Forgotten man
Sir: I would like to draw attention in your letter columns to the lamentable case of Mr Garfield Todd, former Premier of Rhodesia. He seems a forgotten man, yet this unfortunate politician, imprisoned, never accused of any particular crime, never brought to trial, and finally placed under the familiar South African-type 'house arrest' on his own farm for the past four years, as a 'security risk' to the Ian Smith regime, still remains for all purposes incarcerated, not allowed to speak to anyone other than his immediate family and staff, forbidden to keep in touch with his exiled daughter (herself brutally forcibly fed in the early stages of a hunger strike in a Rhodesian prison) by letter. When will the British Government, when will the New Zealand Government (Mr Todd is a New Zealander) bring pressure to bear on the Rhodesian authorities to lift this cruel, repressive ban on an ageing man once highly placed as the Premier of the country he now lives in?
M. J. Baylis 9 Muirdown Avenue, East Sheen, London SW14
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