28 MARCH 1952, Page 18

West African Attitude

SIR,—Your article on West Africa is refreshingly frank and true. That the British have educated these people from a condition of deep savagery t,to a fitness for self-government in less than sixty years is so remarkable as to justify halos not curses. It is essential hoWever that this self-government should be complete, so that the people may appreciate who is responsible for the benefits accruing. They should be elevated at once to the independence of Liberia and Haiti.—Yours