‘Sanctions Ineffectual’

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31345, 15 April 1967, Page 13

‘Sanctions Ineffectual’

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

WASHINGTON, April 14.

A three-man private American mission just returned from Rhodesia has reported that the United Nations economic sanctions would never topple Mr lan Smith’s Government.

The Conservative group, sponsored on its fact-finding trip by the American-African Affairs Association, said the effect of the United Nations measures would be more likely to tear holes in the fabric of the United Nation’s “artificial curtain.” Expressing strong sympathy with Mr Smith's white regime, the mission asked in its report: “Upon what evidence can Rhodesia possibly be adjudged a threat to international peace?” Calm pervaded Rhodesia, it

said. The perceptive American visitor, familiar with racial tension in the United States, sensed none of this in Rhodesia. The three-man group—Dr.

Walter Jacobs, professor of government and politics at Maryland University, Mr James Kilpatrick, a Virginia newspaper editor, and Mi Rene Wormser, an international lawyer from New York—met Mr Smith and members of his Cabinet during their visit, as well as numerous white and black Rhodesian citizens. They did not see any Rhodesian African nationalist leaders.