Capetown, South Africa Sir: "Fellow countrymen" — "Fellow citizens "—"
Our people." If by phrases like these you hope to persuade the British people that something is true which is demonstrably untrue then you must take the native inhabitants of these Islands for a pack of fools.
We know who our fellow countrymen are better than The Spectators or Mr Heath and comDeny can tell us and the definition for the vast long-suffering mass of the population does not rest on any legal double talk.
This whole issue is just one more example of the apparent inability Of British governments within the Memory of the oldest inhabitant to Some to grips with reality and live In the same world as the rest of us. J. J. Bogle 98 Park Avenue, Sale, Cheshire Sir: Mr N. A. Smith (Letters, September 9) should not feel too hurt lpout accusations of racialism. ew of the accusers could actually ,d,efine exactly what they mean; `IleY simply shout slogans because reasoned discussion is beyond their t!bilities. They have been so conditioned that' at the drop of a (multi-racial) hat, they will demonstrate outside the shop of a grocer o,Wholack, stocks white pepper but not „Thus, if I announced publicly at I could provide accommoda;Ion for a homeless British family, `11Y would illustrate their liberal Principles by breaking my fwindows and intimidating my iarnIlY; the Times would chide me n a dignified manner and the BBC would devote hours of good protime to condemning my ,acialism. The Race Relations noard would demand a prison sentence of at least ten years. But if I Made the same offer but specified an Asian family, I should very likely be recommended for an OBE by those same bodies. It is even possible that the BBC would offer me a place with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mr Heath on an
anti-racialist discussion. The former would possibly have to explain why, much against his will, the sixty or so acres of ground at Lambeth Palace could not be used for building homes for Asians while Mr Heath would find it difficult to hold back his tears over his inability to use even one of the 700 or so acres of land at Chequers for the same purpose. After mastering his emotion, he would probably hurry to the House to start work on an Act giving local councils even greater powers of compulsory purchase of the land of the peasantry to provide houses for Asians.
Condemnation by these crazy, mixed-up special pleaders is nothing to be worried about.
C. W. Bond 88 Lower Bristol goad, Westonsuper-Mare, Somerset Sir: How can The Spectator continue to publish articles which support the nightmare administration which is constantly striving to find means to justify the total insanity which allows tens of thousands of Africans and Asians to settle in this country!
John Hanhin 16 Sandy Lane, Tecidington, Middx
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