The Anti-Whites
SIR,—Mr. Colin Legum protests too much. Nobody who knows anything about him would suggest he was a Communist, nor would such a horrid impu- tation be valid in the case of those high ecclesiastics, members of the House of Lords, or other respectable dignitaries whose names appear in The Puppeteers. But let's keep a sense of proportion. Here in this book there are a couple of dozen organisations listed, varied- in origin and composition, but all dedicated to the proposition that European rule in southern Africa should be ended as soon as possible, and that the Africans should take over. Surely it must be blindingly obvious that any organisation with
such an aim would attract Communist agents for miles around, and infiltration by the comrades and left-wing allies would follow in no time at all. But facts and figures are desirable, and Messrs. Sorest and Greig have performed a public service in ex' burning a mass of them.
But what baffles me is this. Seven, six or ever' five years ago optimism about the results of iny mediate African self-rule might have been pardon' able. But now that the picture is plainly visible— the quirks of one-man rule, the Kafka-like night' mare of Ghana and the Congo and Zanzibar, the stamping-out of minorities, the waste and the quarrels and the slaughter—it is surely amazing that the enthusiasm shown by the more respectable patrons of these organisations for African domino' 'tion everywhere shows no sign of abating.
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