Tour injunction
Sir,—G. H. Ager persists in claiming that Messrs Lange and Minto stopped the tour, when it was stopped by a properly set-up court of law. The rugby union must have known that a legal challenge was inevitable, but by deferring its decision to tour until April it left itself without time to sort out the legal tangle it got itself into. If the injunction had been refused the tour would have gone ahead, regardless of whether it had legal right or not, with G. H. Ager highly elated, Minto talking about the power of South African money, and racist bigotry preparing for another tour in 1987-88. I not understand Ted Mulcock’s opening
sentence. I deny ascribing certain adjectives about Lochore to him, I doubt if a university blue is Rugby’s highest award, but I welcome his implication that the apartheid movement is not necessarily implacable, political or desperate.—Yours, etc., VERNON WILKINSON. August 5, 1985.
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