Anglo-rhodesian Society and City of London Racialists

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By chance, I have come across a somewhat sinister anonymous leaflet on Rhodesia, It is a four-page printed documents of about 1,500 words. It can only be described as racialist. It is not positively know who printed it or who published it as no such information appears on the leaflet. But who has_ produced this leaflet? Well, one clue is contained in the final sentence of the leaflet -- "it has befallen to a small group of British financiers and bankers within the City of London to issue this clarion call, who for very obvious reasons must remain anonymous." The very vague address of "Threadneedle Street, London E.C.2." is all that is printed on the end of the Leaflet. This leaflet is now circularizing in the Hull area. It happens to co-incide with a forthcoming meeting to be held by the Hull Anglo-Rhodesian Society on March 18, 7.30 pem, at the Hull Royal Station Hotel. The speakers at this meeting are to be Patrick Wall, the Tory right-wing Labour MP for West Hull, The subject of the meeting is to be sanctions and the effect on Britain, The 'City of London' interests who have produced the leaflet have this to say about sanctions: "It is not the imposition of sanctions against Rhodesia in itself which is the canker in our midst. It is the wholesale flight of capital from Britain which causes the City alarm." This"small group of British financiers and bankers within the City of London" are quite crude in their racialism: -- "Unfortunately, the crux of the whole matter is simply for the mass of 'Commonwealth citizens' living and sponging in our midst." It is quite reasonable to suppose that this leaflet is at least in part produced by the Anglo-Rhodesian Society because the particular copies of it that I have seen all bear the rubber-stamp mark of Ernest Gay, a Hull life-insurance underwriter and chairman of the forthcoming meeting mentioned above. Needless to say, Hull's antiracialist Left is preparing a counter offensive. The above report should be read in conjunction with TH WEEK article on "Who's Who in British Racialism" which appeared in Feb. 2 issue.