1 MAY 1964, Page 18

APARTHEID AND THE - PRESS SIR,—While acknowledging Mr. Duncan's welcome admission that

there have been many untruthful attacks on South Africa, may I reply briefly to what he considers to be a truthful complaint—that the whites 'batten on the misery' of their Bantu neigh- bours?

Surely the socio-economic problems in the Republic are far more complex than is suggested by Mr. Duncan's simple expression of moral outrage. And it seems to me that a constructive solution of them will not best be achieved through international acts of war to impose Pan-Africanist rule on five million white, coloured and Indian people, who would lose not only their rights to property but also any guarantee of a future in which they can develop their own distinctive folkways and 'nationalism.'