[ an article recently published on
Public Opinion, a Jamaican weekly, its editor, John Maxwell, pointed out that: _“What is happening now is that since Independence the conviction has been growing in Jamaican minds that our job is to design a new world complete, to break out of the mental enslavement and to destroy the obsolete ideas and the stone walls of prejudice which impede us. But it is not reflected in the behaviour or words of those who claim the right to decide other people’s lives. So we find the people a mass of revolutionaries, many of them not knowing what they want to revolutionise or how they want to do it or why, only knowing that they want a change. It was perhaps the same feeling in 1962, but what the people did then has produced no change, but rather a deterioration in the relations between the various sectors of the society. People are more afraid of each other now, than at any other
time than I can remember. No
more murders were committed last
year than the year before, but many
people seem convinced that they are
liable at any moment to be butchered
in their beds. The atmosphere is
hysterical and dangerous.”
“It is dangerous because it is the