Restriction Spectator readers will be familiar with the name of
Leo Baron and will have read that the Rhodesian authorities served a restriction order on him last weekend for 'activities prejudicial to law and order.' He is to be confined to an area within fifteen miles of Bulawayo post'office. Mr. Baron has certainly been an embarrassment to the Rhodesian government from time to time. As a lawyer he has conducted a running light in the courts against the restriction orders served on Joshua Nkomo. In an article 'The Mathematics of Southern Rhodesia' (Spectator, July 24, 1964) he was one of the first people to show up the hollowness of Sir Edgar Whitehead's claim that under the existing Rhodesian constitution there could be a small African majority in about twelve years' time. Later he was again one of the first people to draw attention to the number of African restrictees being held in Gonakudzingwa. An embarrassment certainly, but it seems a strange time for the Rhodesians to start indulg- ing in this kind of South African persecution. I thought they were anxious to show their readiness for independence.
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