23 APRIL 1994, Page 27

Sir: In his reply to my letter on Churchill and

racism in your issue of 16 April, Andrew Roberts contests my claim that Churchill deeply disapproved of Afrikaner policy towards black South Africans by quoting a memorandum of 1942, in which he advised against giving 'Hottentots' a vote in parliamentary elections. By today's standards that is an illiberal view, illiberally expressed; but it is not incompatible with condemning, and detesting, Afrikaner farmers who flogged their employers with a sjambok.

David Hunt

Old Place, Lindfield, Sussex