Macmillan False And Unfaithful’

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29767, 9 March 1962, Page 13

Macmillan False And Unfaithful’

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) JOHANNESBURG, March 8.

Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd’s Nationalist newspaper, “Die Transvaaler,” said today that the British Prime Minister, Mr Macmillan, had fallen in the last two years from a position of one of the world’s foremost statesmen to that of a man whom friendly governments described as “discourteous, unfaithful and false.”

The newspaper said Mr Macmillan, two years ago, had come to Africa to tell the whites that In African affairs, individual merit alone should be the measure, reported the Associated Press Now, after the experience of Sir Roy Welensky. the Rhodesian Federal Prime Minister. In London last week, “it appears that in spite of Mr Macmillan’s pious words in Cape Town, individual merit has no influence whatever with the British Government,” it said The '“Transvaaler” article continued: “In London it was decided finally that the whites o* the federation must be delivered to the non-white majority, lust as Britons delivered to blacks all other whites in African territories they ruled.

tion of Mr Macmillan and his Government lies shattered on the plains of Africa “This is the price that has been paid for the unholy barter London agreed upon: treason against her own blood in Africa for the dubious favour of the black agitatorpoliticians,’’ said “Die Transvaaler.”

“For that reason, concessions are made to the violence and barbarism of African agitators and for that reason discourtesy, breach of faith and deceit are used «s weapons to prevent the white man of Africa from putting the merits of his case in London, as Sir Roy Welensky complained. “The one-time high renuta-