporation in Wales. It is not her fault that she has been placed in the middle of the present crisis; rather, the blame lies with those who inflicted her on Wales with the deliberate intention of creating a rift between the non-Welsh-speaking and the Welsh speaking Welsh people. By nature, the writer is a forgiving person, but he cannot forgive either Lord Brecon or Lord Brooke for the deliberate snub which has been inflicted upon Wales which is striving to retain its nationality in the face of countless difficulties. Welsh.