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4 ry é . ) a eer ee, - _* my PE mit nies << = = amuntosm 6 FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITT (teat Ne, fy 160 North Fittceenth Street, Pnhiladetphia 2, Pennsylwva From Lyle Tatum, Sslisbury, Southern Rhodesia September 196° Vol. TTI, No. 1 NOT FOR QUOTATION Of GENERAL CIRCULATIO: CENTRAL AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS APPROACH POLITICAL CLTBAN Tue last months of 1962 will see political changas in Central Africa which wil! make irreversible the march toward African rule in the very near future. In differ: ent waye the three Territorial Gavernrents of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia ard Nyasaland are moving tovard political climaxes which have been gathering ferce but have been successfully delayed for years The roles of the British Covernment and the Government of the FecJeration of Rhodesia and Nevasaland continue to he important in this precess, but each sten for- watd in (trican political advancement removes a bit more of the influence of these two Governments. This removal cf tafluence anc responsibility is weleaucd by the Pritish but bitteriy resented by Federal officials. The extent toa which these two non-Lervritorial forces will go te maintain their ciametricelly opposed interests re: mains the greatest unknown in a fluid political situation heavy with potential vie- lence, Crisis Mounts in Southern Thodesia tion and a staznati Edear Whitehead, ¢t vith a political problern, g violence, touch security lerisla Zz econouy, Southern Ricdesia faers real crisis. <As cven Sir a spe +f) a @ Prime Minister, “admitted in peech a few davs ago, "the next four or live years are going ta be hard" and "Rhedesians will get little sympathy from the rest of the verld in the next few years." (as reported in the Rucdesis terald, Septemnoer 12, 1962) Sir Fdgor meani, of cource, that white Rhodesians will gece little syupathy This evdinic slip cf.the toennuc by lecal white politicians, referrine to the less than #Y of the popeletion which de white as “the Rhodesijans" or "the meapie of Sout! ein Khodisia," ds part of the local probles. Sir Eenar cetinitely feels chat the black nationalist Ehodesizns got far too much sympathy from the United Netions, ind pendent Airican states, britein, and the United States. Althouch it i: casy to lere patience with the more reactionary white Pheces the vast majority of teen are deserving of surgcthy from the rest of the world. are cauyht in aoweh @f circwistaneces dros which there is no easy vay out. Their fears of both phyeical violence and tinaneial loss arc real and based on events in Other parts of Afvsica. They are neither dovile now satoke. Many of them hove con- trebucen to their een predicauent and chiace the hues. fnilies of wishing to cecepe the consequepcer of thair own sete. Many have cade iresendous contrilutions te the firdesu community, poavticulariy aim the pields of etucntion, healt:, and ccone: ic un: wenerocet, The prorfems of white Rhedisiais Geseree tO be vies will oeyu ranks fo of whew st cena necessary Lo be critica tesah poritacal end govial polseies. 2 oN