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...Todd both as Prime Minister and as head of the Southern Rhodesian division of the United Federal Party. Though considered less impulsive on racial partnership than Todd, Sir Edgar, for all his moderation, barely won. Coming up fast on the right of Southern Rhodesia politics is the white supremacy Dominion Party, which until February had only four seats out of 30 in Parliament. Last week the Dominion Party actually led the popular vote...
Both Whitehead and his opponent of the white-supremacy Dominion Party-Jack Pain, a bluff and genial Bulawayo accountant and city council member-left no doubt that they wanted to maintain the white man's unfettered rule over the blacks, who outnumbered them 13 to 1 in Southern Rhodesia. But White Supremacist Pain argued in the campaign that the United Federal Party, even with Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead...
...third cast ballots last week. But Britain is leaving the invaluable tradition of democracy and justice, and it will also subsidize the federation for a while. The next steps-inevitable because the Colonial Office wills it-will be slow withdrawals of Lord Hailes's power, followed eventually by dominion status...
...date Salisbury (pop. 190,700), Southern Rhodesia's capital, during a tense congress of the party that ground on for eleven hours, Todd's critics put their case: in the elections scheduled later this year, Todd would be a liability in the battle against the white-supremacy Dominion Party. For 1½ hours Todd spoke in his own defense, and on the first ballot to determine a party leader, Todd topped the poll. The leader of the reactionary faction, Sir Patrick Fletcher, was eliminated from the race. But on the next ballot Todd mustered only 129 votes...
...five years before the islands get dominion status (to be followed by independence), the Governor General, a figurehead in many Commonwealth nations, will have real power in the West Indies. A 45-member House of Representatives will be chosen in elections, the first next March 25, and the members will select a Prime Minister. But the 19-member Senate will be appointed by Lord Hailes, and it can hold up the House's legislation. As Queen's representative, the Governor General will have the veto over finance bills...