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CIVILISATION BAR SIR,—In your issue of October 2, Grace Scott

contri- buted an article on the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. In it she referred to an alleged incident at an hotel in Southern Rhodesia when Mr. Wellington Chirwa, a Nyasaland member of the Federal Parlia- ment, was refused admission into the dining-room when accompanied by the British Labour MP Mrs. Barbara Castle. I must point out that the hotel con- cerned has strongly denied that this was the case. Mr. Chirwa was not refused admission into the dining- room of the hotel and did in fact dine there with Mrs.

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