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‘ a ‘ . f te ~ ‘Aen told: Ready . 7 ice : y. rs : toa . wot § . ie - 4 oe ’ By MAURICE TROW RIDGE OO | _e . F3 RITAIN will complete the\withdrawal from Rhodesia: } .._ Aden by November 30 with or without the _ existence of a Government .to Whom respons. - there could '.. bility can be handed over, Mr. George Brown told 7" ” the date ts mine, but you , can be quite sure I did\ not of yesterday, ae take that responsibity unt: —tighter sanctior wo Commons Labour. MPs: Fors, taken fully” Into , oo ve ccount the advice I got 2 “loudly cheered the .: | aye |. ate laa erie eee Po," © By WILFRID SENDALL ’ Foreign Secrelary’s Serenata , Sve important matters to be ..- ‘settled and” preferaniyy’: -* ‘announcement! were highly critical. RESPONSIBLE . Mr. Brown took ‘ sonal responsibility for the decision to withdraw British Forces and grant ‘ independence by the 36th even though negotiations i with Aden’s " National Liberation Front in Geneva are not expected to start until next week. Lord Shackieton, Minis- ter without Portfolio, wil] lead the British delegation, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Shadow Foreign Secretary, ran Labour protests when he told Mr. Brown that if the road to Aden'‘s independence had been rough, jt was the Govern- meni’s responsibility, But he pledged the Oppasition’s co-operation over a auick and successful evacuation. “TI take it.” said Sir Alec, “that the saming of the date, which I am bound to aay I would not have done myself, was on the High Commissioner's recom- mendation?" - . Mr. Brown answered: per- — hegotiations cannot. be completed before’ indepen- dence there |s nothing to » stop them ope tinuing as between independent countries.” : He told a questioner: “1 see a considerable chance of a stabie Government taking over when we leave.” Mr. Peter Tapsell (Tory, Horncastle) said it had been - the declared policy of suc- - cessive Governments to give — * before independence, but “a a a f ‘Mr. Thomson made no attempt to disguise the fact that prospects of a settle-- ment, had gone backwards rather than forwards. In the Commons he described his report as “sombre” and .6aid: “ The differences between to British territories not our pesitlen and Mr. Smith's merely independence, put Proved even greater. than independence under a rule earlier digcussions had of law and a democratically | | indicated. elected Government, ; ‘BLACK? — Mr. Thomsen was sorry to report that thé kind of changes Mr. Smith now\wished to make in the Tiger constitutional pian “Don't you realise that | “were of a kind that would Particularly for those of us | fundamentally “ affect their who believe in we modern } nature. rr - Commonwea at the oo _ handling of this situation by . CHANGES the Government is a very black day in our Sritish history ?" he declared. Mr. Brown: “I believe when the dust has died down that not only the country here, not only Arabia and the Middle East, but also Tory MP.s will realise that, given the situa- tion we started from, we have done a tremendous fob in getting it sorted out this At “a Press conference later Mr. Thomson said that he had wid Mr. Smith that the con- stitutional changes pitoposed could not be reconciled with the British Government's principles. The alternative, he sald, waa’ “a period of intensification ‘of sanctions" to dispel the view in Khodesia that sanctions were a three-year wonder Britain, and the world would get FI\HE Government now faces the “ht gtindlng, war'-of’ economle afteition, a. ‘stage of “the ‘Rhodestan* atspute. “conclusion from Commonwéalth Secretary Thomson's report yesterday on his Salisbur; of ‘which. probability This : fs “I do not betier tions have failed,” son told his Press “¥ do not belicy Smith thinks they ee added: “R. scrabble an exister is a vast way from which Rhodesia + U.D.1." In the Commons * Paget (Lab; oN, tried unsuoccessfulls emergency debate failure of the Gos open negotiations obstruction of tr Bhodesia,” Sir Gerald Nab South Worcestershi: in just over two y has lost about & worth of trade. ¢ Africa. . Pay up, co: MOSCOW, = Tuesda today raised to 20 | “economic penalties from factories whos performance is poor January their pay “Responsibility for naming Way weary. to eltents—not th