Rhodesia

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 20

Rhodesia

Sir,—The letter from • a Rhodesian printed by you a few days ago seems to have aroused great indignation. 1 think it only fair to remind his detractors that he at least taesta the country .of,which £L writ ”’ too* a BSSTSS® wi th ' Which one doee**not agree-yet it is confidently assumed that the British teople are aU of one mind •taut the Rhodesian SZ timt; This is pnrenotMofa

ganda that might have suggested we all approved—or did not approve—our Government’s action at the time of Sues.—Yours, etc., I. TREW. December 20, 1965. Sir, —I was pleased to read the interesting letter from a special correspondent of the “New York Times” in Nigeria as to the success of majority rule there: “Western Region elections. Widespread allegation of irregularities at polling booths; 50 people killed in riots; damage to property estimated at £200,000.” Lord Salisbury, at the Conservative Party conference on October 15 said: “It seems over the question of Rhodesia there has come a moment when we have to face the final degradation, because we are being asked by a British Labour Government not only to abandon our friends and kinfolk but to tell them to hand over at a very early date their fate and the fate of their wives and families to the tender mercies of men who, the Government must know, are as yet totally unfitted to conduct any free form of government at all." After sanctions, what next?—Yours, etc., ~ 1 D. VICARS. December 20, 1965.

Sir,—“The Press” is to be congratulated on the publication of the article, “Rhodesians All Safe and Laughing.” This is the first occasion that there has been any attempt to put the 'case for Rhodesia in front of the public. Until now, pages have been printed in favour of African rule, but the real motives for the antagonism of the African States against Rhodesia have never been revealed. Their aims have been concealed in a mass of false sentiment and propaganda by those who hope to walk in, when the whites are pushed out. This is something which, for the sake of Africa, especially black Africans, must never be allowed to happen. Two good thing*'so far have been the result of U.D.I. One, a halt has been called to the British Government's giving self-government to those who are quite unfit to receive it. Two, the Commonwealth is free of Ghana and Tanzania. —Yours, etc., MATABELE. December 18,1965. Sir,—lt amazes me to hear so-called Christian people wishing each other Christmas greetings, peace and good will, and yet they are treating Rhodesia with anything but that! I suggest we all pull up our socks, even the church and mean it Surely we are what the Bible calls a hypocritical race.—Yours, etc, „ "WILLIAM TELL.” December 20, 1965.