Light Through the Tunnel A series of nine essays by
Southern Rho- desians, including Garfield Todd, Sir Robert Tredgold and Enoch Dumbutshena, has just been published. They discuss the present political impasse thoughtfully, realistically and on the whole hopefully. The general theme is that there is still (just) time for a peaceful transition to majority rule. No prizes are offered for guessing why Quoodle selects the following quotation from the contribution by Enoch Dumbutshena: 'A highly placed Cabinet Minister in Dr. Kaunda's Government once told me, after a heated argument on the United National Inde- pendence Party's acceptance of the Macleod Constitution, that his party had accepted it in order to give the followers a break. "We have been struggling for a long time without results: our people must see some advance towards our objective." In the minds of Pan-African Nationalists that Constitution was thoroughly bad: yet Dr. Kaunda saw in it the break that has now led his party to victory. We need such a break in Southern Rhodesia. We have been at daggers drawn for too long a time.'
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