In this open letter to J.H. de Waal Malefijt, minister for colonial affairs, Kuyper returned to his criticism of colonial education policy and the stir that his criticism had caused in the Second Chamber. He wrote in response to J.Th. de Visser (1851–1932), member of Parliament for the Christian Historical Union, who had expressed concern on December 6, 1911, about passages from Kuyper’s apology to De Waal Malefijt (see 1911.15, pp. 1117–1118). Kuyper would have liked to take back his words, but the contested passage formed an essential link in his reconciliation with De Waal Malefijt. In this letter Kuyper can do little more than announce that he will discuss the entire matter before the parliamentary winter recess in a pamphlet with the provisional title Afschuwelijk misverstand [Terrible misunderstanding] (see 1912.07). Kuyper comments that he owes the title to De Waal Malefijt himself. For the numbering of this volume of De Standaard, see 1911.06.