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'The only way to defend freedom Is to assert it.' 1886-1961 A. J. P. TAYLOR Our ^ Anniversary This Month 7W£ 4/Mrt0 0 /Sr WEEKLY-4d. ■TOBER I f I96I Vol 22 No 33 Mac’s Guessing Game g Y his cabinet shuffle Mr. Mac market a whole industry of experts, witnesses swear to “tell the truth, millan has given the political interpreters, journalists whose job the whole truth and nothing but the i f e commentators of our mass organs of it is to ferret out the “news” from truth,” the lawyers on both sides communications plenty to speculate the confidants of the big men, such then proceed to cross-examine them ' about. “End of a liberal era?” asks as their chauffeurs, chamber-maids in order to prove that they are only the Guardian; “ ‘Get Tougher’ Cabi and butlers. telling lies!). net” affirms the Daily Worker; “A Indeed if a Prime Minister were Why is it that all respectable new crown prince for the Tories”, to be so democratic as to disclose . parents attempt to teach their child the Herald assures us, and so on. the reasons for his actions it is ren to tell the truth in preparation A * visitor from outer space could almost certain that the Press would for their going out into a world in A * 1 . well be forgiven if he expressed sur either accuse him of lying, or praise which they learn that the hall mark prise at the fact that the only person, his political astuteness in putting his •of “success” is one’s ability to hide the Prime Minister, who could give political rivals off the scent of the- one’s feelings and the truth in one’s a first-hand account of the reason truth. The trouble with telling the dealings with others? for the Cabinet shuffle, is the pnly truth is that it would so simplify one who says nothing! The game the relations between men that for WHEN IS A DICTATOR NOT of politics would obviously lose many of them the whole spice of A DICTATOR? much of its importance, and mystery life would be lost. Apart from the jyjORE in sorrow than in anger ISfeflfe if the leading politicians were to politicians, think of the business A the Observer and its Common explain to the public each move men trying to pull the wool over wealth correspondent Colin Legum, they made, apart from the fact that the eyes of a prospective client at are having to recognise that Mr. it would remove from the labour a business lunch; of the advertising Nkrumah’s latest move in arresting men thinking up how to glamourize and imprisoning without trial fifty a miserable packet of detergent or a members of the opposition, coupled tin of bullet-hard peas; of the union or his attempt to join the Communist with the fact that he no longer enjoys leaders who build up the image of the support of a majority of the Party. “My reasons were greater than themselves as indispensable to the that,” the Minister said. ✓ Ghanaian people, lays him open to interests of the workers; of the self- IE FREE WORLD Mr. Downer told the House that Mr. the charge of ruling as a dictator. importance of millions of petty JFRICA: PROFESSOR ACCUSED | synod last March he took a stand Henry Bolton Basten, Vice-Chancellor Mr. Legum maintains however that officials who under their uniforms Despite things said about Ghana in against the ban on non-white member of Adelaide University; had told the ■HERESY assistant secretary of immigration, Mr. are more miserable creatures than the past, two facts remained true until Durban. October 5. ship of the Church and was warned with others not to oppose existing Church Ronald Harris, that if Mr. Brenner did their would-be victims! Think of the present crisis hit the country last | A. S. Geyser. Professor of New law and not to criticise Church policy not come to Australia it would not be what would happen to our Courts of month. It has not become an authori a serious problem for the university. tarian State, and Dr. Nkrumah was not Jbent Theology at Pretoria Univer- outside the Church. Dr. Geyser said “Justice” and the machinery of pun pThao Logical Faculty, which is run today that he was shocked that students Mr. Basten also said that the univer ishment and enforcement of the law a dictator. Whatever criticisms were RDie Nederduits-Hervormde Kerk, is had preferred a heresy charge against sity would not pursue the matter further if everybody were to tell the truth. felt about the Nkrumah regime (and Jn tc £ a heresy charge. Dr. Geyser has if the Government felt there was a him and he asked for a public hearing It is a curious fact that though both Continued on page 3 J B h boldly attacked race discrimina- strong security risk. Mr. Downer said by the Church Commission. Mr. Harris told Mr. Basten that he B h in the Church as being