24 APRIL 1971, Page 5

Ask Reuters

But they would certainly understand about Frelimo and would realise that it is a violent insurrectionary movement devoted to the practice of war as an instrument of revolu- tion. I do not think that when Joseph Rowntree set up his Social Service Trust he had it in mind that his money would support such activities; and I find it also surprising, and disturbing, that this year's chairman of the Press Association—and a Cowdray direc- tor—should countenance, by his silence if by nothing else, the use to which money under his trusteeship is being put. Reuters is partly owned by the Press Association which itself is a cooperative of the provinical newspapers of this country; and I have no doubt that there are several journalists on Reuters staff who could tell him where the principal sup- port for the Tanzanian operations of Frelimo comes from.