Caetano's visit
Sir: Mr Wilson has repeated his criticism — what he has said in Parliament regarding Caetano's visit — in an Independent Television interview on Tuesday evening (July 10). He has said: "representatives of oppressive regimes should not be invited, wined, dined and welcomed." . . . . If Mr Wilson's principle applies right across the board to all repressive regimes, everyone would agree with him; but here is not the question of principle but of ideology. Surely Mr Wilson has not forgotten that in February 1970 he has entertained a representative of an oppressive communist tyranny, the Tito's Policeman, Mitja Ribicic, the then Federal Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and former Head of Tito's Secret Police for Slovenia. And not only that. The eye witnesses and former survivors, the victims of Tito-Ribicic massacre in Slovenia, after the war have accused him of personal crimes and tortures. Many of them have written ghastly stories in your columns. It was your respectable journal that called M. Ribicic " the Mitja murderer" and Daily Telegraph, the " Yugoslav Eichmann." Yet Ribicic was wined, dined and welcomed in flattering terms by Mr Wilson and his government. The Times on the other hand was engaged in whitewashing of Ribicic's crimes.
If Dr Caetano represents an " oppressive" regime, he as far as is known has clean hands, has committed no personal crimes, and on this account — perhaps Mr Wilson could agree —
DrCaetano deserves a better treat
ment than his Yugoslav guest of three years ago. For Poruguese alleged cri mes have as yet to be established and proved, while crimes of Tito and Ribicic have been proved beyond any
doubt. Yet there are two yardsticks applied by the Times and Mr Wilson, .therefore the genuineness of both Mr Wilson and the Times should not be ,taken at face value.
Stanisha R. Vlahovic 7 Clarence Road, Moseley, Birmingham.
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