Author Patrick Keatley Publisher Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex U.S.A. : Penguin Books Incs., 3300 Clipper Mill Road, Baltimore 11, Md Australia: Penguin books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road, Mitcham, Victoria Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox and Wynam Ltd London, Reading, and Fakenham Set in Monotype Plantin. Category Politics Language English
Book Profile In Central Africa, where the white settlers command their own army and airforce, Britain may have to face an ‘Algeria’ – or something worse – if they and the British Government do not make real sacrifices.
That is the opinion expressed by the Commonwealth Correspondent of the Guardian in this study of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. It is a gloomy picture, and the somewhat sinister operations of the European ‘Copper Lobby’ – with its gigantic stake in Katanga-can only, he feels, widen the gap that separates Dr Banda, Kenneth Kaunda, and Joshua Nkomo from Sir RoyWelensky, Sir Edgar Whitehead, and Winston Field.
In relating the present to the past Patrick Keatley shows Cecil Rhodes, not as the theCape-to-Cairo visionary, but simply as the political ancestor of Sir Roy; and LordSalisbury, the Victorian PrimeMinister, as the fore-runner of today’s Secretaries of State. Thus the fierce irrationalism of the settlers now is only a natural extension of the outlook of eighty years ago. Suggesting that U.N.O. could help to avert disaster in the Federation, the author finishes with a clear and cogent argument for intervention.
