The letter from Peter Apap Bologna (The Sunday Times of Malta, September 28) about my sister-in-law’s bikini case quotes extracts from Dodo Lees’ autobiography which, unbeknown to him, are erroneous.
Dodo, charged by Dom Mintoff to get tourism going during his 1955/1958 government, did so with enthusiasm and success.
She was certainly aware that the notices on beaches about wearing bikinis did not exactly help her efforts.
Six years after she left, Christine Adams bought a bikini in Malta and had no reason therefore to think she could not wear it. As the daughter of a Royal Navy officer stationed in Malta, she was not the sort of person to indulge in a scheme, as described by Dodo, to provoke a court case by deliberately exposing herself to that possibility.
Dodo retained an interest in Malta, owning a house in Gozo, for the rest of her life.
The outcome of the case delighted her to the extent that, when writing her memoirs many years after the event, she assumed it was all due to her. It was not.
Contrary to what is stated in the letter, Christine is still alive and well, and I might add, has been well amused by her case hitting the news again 50 years later.