“Send In Troops,” Says Miss Todd

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30916, 24 November 1965, Page 22

“Send In Troops,” Says Miss Todd

(N.Z.P.A. Reut SALI Miss Judith Todd ai from London and immedi send troops to the break;

Miss Todd is the daughter of a former Rhodesian Premier, Mr Garfield Todd, now under house arrest north of Salisbury. The 22-year-old student told reporters she had returned to try to show Britain its responsibility to help Rhodesians who opposed Mr lan Smith’s Government. “I think the only way Britain can help is to give Sir Humphrey Gibbs (the British-appointed Governor) the power tt govern. “The only way they can do

ter —Copyright) [SBURY, November 23. rrived in Salisbury today iately called on Britain to away colony.

this is to send in troops,” she said.

Miss Cynthia Todd, who met her sister, told reporters their father was ill at his Shabani farm, 250 miles from Salisbury, where he was restricted last month.

Before leaving Britain last night, Miss Judith Todd asked for British protection in the event of her arrest. She said she was liable to be sentenced to up to 20 years’ gaol under Rhodesia’s Preservation of Constitutional Government Act. She also claimed to have reliable evidence that Rhodesian police had beaten up the African nationalist leader, Joshua Nkomo, after he had had talks with the British Prime Minister, Mr Wilson, earlier this month.