THE MONOTONOUSLY familiar official descriptions of Central African Congress movements
as tiny unrepresentative gangs of ambitious agitators, thriving by intimidation and out of touch with 'simple: Africans, fail to convince me. Certainly there is intimidation of the minority. From them the white man hears of it. But what does he hear from the majority who spontaneously back Con- gress and don't tell him so? As for being repre- sentative: Sir Edgar Whitehead's proud boast that he had had 'something like fifteen letters' from Africans applauding his suppression of Congress (he governs two million Africans) speaks for itself. The picture of the African as the 'raw savage heathen African' recently described by Mr. Stockil in the Southern Rhodesian Assembly is a thing of the past. Even in the deep reserves Africans are becoming aware of their strength and their rights, and no European to whom they will speak freely doubts this.
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