10 JULY 1982, Page 19

Sir: South African friends and relations think of their government

in much the same way that the woman correspondent, quoted by Alexander Chancellor (Notebook, 26 June), thinks about her government in Argentina. And, for that matter, the way most Germans thought about their Nazi government in 1939 (as portrayed to me by an SS POW who helped me to get started in farming in 1946).

There's no place like home!

George Scales

Cobblers Pieces, Abbess Roding, Near Ongar, Essex