FEDERATION OF RHODESIA

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28263, 29 April 1957, Page 9

FEDERATION OF RHODESIA

Effect Of Convention On Legislation (Rec. 9 p.m.) SALISBURY (Southern Rhodesia), April 27. The Prime Minister of the Rhodesian Federation, Sir Roy Welensky, said today that the convention announced in London on Rhodesia would rule out any wish that a future Labour Government in Britain might have to try to inflict “some of their halfbaked ideas” on the Federation by legislative act. He was referring to a joint British and Federal Government statement which said that the British Government would not initiate any legislation to amend or repeal any federal act or deal with any matter on which the Federal Government was competent to legislate except at the specific request of the Federal Government. Sir Roy Welensky said: “As a result of recent utterances by a spokesman of the British Labour Party the fear has grown up here that if returned to power the Labour Party would endeavour to inflict some of their halfbaked ideas on us by legislative act. The convention rules this out.”

U.S. Ambassador To Russia Chosen

AUGUSTA (Georgia), April 27. President Eisenhower today elected Mr Llewellyn E. Thompson, now United States Ambassador to Austria, to be the new Ambassador to Russia. Mr Thompson, whose nomination will go to the Senate next week, will succeed Mr Charles E. Bohlen, who has been reassigned as Ambassador to the Philippines.