British Asians
Sir: I congratulate J. W. M. Thompson (Spectator's notebook', 9 May) on his note about those wretched British Asians in Uganda and elsewhere.
On most political issues it is possible to see two sides—one's own and, with greater or less difficulty, the other chap's. I mean, have frorkthe very start, right back to.thfise armed advisers, been opposed to American involvement in Indochina: but one can see there is a case of sorts for their being there. Even apartheid, even the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, have—given the wilful blind- ness of the Boers and the Bolsheviks—their own ghastly logic. But our treatment of the British Asians is, quite simply, morally inde- fensible. There is nothing, nothing at all, to be said for it; and the silence of the poll. ticians about it shouts their guilt aloud.
So, again, thanks to Mr Thompson for raising his voice.
Anthony Hern Maycot, Woodland Way, Kingswood, Tad- worth, Surrey
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