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...party's files, later arrested three of the party's top leaders. Explained Whitehead: "The policies of the N.D.P. are blatantly militant and anti-European." Whitehead's action needed no explanation. His United Federal Party holds only a shaky two-vote majority in the Southern Rhodesian Parliament over the extreme rightist Dominion Party,' which has been urging that Southern Rhodesia break up the Central African Federation by abandoning its ties to Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. With the chaos in the Congo seemingly confirming the worst fears of white settlers in both major parties, Whitehead knew that...
Brave Notion. As the flames of the burning African townships lit the sky around Bulawayo, police and Southern Rhodesian soldiers with fixed bayonets sealed off the African settlements, slowly began to close in. For three days the riots raged. Finally, as liquor supplies in the African quarters began to give out, order was restored. The eleven dead were the first Africans killed by white troops in Southern Rhodesia since the Mashona Rebellion was quelled...
...Todd demanded that Britain suspend Southern Rhodesia's constitution, send in troops to enforce a change toward more liberal government. But this appeal outraged even Todd's own Central African Party, which promptly ousted him from leadership, probably ending the political effectiveness of the one major Southern Rhodesian leader who advocates real racial partnership...
...automobiles returning to the city after evacuating women and children to Rhodesia were stopped at a railroad crossing. Six of the ten European occupants, including Italian Vice Consul Tito Spoglia, were shot dead, and the others seriously wounded. Cavalcades of cars bearing panicky Europeans streamed eastward to the North Rhodesian border; 3,000 crossed in a single night, and Salisbury hotel lobbies were packed with women comforting whimpering children. The U.S., British and French consuls in Elisabethville called for help. Three hundred paratroopers were rushed by air from the Belgian airbase at Kamina, and for the first time the Congolese...
...pamphlets, each African concentrates on his job regardless of the surrounding conversation, loud argument and clatter of machines. When the rooms overflow, the conversations move outside to the cellar steps or across the road to a cheap cafe. At headquarters one morning last week were representatives from the Southern Rhodesian Congress Committee Abroad, the Revolutionary Front for National Independence of Portuguese Colonies, the Tanganyika Students Association, the National Association of Socialist Students' Organizations and South Africa's African National Congress...