Ancestral voices
LETTERS
From: Patrick Wall, MP, 14 dawn Aiton, T. Doganis, Frank Dunne, C. G. F. Munton, Lady de Zulueta, Timothy Beardson, J. M. Ita, M. J. H. Liversidge, C. G. C. Young, E. N. Smedley Aston, Sonia Cubit:. Roger North, G. N. S. Hunt. J. S. Potter.
Sir : Denis Brogan (Table Talk, 9 August) refers to me as the devoted defender of the 5 per cent white population of Rhodesia and goes on to say that the Bantu is despised and rejected today in Southern Rhodesia.
My view is that the majority of Rhodesian Africans today support Mr Smith's government because he has brought peace to the townships and has increased the status of the chiefs whom the rural Africans support. Of course, this situa- tion could alter but that it exists today is shown by the fact that guerrillas are picked up by the security forces because of information given by Rhodesian Africans.
I do not believe that that universal panacea of one-man-one-vote is right for Rhodesia, indeed events elsewhere in Africa hive illus- trated its ineffectiveness. It is because I support the majority of Rhodesians, black and white, that I shall continue to work for a compromise settlement between Britain and Rhodesia know- ing that any alternative will force Rhodesia closer to South Africa and towards apartheid.
It is now fairly obvious that Rhodesia can-
not be beaten and it is therefore the so-called ill t
'liberals' that are leading the Africans down the garden path towards apartheid by insisting on the overthrow of the Smith government by extended sanctions or by the use of force.
Patrick Wall Brantinghamthorp, nr. Brough, E. Yorks.
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