Efforts Of Smith Regime Praised

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30946, 30 December 1965, Page 10

Efforts Of Smith Regime Praised

(From Our Own Reporter)

WESTPORT, Dec. 29.

A New Zealander now living in Rhodesia, praised, in a letter to his parents in Westport,

the efforts of the Smith the British Prime Minis

11 regime and criticised ister (Mr Wilson).

“Fancy that Wilson wanting to turn us over to a pack of wogs,” wrote Mr E. Samson to his parents, Mr and Mrs A. J. Samson, of Shellswell street. Westport. Mr E. Samson, a former male nurse, is now in charge of a hospital at Mount Darwin about 80 miles from Salisbury. His wife is a Rhodesianborn Scot who at one time was matron of a Presbyterian women’s home at Shirley.

Mr Samson’s letter to his parents occupies one page of a letter on two pages of which is printed a “Rhodesian message” which seeks to justify the declaration of independence by the Smith regime.

Mr Samson says Rhodesia is very quiet “In fact one would not even know we had declared our independence if we did not read the papers,” he says. “Fancy that Wilson wanting to turn us over to a pack of wogs. Thank goodness there ar?r a few New Zealanders who understand the situation

and don‘t agree with Holyoake.”

Mrs Samson refers to Mr Wilson in derogatory terms and calls him an interferring man. She praises Mr Smith. “We love our independent Rhodesia and are Very proud of it,” she says. “We thank God every day of our lives for sending such a man as lan Smith to be our leader and saviour. “The majority of the Africans and all the 600 chiefs are absolutely thrilled about it (independence)—it is only the fanatical few nationalists and interfering fools from other countries who have so much to say,” she says. “We have been absolutely sickened by the lies that appear in newspapers and the manner in which press photographers have got their pictures,” Mrs Samson says. “They went to the African townships and threw pennies and sweets into the rubbish bins—naturally the piccaninies flew to get them out, they thought it was great fun —and then of course the British newspapers published pictures of the poor starved African children who could only get food by grovelling in the garbage cans. “Is it any wonder we get bitter about Britain and her treatment of us.” Mrs Samson says.