To round out the newly created Central African Federation (TIME, Sept. 21), some Britons propose to turn over to Southern Rhodesia a huge chunk of the sprawling desert protectorate of Bechuanaland. Last week Bechuanaland's southern neighbor, South Africa, spoke up in angry protest—a protest unusually strong for a land that belongs to the Commonwealth and pays homage to Elizabeth as its Queen. South Africa's dour old Prime Minister Daniel Malan warned Whitehall that any fiddling with Bechuanaland would be regarded in Cape Town as a downright "unfriendly act"; in retaliation, South Africa...
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