5 MAY 1979, Page 21

Protest

Sir: Mr Richard West never had a name for Journalistic accuracy, but he did cultivate one as something of an iconoclast. Now that's all over. Today he is plodding into middle age in the footsteps of Malcolm Muggeridge and Paul Johnson in a world full of black Marxist guerrillas, muggers, IRA terrorists and Cuban-backed ayatollahs. West's report ('Rhodesia: guns or politics?' 21 April) makes the ludicrous and untrue claim that 'radical schoolboys from Sweto are taken to England to study under Voanessa Redgrave'. I write on behalf of the Workers Revolutionary Party of which Miss kedgave is a member to ask for this to be Withdrawn. A similar fabrication appeared n a South African newspaper about a year 'go, and it is interesting to note the 'sources' M„.r West now stoops to. i'veX Mitchell, Workers Revolutionary Party, 21 b Old Town,

London SW4