by the use of her late father's name in support of Government.

And Mrs. Marjorie Davis claims United Bermuda Party founder Sir Henry Tucker would turn in his grave if he thought Dr. Gordon would join the UBP.

Mrs. Davis, daughter of the late Mrs. Clara Margaret Gordon, is angry that her father's name has been used during political debate since before the October general election.

Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan and Minister of Youth and Sport the Hon. Pamela Gordon, another daughter of Dr. Gordon, have both claimed he would have supported their party.

Mrs. Davis said: "My family and I strongly object to the way in which the name and the legacy of my father have been and are being abused in Bermuda's political and social circles.

"It should be said that his accomplishments to better the lives of black people and other underprivileged persons in Bermuda are a matter of public record.

"Certainly he was a brilliant, complex man who had strong philosophical convictions. But he was also an astute politician, keenly aware of the need to employ political strategies and well able to practice them.'' Mrs. Davis stressed she would rather leave political analyses of Dr. Gordon to political historians, but, she added that there was no question the Bermuda Government were no supporters of her father, until recently.

She said: "Sir Henry Tucker, founder of the UBP, would likely turn in his grave at the Premier's recent assertion that Dr. Gordon would become a fellow member of the governing party had he been alive today.

"The justice my father envisaged for his people was not part of Sir Henry's plan.

"It is clear to my family that Government's neglect in acknowledging the facts and injustices of the past, while busily invoking the name of Dr.

Gordon, wherever convenient, is indicative of the worst kind of political opportunism and is, frankly, sickening to us.'' So too, according to Mrs. Davis, is the fact that her brother Mr. Hakim Gordon was on the Official Bermuda Stop List. She said up until his death, two years ago, Government refused to state why.

She said: "Hakim was a charismatic, world travelling anthropologist. In spite of the fact that Hakim's only interest in returning to Bermuda was the settlement of our mother's estate, he was unjustly banned from this Country by the Government.

"Like his father Hakim rejected convention and he was rejected by the Government who are now willing to embrace Dr. Gordon as one of their own. The irony is painful.'' Mrs. Davis spoke of her mother who was legally separated from Dr. Gordon before her death in 1964. Dr. Gordon married again and had other children.

She said: "My mother was a loving parent who was completely devoted to Dr.

Gordon's vision of social justice for Bermuda.'' Mrs. Davis said she had been empowered to break the family silence to set the record straight.

She said: "It strikes me that it is that very feeling of empowerment that was the essence of Dr. Gordon's vision for Bermudians who needed to be set free.'' Dr. E.F. Gordon.