SIR.—It must be comforting to Mr. F. S. Joelson to
he so certain of Kenyatta's role in the Mau Mau uprising• Anyone who has read Montagu Slater's book Tin' Trial of I onto Kenyatta and followed the recent trial of Rawson Macharia, with its disclosures of substan tial payments from public funds to key witness.: against Kenyatta, is likely to feel less certain. Carefu study of the available evidence has failed to convinc' me of Kenyatta's guilt. 1 appeal to any of your reader similarly unconvinced to write to me with a view k organising a petition for Kenyatta's release. Althougl he has served five years of his sentence, he is still restricted to a remote area in the Northern province of Kenya. Most' Africans I know are convinced of Kenyatta's innocence, and to free him would evoke a greater response than the ending of the Emergency welcome though this is.
Incidentally. 1 am glad Mr. Joelson now considers proper 'to criticise proposals or actions with whicl one disagrees. but not to misrepresent the plain facts. 1 wish this had been his editorial policy when he put ported to reprint, with hostile comment, in East A fri( and Rhodesia, a letter on Tanganyika which 1 wrote to The Times. Remarking that it was a pity The Time had seen fit to give such strange views as mine world wide publicity, Mr. Joelson reproduced my letter With subtle editing which altered the sense; he also refused to publish my letter drawing attention to the discrepancy.
One did not expect these tactics from the editor 01 a journal which has been termed the East Africa' Liberal's Bible. But East African 'liberals,' like Mr Joelson, are full of illiberal surprises.
In closing may I thank you for all the articles by T. R. M. Creighton, whose clarity and farsightedness op the Central African issue have immensely en- hanced your reputation amongst Africans.—Yours faithfully,
O. M. LA1T
M. Margaret's Hoarse, Queen Street, South tie!!, Notts
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