24 APRIL 1964, Page 13

APARTHEID AND THE PRESS

SIR,—Mr. Pienaar, in his defence of apartheid, challenges me to reply to two questions. 1 am glad to be able to try.

(1) Of course many attacks on apartheid are based on falsehood. But this does not mean that all are false. Nor does it mean that the most devastating are not the most truthful.

(2) I hope to see the white minority survive. But they are their -own worst enemies The dangers they live among are caused by their support of the monstrously unjust apartheid system. Let them cease to batten on the miseries of their black neighbours. Let them remember religion and morality. And then let them deserve success and survival.

PATRICK DUNCAN

Wentworth. Love Lane. Bembridge, Isle of Wight