h . , 7 - --Your vicious attack in the current issue of your ii 4 l per
on the honour of the Prime Minister and on leadership of Sir Roy Welensky and Sir Robert irthitage is indeed surprising—even nauseating. Is !t,P not another side of the picture relevant and Tessary to a true and balanced understanding of 'Ile-- Problem? Why not be fair and tell the whole °rY? It must ho. remembered that' less than one tindred years ago Nyasaland was sunk in hopeless lio 41'1 y. and woe. It is only a small country, about ode size of Scotland, and financially could not stand its own feet without the aid generously and con-
stantly given by the other two members of the Federation (N. and S. Rhodesia). According to Sir Roy Welensky 'the white man has brought to Nyasa- land not only a vast' amount of capital but justice, freedom and economic progress.' The 7,000 Euro- peans who live in the country are outnumbered almost forty to one by Africans. but they are needed to introduce capital and provide leadership—as they are doing. I think it will assist us to a fuller under- standing of the position if we consider the words of the High Commissioner for the area, Sir Gilbert Rennie, in a comment recently published by Rhodesia House. This document reads: 'Who coming new to the matter would guess from the Report that here is a land where in five or six years since Federation started industrial openings for Africans have multiplied and wages greatly increased, great strides are being made in education, many thousands of Africans have be- come eligible for the franchise, Africans are influen- tial in the legislature and some of them are beginning to appear as ministers, where in short every dis- cernible change is in the direction of bringing more advancement'for Africans or. integrating them more fully into public life?'—Yours faithfully, Punerana, Co. Donegal
HARRY P. SWAN
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