SUDAN CULTURAL CENTRE
SIR,—I was very much interested in, and encouraged by, Mr. Thomas Hodgkin's article 'Sell-determining Sudan,' published in your issue of September 3.
There is, however, a small factual inaccuracy in it which ought perhaps to be corrected. No one has a higher opinion of the late Sir Douglas Newbold or is more conscious of what he did for the Sudan than I. But Mr. Hodgkin's description of the Sudan Cultural Centre as one of his inven- tions is completely wrong. The idea of the Cultural Centre was conceived and developed by Sir Duncan Cumming, Mr. Ewcn Camp- bell and myself (all of us at that time mem- bers of the Civil Secretary's Department) in conjunction with Mr. G. C. Scott, who was Warden of the Gordon College., The Civil Secretary then was Sir Angus Gillan. Douglas Newbold was Governor of Kordofan Province and knew nothing of the project until it reached the stage of execution when (having been by then transferred to Khartoum himself) he gave it. his wholehearted support.
' Black land.' Bush Lane, Send, Surrey
The Rev. J. D. Preece, formerly Vicar of Dalton, near Rotherham, Yorks, and now Dean of St. James's Cathedral, Port Louis, Mauritius, wishes to thank the kind person who sends him the Spectator every week.
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