Reply On Rhodesia

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31497, 11 October 1967, Page 22

Reply On Rhodesia

The chairman of the Aid Rhodesia Society (Lieuten. ant-Colonel A. C. R. Elderton) writes as follows in reply to a leading article printed in “The Press" on Wednesday under the heading "Rhodesia Stalemate": “You would be aware of the saying that 'you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but not all people all of the time.’ Why, therefore, do you persist in publishing editorials on Rhodesia which are not true, and whicn only contain half the facts? I refer to your issue of October 4. While almost the entire editorial is open to criticism, two statements cannot be allowed to go unchallenged “First, that Mr Vorster will do nothing positive to aid the Rhodesian Government. How do you explain the action of the South African Government, in rightly providing help in the form of armed police, etc., against the Chinese-trained African terrorists infiltrating into Rhodesia from Zambia? “Second, the Tiger talks foundered because Wilson demanded the surrender of the Rhodesian police and armed forces, also the Government, to the tender mercy of a Whitehall regime, which in view of the British record of double talk over Rhodesia, would have been straight suicide. The revised conditions for a constitution offered by Wilson were accepted in full!”