unscriptural (Guardian). |H d has defied efforts of the Hervormde would not divulge the information given Pkerk.ti^muzzie him. about Mr. Brenner to anyone, including He waRrecently told to resign from AUSTRALIA:' LECTURER BANNED the Chancellor of the University. Elbe university within a specified period, AS SECURITY RISK « (Reuter). STATISTICALLY INEVITABLE? ! but before the time had expired he was Canberra, October 4. ACCORDING to a report in the “Both East and West are developing I served with two charges—one of heresy, The Australian Minister of Immigra SWITZERLAND: REFERENDUM ON [ the jotfifer of disregarding an order pro- tion, Mr. Alexander Downer, told the Daily Express, America is city-busting rockets which will soon be I hibking criticisms of Church laws or House of Representatives here tonight H-WEAPONS spending millions of dollars on an completely automatic and ready for in B decisions. The charges were laid by that Mr. Y. S. Brenner, a graduate of Geneva, September 27. anti-missile device which will shoot stant response at the touch of a few I some of his senior students. London University, was refused an entry The Swiss House of Representatives down any buttons. He denied the charges when he ap- visa for Australia because he was a today decided by an overwhelming Russian rocket which might be fired “We are rapidly reaching the point | pea red before a Church disciplinary strong security risk. majority (147 to 12) to recommend to by technical or human error. where the question of a mistake is criti I committee this week, but the committee Mr. Downer made his statement after the nation the rejection in a forth Nike-Zeus is a 200-mile range missile cal. I am afraid we are moving in the I decided that there was a prima facie case coming under strong Opposition fire for coming plebiscite of a proposal for the with an atomic warhead designed to direction where a nuclear. exchange is 1 against him. The synodal commission accepting security reports on Mr. Bren “prohibition of the production, import, destroy an incoming H-bomb in the air inevitable statistically — not because I is expected to meet later this month to ner, a 34-year-old German-born Israeli, transit, stocking, or use of all kinds of without detonating it . it could shoot somebody wants it, but because it just I consider the charges and hear Dr. Gey- who had been appointed to a lectureship atomic weapons.” down Mr. Krushchev’s 100-megaton happens.” | ser's defence. If be is pronounced in economic history at Adelaide Univer The move to ban the bomb in Switzer warheads. We wonder what the “Peace ■„ guilty, he will be unfrocked and dis- sity. land was originally due to Communist Mr. Richard Morse of the U.S. through balanced nuclear strength” J missed from the faculty post. Mr. Downer said the risk would have initiative, but gradually attracted sup Army Defence Science Board is advocates advise in this eventuality? Last year he figured prominently in been “so grave that any Minister with port from non-Communist pacifists. In quoted as saying that: The argument that because each | the controversy over the book “Delayed a sense of responsibility in the interest April, 1959, the extra-parliamentary pro Action”, in which he and ten other of this country could not possibly have side have nuclear weapons of equal cedure was invoked by a motion with strength neither dare risk retaliation Dutch Reformed Churchmen condemned granted Mr. Brenner a visa.” The re 72,795 valid signatures. In July the race discrimination and demanded a new fusal of the visa was not because of Mr. Swiss Government proposed to Parlia by starting war can hardly apply (if South African racial outlook. At the Brenner’s activities in the Stern Gang ment that the “ban-the-bomb” motion it ever did) in a situation where con should be submitted to a nation-wide H-Bomb Protest trol has become impossible. referendum with the recommendation Even if we assume that the Army that it should be rejected. Science Board are, for military Dr. Wahlen, the President of the Con by Artists and reasons, exaggerating the inevita federation, stressed on behalf of the bility of error we cannot ignore the Government that „ the ban-the-bomb W riters possibility. motion should be rejected. He said that It is said that the rocket early- several countries already had the bomb Fifty-nine leading British artists, musi An AnarchistWBft- Ball warning system in this country and that “it is not by closing one's eyes cians and writers have signed a statement 9 WILL BE HELD AT FULHAM TOWN HALL that one removes evil.” protesting at the “immorality of present operating with Nike-Zeus could ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 AT 7.30 Dr.