We see from our records that you were once a subscriber to Contact. You may know that since that time the paper has led a precarious existence, It has in fact been saved only by the action of people who felt, as we did, that it should not be allowed to die for lack of energy. We wish to assure * you that we do still exist, and that we intend to continue publishing whatever the difficulties. With this assurance, would you like to resume your subscription? To encourage old allies like yourself, we are sending a complimentary copy with this note. In it you will find the current
* Contact has been more or less identified with the South African Liberal ‘Party. However, there is now a disagreement over editorial policy =< the specimen copy our correspondent received contained an item about this dispute. Contact received a letter from Mr. Peter Brown, National Chairman of the Liberal Party, which stateds "The Liberal Party is opposed to all forms of totalitarianism, including communism. It would agree that the first task of a SeA. Democrat today is to fight the immediate threat of apartheid and not the remote danger of communism. But Liberals do not delude themselves that communists are interested in seeing established here a fully democratic regime..."' The Liberal Party officially disassociated itself from a leading article in the previous issue of Contact in which the statement "both comajnism and this newspaper believe in universal franchise and majority rule" appeared,