The Commonwealth

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32233, 27 February 1970, Page 12

The Commonwealth

i- Sir,—-Saltis Populi Suprema e Est Lex is to be congratuS> lated for commenting on tbe y statement by the deputy Sepy reary-Geheral of the Commono wealth Secretariat, that ‘‘its - 28 members share the same systems of law, government, education, administration.” etc. A more inaccurate statement I have not heard for a long time. The following ad- . ditional countries are also *• alien to British CommonJ’ wealth ideals: India, where there is a system of apartheid | against the “untouchables” “ which makes South Africa :e look like a home for maiden y aunts; Zambia, a one-party ie State, where terrorist gangs are housed and nourished, and 9 where groups of idealists who *" disagree with President ® Kaunda are imprisoned in ghastly conditions; Tanzania, ts a one-party State, where ;v members of the former Sul- ™ tan of Zanzibar’s administrak’jtion are confined in an Afridi can Belsen. African members share one ideal in comd' mon; to remain in the Commonwealth only while they lean get something for nothling.—Yours, etc., >s| QUIS SEPARABLE? s; l February 25, 1970.