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Secretary . Suddenly everything changed . Timetables were
Federal Government were getting valuable experience in
administration . Then Mr. Iain Macleod became Colonial
scrapped . The ill-conceived Monckton Commission was
politicians were inflated into international figures .
in Rhodesia ! Eighteen months ago this territory
HOW the Government must repent its haste and folly
was peaceful , orderly , and thriving . Africans within the
rushed out to Rhodesia . Overnight , minor African
No wonder there is doubt and fearful heart-searching .
TODAY , in London , that rash and thoughtless policy has
difficulties from African politicians greedy for power .
of change , so the Africans stepped up their demands .
caused a crisis - a crisis that never should have happened .
Africans control in Northern Rhodesia it may indeed face
If the Government now reverses its plan to give the
And as the British Government stepped up the pace
fastest ? That is the exciting competition going on
Macmillan and his ministers there is no choice . They
But if it fails to modify that plan Rhodesia may well
among Britain's major industries .
repair the damage they have done . WHO can grow the
be plunged into chaos , like the Congo . For Mr.
must safeguard Rhodesia against chaos . And try to
factory building this year is likely to be 40 per cent
their faith with cash .
Top of the table , at the moment , is the chemical industry .
up on 1960 . Britain's business men are right to back
tremendous upsurge in investment . It reports that new
Even the staid and timid Treasury is cheered by the
Then comes engineering , followed by iron and steel .
the 88-year-old standard bearer of the Ban-
prosperity tomorrow . BERTRAND RUSSELL ,
issues of our time .
the-Bomb crusade , has devoted following .
too . It is said by some that he is a saint ; by
others that he is a prophet . He is , in fact , a
For expansion today means still greater
philosopher with a highly developed sense of publicity
who has been spectacularly wrong on the great
Thousands march with him - and sit with him
that freedom last if their policies were adopted ?
to welcome Hitler's troops as tourists .
After the war he favoured a preventive war against
defences . Throughout the years Lord Russell
and his supporters have been able to pursue their
Russia . Now he wants Britain to demolish her
ask themselves this question : How long would
eccentric campaigns in freedom . They should
BEFORE the war he urged the British people
has been appointed to smooth out difficulties for
Happy patrolling , Mr. Finlay !
householders when trenches are dug outside their
mile route in Surrey . A warden , Mr. Jack Finlay ,
front gates . Splendid . By showing concern
AN experiment in courtesy is launched by the Electricity
Board . The board is laying a cable along a seven-
for the people the board will earn their good will .
resolute Premier of the Rhodesian Federation
shakes the life out of his critics . He calls them
Welensky justified in being so harsh to those who
against African fanatics and woolly minded
disagree with him ? The facts answer that .
GOOD for Sir Roy Welensky ! The tough ,
individuals in the West . Some may ask : Is
" jelly-boned . " He promises to preserve federation
months . And what has it made of the Congo ?
CONTRAST his firm , successful rule in Rhodesia
Welensky has lost all patience with his
misguided tormentors .
into practice . There a UNO army of Africans ,
A bloodstained shambles . No wonder
bossed by an Indian , has been in charge for
with what has happened in the Congo . There
Welensky's opponents have carried their theories
Office Savings Bank shows how wrong that
to 19 .
contempt . SOME people are for ever complaining
when they get it . Now a survey of the Post
that teenagers earn too much and spend it all
They have earned his strictures . And his
idea is . The biggest group of depositors in
the bank is made of boys and girls aged 15
They say that our farmers do not seem to
that in the most prosperous days in this
farmers for fighting against Danish competition .
people . THE Danes are annoyed with British
should still have a powerful appeal for young
Certainly teenagers earn more than ever before .
Certainly they spend more . But how splendid
understand the meaning of free trade .
country's history the old-fashioned virtue of thrift
now supplanted Britain as Denmark's
by free trade . It is that they should be free
principal supplier . The farmers of Britain
There is no doubt what the Danes understand
more and more from our rivals . Germany has
it .
to sell as much as they like , while buying
understand free trade . That is why they fight