Rhodesia

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30880, 13 October 1965, Page 18

Rhodesia

Sir,—New Zealand and Britain should be ashamed of the way they are treating Mr lan Smith and the Rhodesians. The Rhodesians are mainly our own kith and kin and yet New Zealand and Britain are quite happy to sell them down the road to world opinion, pandering to the United States, Russia, and the AfroAsian group. What chance has the Commonwealth— l mean that part that really concerns us, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Rhodesia —if we cannot stick together? New Zealand and Britain should stop being hypocrites. Britain did not leave her colonies willingly and I am sure that were there a Maori majority in New Zealand, and we. the pakeha, were the ruling party, we would not willingly hand over the country. Then why should the Rhodesians abandon the country to black rule and lose all they have striven for and built up? Any right-thinking person should be behind Mr. lan Smith.— Yours, etc., R. H. JONES. October 10, 1965.

Sir, —“Nihil Utile Quod Non Honestum” has expressed exactly what I was in the process of writing. If the New Zealand Press Association should care to send to Salisbury a completely open-mind-ed, observant representative I should be only too pleased to give him introductions. He can then see for himself how the so-called white minority Government is caring for the Africans. He can report direct to New Zealanders the truths that have never been forthcoming from the present sources of information, particularly the relationships between the white Rhodesian and his darker brother and what the former has done and is doing for the latter.—Yours, etc., H. R. BLACK. October 12, 1965. Sir, —Why should the British Government hand over the white population who made their country, Rhodesia, to the natives? We are supposed to be Christians; so what kind of thinking is it that would hand over its brethren to the heathen? We see the result of such British policy in other “gifts” of the white populations’ hard work to the natives in other parts of Africa. It is down right wicked to try and force Rhodesia to follow suit. —Yours, etc., WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN? October 11, 1965.