LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters from Ganes!, La!!, Charles Stuart, The Warden of Millfield School, the Rev Guy Bowden, the Rev John H. Bishop, and others.
Discrimination
Sir: Many of my fellow country- men who vociferously denounce the Immigration Bill and see it as a forerunner of the South African pass laws system must be fully aware that the Trinidad govern- ment made it compulsory some years ago for all its citizens to take out identity cards. Although it might be argued that this applies to all citizens regardless of race or creed, it needs little intelligence to penetrate its subtlety in practice. Again, the Guyana government is busy introducing legislation in- tended to deny citizenship to people of Indian origin, who, al- though born in India, went to Guyana as indentured labourers and devoted all their working lives to that country. Whether it is against the majority, as in the case of Guyana, or against the minority, as in the case of Trinidad, West Indian gov- ernments have no equal in the art of racial discrimination.
It seems the height of hypocrisy for us to speak out against Britain when, far from aspiring to the high democratic standards practised in this country, our governments posi- tively turn their backs on them.
Povvellism might no doubt even- tually prove to be a threat to the coloured people in this country but for my part I put my full faith and trust in the vast majority of the ordinary, decent British people. Ganesh La11 The Common Room, Middle Temple, London Ec4
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