Victory for Partnership

Segregation of blacks and whites into separate states v. "racial partnership" was the issue last week in the first election in Britain's new Central African Federation, which is an amalgam of the Rhodesias and neighboring Nyasaland. Sir Godfrey Huggins' Federal Party took its stand on Cecil Rhodes's dictum, "Equal rights for all civilized men." Hugginsmen believe that a color bar is still necessary in primitive Africa, but gradually they hope to remove it, as the Negroes "come of age." Opposing Huggins are the diehard Confederates. Many of Northern Rhodesia's white copper miners are Boer immigrants who support the segregation policies of South Africa's Daniel Malan. Only 64,000 whites--and 444 Africans --voted last week. They decided for the Federalists, and "racial partnership," by better than 4 to 1 vote. The results in terms of seats in Central Africa's first Federal Parliament were even more onesided: Federalists 24, Confederates 1, Independents 1. With this kind of support, 70-year-old Sir Godfrey Huggins would be a strong and popular Prime Minister.

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