Moscow Circus
Sir, —While C.A.R.E.’s aims are laudible, its negative methods are pitiful. Ostricism of South. Africa is just more apartheid. Only repeated contacts can bring any lasting progress. The naivesounding Mr Good should know that the Moscow Circus is on a guaranteed profit and it remains too easy for some of this money to be left here to trickle its way into socially divisive organisations, so I want a convincing answer. I hope to find out how Mr Brutus affords the regular air fares here and why the inconsistent C.A.R.E. does not ask Fiji why its “national” teams contain no Indians, or asks the circus about equal representation of Russian ethnic groups in its cast. In attempting to play ringmaster, Mr Good’s clumsy attempt at smokescreen humour has backfired into a compliment. The most talented performer in a circus is the clown. —Yours, etc., JOHN BATEMAN. February 13, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32531, 15 February 1971, Page 12
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