The Case of Mr. Todd
S18.---'No one in this country,' says Quoodle, 'will have any other words than those of contemptuous condemnation for Mr. Smith's action in restricting Garfield Todd to his Rhodesian farm.' Provided Mr. Todd is innocent of the charge that he has been consorting with suspected tcrrorists,and law-breakers, Quoodlc's expression of collective condemnation could conceivably be accurate.
Would Quoodle find stronger language, though, for Mr. Nyerere who has detained in prison and without trial for over two years ten members of the former and democratically elected Zanzibari Cabinet? Or nearer the Rhodesian home, would Quoodle disapprove the fate that Dr. Banda has reserved for rebel Medson Silombela who will be required to be seen in public with 'his legs swinging from a pole.' Of course it is all a question of degree, but the 48.000-acre farm must at times seem infinitely Preferable to the dungeon and the pole.
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