Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 28, 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday. May 28, red peril stalking British Basutoland by Jack Halpert Maseru Basutoland special owns the British Colony of Basutoland which is totally sur rounded by South Africa is on the verge of constitutional Hele s Congress party is opposed to local communists some of its members Are at least Friendly to Russia. The French publication East and West recently reprinted an interview Given to pravda by changes leading to self the Congress party s official so Cairo representative. Asked to i comment on the recently pub Hele Leader of Basutoland s con-1 program of the communist government. But gathering around criticism is Etsu Moke Gress party. The Congress party is Basutoland s strongest and Best organized party and or. To Kehele has put the tiny and impoverished enclave 11.716 Square Miles on the map in pan africanist circles by gaining a place on the steering committee of the ail african people s con Ference in Accra. J until now he seemed destined to be Basutoland s first prime j minister when it gains responsible government from Britain and had been emphatic in denouncing violence anti White ism and communism. But this image of or. Mok Kehele and his party has been flatly contradicted during the past two months by the Leader in person or by his top lieutenants and this has not gone unremarked by the Basurto. By the British administration nor presumably by Accra whence he is known to receive much of his financial and other support. Last month Jack Rosiane and 14 other members of the party were Given stiff sentences for organizing Public violence. Or. Rosiane who got 10 years hard party of Basutoland or. Mok Kehele s representative said this is a document of great Force. I agree with its he went on to say people dented that his recognized the a Prece Kehele s prestige there is no doubt his party committed to Carbon Thebes organized in the Terri tory. His Loyal critics Are More Over reassured by the thought that there is at least one younger Man capable of taking Over the leadership should or. Moke Hele s autocratic hold on the party machine be broken. Amonte his party s opponents is the Basutoland National party under chief Jonathan Labua who is universally liked. This party which now strongly Dis of the soviet j claims the pro Kussian Catholic that he believed the i sympathies with which its Oppon 1___._ in a it program of the communist party of the soviet Union provided a guide and source of strength to Basutoland africans in their struggle against hated colonial ism. Best organized despite the slump in or. Mok Trinidad Constitution Date soon London Reuters Brit Ain is expected to errant Independence to Trinidad this year As the result of a constitutional otherwise known As Prince Ber conference opening Here monday j eng surrounded with Partick Eric Williams the Premier of i thorny problems. Labor is one of or. Moth Cycle s Trinidad and the nearby Small Only 23, Prince Bereng has had Island of Tobago is leading a a Western education. Para ends have tarred it is improving its organization and gaining in membership. Chief Jonathan now plans to petition the United nations to put Basutoland under some form of special relation with the in trusteeship Council thus replacing British Rule and Protection against South Africa. British col onial servants could remain if they wished and were wanted As part of the in personnel. Any physical move by or. Verwoerd would then involve him in a direct clash with the in who would at the same time have a foothold in tha heart of South Africa. Thorny problem in the present constitutional uncertainty the future of the Para mount chief Mosho shoe ii in aides. The Crown alleged thai accused acting As members of the Basutoland Congress party. 17-Man delegation in talks sex toxic ally it is this education and peeled to last about two weeks i intense desire to see Basurto the with Reginald Maudling Brit j Ianc become a modern and viable Ain s colonial Secretary. J the purpose is to produce a Western style state which complicates his position. For he wishes to take a direct and Active part in his country s affairs. He has made it Clear that he does not wish to be merely a constitutional Monarch. In this he has backing of one Small political party the Marema thou. Of the other parties not even the recently formed communist party dares to speak directly against the Paramount chief and probably Only the communists would wish to do so. The Paramount chief is accepted and endorsed by most of these intensely proud and nationalistic Mountain people. But abuses of the arbitrary rights by chiefs to allocate or revoke land holdings have caused much bitterness. Personal debt the chieftain ship has failed to tally to Reform itself. The real question now is whether Prince Bereng could survive if the chief Tai ship were stripped of its land Powers and thus formally Bro Ken. He has taken no stand on this or on directly political issues but his position is complicated by several other factors he is a roman Catholic in a highly denominational country and he owes a personal and political debt to the Marema thou party which was instrumental in ensuring his succession against opposition from his aunt the former Regent. Prince Bereng s negotiations for financial Aid in the United states and Canada during his visit this year have pleased the Basurto who Are almost univer Sally under the impression that the world is queueing up to give or lend them Money. Copyright 1962 observer foreign news service had planned Public and Independent Constitution j Criminate violence with the and fix Date for Independence i object of causing the Whites to for the West Indian Island and i flee the country and overthrow to people. I ing the government. Trinidad s government has the trial put or. To Kehele asked for Independence this i As president of the Congress j year and All indications Are party in an embarrassing Posi that Britain is willing to Grant Tion. Not least because when he was called As a defence witness to testify to his movement s Prin Ciple of non violence the prose cution sought to destroy his Tes Timony by quoting verbatim from speeches he had made in other parts of Africa notably in Ghana. Basutoland has no White settlers anal Only Basurto can own land Here. Traders hold their land at the pleasure of the Para mount chief and inter racial relations though by no Means Ideal presents no real problem in what is recognized to be an african territory heading for african Rule. But when or. Mok j he Hete was invited to be the guest speaker at a Public meeting in Multi racial Swaziland he greatly embarrassed his hosts by making a bitterly anti White speech. Live Issue it. The Only question would therefore appear to be that of timing. Williams said sunday he would like to see Independence granted before the meeting of the Commonwealth prime ministers scheduled for sept. 10, to discuss Britain s common mar Ket negotiations. The territory now has inter Nal self government. The original expectation had been that Trinidad and Tobago would achieve sovereignty As part of the 10-Island West in federation at the end of is month. But this federation and but perhaps the most import j Tant element in the crisis now j brewing around or. To Kehele is connected with communism. This is a very live Issue in Basil j . Where an official communist party has recently been established under British Protection in the very heart of or. Verwoerd s South Africa. The roman Catholic Church i considers the combating of communism in the country As one of its major tasks and until now. It seemed that it had As a strange i bedfellow the anti clerical a n d j especially anti Catholic president of the Congress party. Or. To Kehele has been carry ing on a verbal offensive against j communism and his markedly unfriendly attitude towards some i South african refugees in Basil Tol Ancl has ostensibly been based on his fear that some of them had communist sympathies. Denunciation last year he denounced Nelson Mandela the underground Leader i of the banned african National i Congress in South Africa say-1 ing i hate these so called free room fighters who Are mostly j communist inspired and who j Are interested in crippling j nationalist movements by their tricks and yet. The local anti communist league a Mccarthy Type organization has information which suggests that while or. Moke United names its Independence Hopes were i wrecked when Jamaica its big 1 Gest unit seceded and Trinidad also decided to withdraw. Jamaica becomes Independent in i augusts. Ask Cubr Money in Hufe. Clean up left Over bids fast phone beneficial today left Over Bills time payment accounts heavy expenses clean them up with Cash from beneficial. Then make Only one payment instead of several. Have More Cash left Over each month. 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