19 FEBRUARY 1960, Page 14

SIR,—T am in complete agreement with your editorial urging that

the boycott should be postponed. I would go further and urge that we forget it altogether as an effective means to combat apartheid. Huddleston himself admitted, on Panorama, that it would be an 'ineffective gesture.' The one sure effect it will haye, though, will be to ferment bitterness in the Africait Ind entrench the white South African in his back- to-the-wall position.—Yours faithfully,