SHIP FOR ANGOLA
“Silly Action Bv Britain”
(N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 15
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Gaitskell) yesterday criticised an Admiralty decision to send HM.S. Leopard to Angola on a goodwill mission. In a speech at Dunfermline. Scotland, he described the mission as a “very silly action of the British Government. I must say I was astonished when I read of it,” he said. “I don't know what the Admiralty is up to. “A tew weeks ago they calmly disembarked nine coloured ratings because it was thought it might be embarrassing to go to South Africa with them on board. "Yet today a goodwill visit is paid by H.M.S. Leopard to Angola, and it will not be looked on as goodwill to the Africans, but the Portuguese Government. "The attitude of Africans everywhere to the very silly action of the British Government must be to regard it as expressing sympathy with the most reactionary Government in Africa," Mr Gaitskell said
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 15
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162SHIP FOR ANGOLA Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 15
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