1.
GV SALISBURY - ELECTION POSTER ON TREE
0.06

2.
CU CAMPAIGN POSTERS (2 SHOTS)
0.13

3.
SV WHITE RHODESIAN GIRL AND AFRICAN BOY TYING POSTER TO POST
0.16

4.
GV EXT..RHODESIAN FRONT BUILDING
0.20

5.
CU INT.."YES" POSTER ZOOM OUT TO GIRLS PACKING CAMPAIGN LITERATURE (3 SHOTS)
0.38

6.
GV MR DE KOCK AND MR VAN DER BYL JOIN ABOVE (2 SHOTS)
0.52

7.
CU CAMPAIGN LITERATURE ON TABLE
0.56

8.
SV & CU AFRICAN PUTTING UP RHODESIAN FRONT POSTER (2 SHOTS)
1.07

9.
CU INT.."VOTE NO" POSTER OF CENTRE PARTY ZOOM OUT TO CAMPAIGN WORKERS (2 SHOTS)
1.16

10.
CU AFRICAN STANDING BY POSTER
1.20

11.
CU CAMPAIGN WORKERS WITH "VOTE NO" POSTERS
1.28

12.
GV EXT..GARDEN, INTERVIEWER SEATED WITH BISHOP OF MASHONALAND
1.31

13.
CU DITTO SOF....
2.36


TRANSCRIPT (SEQ 13): INTERVIEWER: "ARE YOU PERSONALLY AGAINST THE PROPOSALS?"



REV. BURROUGH: "I AM, YES. I THINK THEY'RE PERILOUS. BUT I'M NOT DESPERATELY DOWNCAST, I DON'T BELIEVE THIS COUNTRY IS A COUNTRY OF THE GOODIES AND THE BADDIES FIGHTING ONE ANOTHER. I BELIEVE THERE IS A VAST AMOUNT OF MISUNDERSTANDING. I BELIEVE THAT HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY HAS NEVER BEEN REGARDED BY EITHER SIDE IN THIS STRUGGLE VERY PROPERLY, BUT THAT, IF THIS CONSTITUTION GOES THROUGH, AND THINGS DETERIORATE TERRIBLY, THEN WE QUIETLY TURN AROUND AND TRY AND GET PEOPLE TO THINK DIFFERENTLY. I'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN IN OTHER COUNTRIES."



INTERVIEWER: "BISHOP, YOU ARE NOW IN FACT, ARE YOU NOT, INVOLVED IN POLITICS."



REV BURROUGH: "IN A STRICT SENSE -- YES. BUT I SHOULD SAY THAT THE CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE AND THE CHRISTIAN FAITH REALLY CAME BEFORE POLITICS IN THE MODERN SENSE, AND THAT THE EARLY CHURCH HAD NO DOUBTS AT ALL THAT BECAUSE FAITH, THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, IS CONCERNED WITH THE WAYS OF GOD WITH MAN AND, VERY PARTICULARLY, OF THE WAYS OF MEN WITH MEN, YOU CANNOT ESCAPE FROM IT. THIS IS PART AND PARCEL OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL."




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Background: NEXT FRIDAY (JUNE 20) A LARGELY-WHITE ELECTORATE WILL GO TO THE POLLS IN RHODESIA TO VOTE IN THE NATIONAL REFERENDUM TO DECIDE ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS PROPOSED BY MR IAN SMITH'S GOVERNMENT AND TO STATE WHETHER RHODESIA SHOULD BECOME A REPUBLIC OR NOT. BOTH MR SMITH'S RHODESIAN FRONT PARTY AND THE OPPOSITION CENTRE PARTY HAVE, IN THE LAST WEEK, INTENSIFIED THEIR ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN. AMONG THOSE WHO OPPOSE BOTH APARTHEID AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS, IS THE ANGLICAN BISHOP OF MASHONALAND, THE REVEREND PAUL BURROUGH, WHO WAS INTERVIEWED IN SALISBURY ON SUNDAY (JUNE 15).

THE NEW PROPOSED CONSTITUTION, PUBLISHED ON MAY 21ST IN A GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER, INCLUDES PROPOSALS PROVIDING FOR A SEPARATE VOTERS' ROLL FOR AFRICAN AND NON-AFRICANS; A 23-MEMBER MULTI-RACIAL SENATE; AND A HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY -- INITIALLY MADE UP OF 50 WHITE AND 16 AFRICAN MEMBERS. WITH THESE AND OTHER PROVISIONS, IT WOULD CREATE A FORM OF TOTAL POLITICAL SEPARATION BETWEEN THE 4,280,000 AFRICANS AND THE 225,000 EUROPEANS IN RHODESIA.

WHILE THE SMITH GOVERNMENT MAINTAINS THAT THE NEW CONSTITUTION WILL GIVE THE AFRICANS GREATER EQUALITY -- ITS OPPONENTS FEAR THAT IT WILL BRING INTO EFFECT EVEN STRONGER APARTHEID MEASURES.

DURING THIS WEEKEND'S ELECTIONEERING, BOTH CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS WORKED AT FULL STEAM. AT THE GOVERNMENT'S RHODESIAN FRONT PARTY, VOLUNTEERS WERE VISITED BY MR. DE KOCK, THE FRONT'S ORGANISING SECRETARY, AND BY MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND IMMIGRATION VAN DER BYL.

AMONG THOSE WHO ARE PUTTING-IN LONG HOURS TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE REFORMS AT THE CENTRE PARTY HEADQUARTERS WAS PARTY CHAIRMAN SIR RICHARD SULLIVAN.

ANOTHER LONG-TIME CRITIC OF THE SMITH REGIME AND APARTHEID IS THE REVEREND PAUL BURROUGH, BISHOP OF MASHONALAND -- HE WAS INTERVIEWED ON SUNDAY, AT THE HEIGHT OF THE CAMPAIGN: