Rhodesia

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30937, 18 December 1965, Page 14

Rhodesia

Sir, —From your front-page splash, “All Safe and Laughing,'' it is evident that no adverse criticism of the regime will be allowed to escape here. It is good, of course, to hear both sides of the story—if we ever do! I would expect the white minority to be safe. After all, who controls the army and the police force? 1 invite people to read the article again. “Methinks the lady

doth protest too much.”— Yours, etc., F.E.H. December 17, 1965. Sir, —I appreciate the sense of fairness “The Press” disclosed in publishing recent information received from Rhodesia. Some correspondents obviously do not wish both sides of the question to be discussed. I am only interested in justice and security for the Bantu people. Socalled freedom means neither. The fact that the Bantu people turned out in their thousands to support their chiefs before British representatives, expressing their wish not to be handed over to black African control, has received practically no publication. The Rhodesian Bantu people respect and love their European co-residents and appreciate the security under which they at present live. It is not difficult for semi-educa-ted agitators to arouse the primitive no-hoper and criminal class in any country, but in Rhodesia recent desperate efforts to cause strikes and disturbances among the Bantu were a miserable failure. It requires an aggressor to be a danger to peace. Rhodesia will never, be an aggerssor.— Yours, etc., ADAM. December 17, 1965.