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Sir: It Was Distressing To Me To Read Your Ill-

informed comment 'Murder by proxy' (14 June). Thank goodness Robert Horton (Letters, 21 June) put on record what we who have lived in Nigeria for years know to be the true......

Sir: By Stating That The Biafran Secession 'is A Coolly

conceived play for one of the world's larger oilfields,' Mr Horton (Letters, 21 June) was merely echoing the. erroneous view that has been marketed about—that the Biafrans were......

Clearing The Bog

Sir: I fear that I must take issue with Mr D. C. Watt's review of my book, Poland and the Western Powers 1938-1939 (28 June). Accord- ing to the reviewer, 'Its central theme......

A More Murderous Harvest

Sir: I am afraid that it will be a long -time before it is possible to take a balanced View of the origins of the Nigerian civil war, 'but it is important not to allow partial......