South Africa and Russia
Sir,—ln a letter on April 10, B. P. Lilburn, and D. Shaw in a letter on April 15, give credence to a report of a British Broadcasting Corporation programme, “Panorama”, which has only suggested that South Africa and the Soviet Union “are working together secretly to control the world’s markets in gold, diamonds and Slatinum”, because it is to leir advantage that prices of these commodities “be kepi up” This report is no more than a suggestion in a pro gramme by the 8.8. C., which i: becoming increasingly preoccu pied with filling its pro grammes, fictional or documentary, with malicious antiSoviet propaganda inventions. Had the Soviet Government not denied this slander, a moment’s thought would have convinced these correspondents that while Western currencies are daily depreciating through inflation, no conspiracy on the part of either the Soviet Union or South Africa is needed to keep up the prices of gold, diamonds, or platinum.—Yours etc., / M. CREEL. April 15, 1981.
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