SIR.—The publicity given recently to the Federation of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland, with its comment, fair and not so fair, has made some of us feel how ignorant we are about affairs in our own land. But I wish to point out one grave injustice done us by your contributor Mr. Creighton. In his article 'Manu- facturing Martyrs' of March 6, he writes: 'The most pregnant and tragic folly of the Southern Rhodesian Government is the arrest of Mr. Guy Clutton-Brock' Surely Mr. Creighton, knows that there should be no discrimination between a black man and a white man in a country which practises partnership? It was considered necessary in the interests of public security to arrest all members of the African National Con- gress, and therefore Mr. Clutton-Brock was arrested (detained would be a more accurate word) with the other African members.
No action could have demonstrated more clearly our determination in Southern Rhodesia not to coun- tenance one law for the African and another for the European.—Yours faithfully,
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