Listening In • I will be very careful• not to
telephone Mr. Wilson in the future. He has set a most alarming precedent by' publishing the transcript of his last telephone call to Mr. Smith. True, there is a sort of precedent. Sir Roy Welensky' in his 1- autobiography published, without permission from British ministers, many accounts, some of them one-sided, of his exchanges. He also in- cluded for good measure parts of a recording of an interview between Dr. Banda and his •legal adviser, Dingle Foot (now Solicitor-General), when both of them thought they were in privacy in Dr. Banda's cell at Gwelo prison. These are not attractive precedents, and the Prime Minister no doubt unwittingly raises an awkward question. Mr. Wilson knew he was talking 'for the record': did Mr. Smith? , There are very many telephone conversations in •Which Mr. Wilson took part which I would dearly like-to see reproduced. But naturally we are only 'going to be • allowed to read those in Which the Prime Minister appears as the Father of his country.
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