27 FEBRUARY 1959, Page 22

SIR,—Dr. Northcott is quite wrong in saying that the Mau

Mau troubles in Kenya showed 'how thin is the veneer of the Christian faith' among the Kikuyu. I was in Kenya at the time, and to me the really remarkable fact was not the number of Christian Kikuyu who denied their faith, but the number who refused to deny it in face of certain death. Martyrdom does not seem to me to be evidence of a 'thin veneer of Christian faith.—Yours faithfully,

JANE MEIKLEJOHN