Foreign News: In Rhodesia: Compromise

Fearful of black terror to the north of them and of Boer chauvinism to the south, 200,000 Britons in the Central African colonies drew closer together in self-protection. A majority of them hoped to build a strong new British dominion of Rhodesia, ruled at first by the white minority, but promising gradually to extend political rights to its 6,000,000 black dependents.

The settlers' hopes rest on Central African Federation, a plan to unite self-governing Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (TIME. Feb. 9). Last week in the House of Commons, 6,000 miles away, Tory Colonial...

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