BAN ON LIONS GAME SOUGHT
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LONDON, October 13.
A British Labour M.P. said yesterday that he would ask the Government to ban all future tours of Rhodesia by the British Lions Rugby Union team.
Mr Roy Hughes, a Welshman and a keen Rugby fan, has tabled a Parliamentary question for the Commonwealth Secretary, Mr George Thomson, to answer when the House of Commons reassembles on October 23. Rugby officials have decided to let the Lions play in Rhodesia next summer, in spite of British Government disapproval. The match will take place at Bulawayo on June 3 during a tour of southern Africa. Mr Hughes said: “1 am as keen as anyone about Rugby and sport in general, but politics and the colour bar should be kept out of it altogether.
“This is certainly not the case in Rhodesia, and I think we should show our. disapproval by refusing to play there.”
Although the British Government has objected to the Lions visiting Rhodesia as giving an impression of normal relations between Britain and the breakaway colony, it has taken no steps to impose an official ban.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 13
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