Letters to the Editor
Capricorn Africa Jeannine Scott, Lord March The Labour Party's Soul Patrick Mabel Cyprus—The Other Side Zenon Rossides Some of the Evidence Peter Evans Judas's Service Rev. J. K. Nettle/old,
Rev. C. G. Hooper
`In Their Shallow Graves' II. S. Freeman The Lost Leader Major H. E. S. Harben Art Gallery Defences Mrs. M. D. Hudson
CAPRICORN AFRICA
SIR,—Commander Fox-Pitt's letter in your issue of April 6 rightly stresses the importance for any political movement in Africa that Africans should play a full part in it. It is, surely, the strength of the Capricorn move- ment ,that in it members of all the races are working together to build a political faith and system for their country. For example, the draft document to be adopted at the forth- coming Convention is the work of the Society's numerous Citizenship Committees, all of which
are multi-racial in composition. , • - Commander Fox-Pitt goes on to suggest that the Convention and the charter which it is• to adopt will be of no value unless 'the trusted leaders of the Africans' are to be present. Well- known and responsible Africans are certainly expected to be at the Convention and to take a prominent and indispensable part in all its proceedings. But the Convention will as cer- tainly not be open to extremist `black' racialists any more than to their 'white' counterparts.
It is true that, as Commander Fox-Pitt sug- gests, sonic Africans are for various reasons hostile to, or suspicious of, the Capricorn Society. Only time and experience of Capri- corn in action will convince those Africans that the Society means what it says—to quote Colonel Stirling's own words in the article which you published on March 23—'. . . there is no basis for qualification for the vote within the framework of democratic practice or within the true interpretation of the term "partner- ship" which could have long denied the Afri- can a statistical preponderance in the total
votes cast. . . It is for that very reason that sonic Africans of European and Asian extrac- tion arc also hostile or suspicious. The fact remains that 'men of goodwill' of all colours and creeds seem to be realising in increasing numbers that the Capricorn idea offers a far more promising road into the future than the blind alleys of black and white racialism.— Yours faithfully,
JEANNINE scorr MARCH /9 Melhary Road, W14
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