The Chronicle

BULAWAYO, Wednesday, August 5, 1970 — Partnership between Africans and Europeans is the only practical way forward for Rhodesia, says Mr Guy Clutton-Brock, treasurer of the Cold Comfort Farm Society in a pamphlet published today.

The booklet, entitled The Cold Comfort Farm Society, gives an account of the organisation, farming and social activities of the people living on the 88-acre property and deals with racial legislation in Rhodesia, particularly the Land Tenure Act.

Mr Clutton-Brock says he wrote the pamphlet because the truth about the society “should be known and not guessed at nor perverted”.

Referring to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Lance Smith, Mr Clutton-Brock says the society has “come under unwarranted and ill-informed attack” from him. The booklet marks the society’s fifth anniversary.

He says: “Partnership is not just a constitutional or commercial arrangement, but a way of life, the ways of love.

“In this country, accepting the facts of history, there is no other practical way forward . . . this is the experience of the CCFS, so we try to make the best of it and enjoy it.”

Mr Clutton-Brock writes that the society has gained a few clues about non-racial living in a multi-racial society.

He warns that with half the country’s population under the age of 17 and increasing by 3 per cent a year, solutions need to be sought to some of Rhodesia’s problems.

Mr Clutton-Brock sees the Land Tenure Act as the latest challenge to the society’s principles.