1 AUGUST 1970, Page 24

Cricket, lovely cricket

Sir: Your correspondent N. J. Ogbuehi asks (Letters, 25 July) 'how can Dr Bowers hope to get away with the conclusion that the anti-apartheid campaign is based entirely on hypocritical, self-righteous conceit?'

His question is answered by Mr George Edinger, of the Saffron Walden Liberal Association, in the same issue. He says that 'it is only by the Peter Haim and the Berna- dettes of this world that any progress to- wards decency, justice and human dignity is advanced.' Mr Hain, when asked on tele- vision about the mass killings in Biafra, said —with the typical sneer which he always seems to have—that they were 'irrelevant'. It's as simple as that.

Donald M. Bowers 13 Kerr Crescent, Sedgefield, Co. Durham