WHAT IS HAPPENING IN RHODESIA?
Mr. Eric Butler reports from Salisbury, where he had been based for a week when he wrote the following: If Rhodesia’s international friends are confused about what is taking place in Rhodesia, they may be comforted to know that as I write, five days before the Referendum on a proposed new Constitution, large numbers of Rhodesians are also confused! Amongst those who vote NO against the Rhodesian Front Government’s proposals will be many loyal supporters of the RF. They see the proposed new Constitution as containing a type of time bomb, which could explode in the future. For my own part I cannot understand why the Government decided at this particular moment to provide their powerful international enemies with an opportunity to attack them. The Rhodesian issue was quietly being forgotten in most parts of the world, and given time would have been completely pushed off the stage of world affairs by other issues. In spite of the usual propaganda by the British Socialists about the Rhodesi
