Dear Melwyn, Quite honestly, I fail to see the import of your rather long-winded reply to my original message in response to Gabe. It is quite outside the ambit of the subject under discussion.For your information though, I have known Dick Cashmore for some time as also Hugh Walker, the individual mentioned in John Lonsdale's foreword. In fact,Cashmore's thesis were circulated to us as members of the Kenya Administration Club(U.K.), so I was well aware of his important contribution. The letter from Sir John Johnson which I'd circulated was in appreciation of Selma's book and the effort that had gone into its making, You would do well to take some time to read the two chapters she has written on the Civil Service, which give us a good idea of the merits and demerits of the British Administration. That the British can now accept their demerits and still write us letters of congratulation shows that they have come a long way. We can argue about the role played by the Goans till Kingdom come but the fact is, they were part of it. I have NEVER and will NEVER kowtow to anyone. For me, the topic ends here.
Mervyn Maciel
