from Gertrude Elias Editorial:note: the following was published in a leaflot by the South Arabia
Committee, 3, Shavors Place, London,S.W, In answer to the British Government's abrogation of the constitution of Aden, the Aden Liberation Movement has called on all citizens to refuse to work under the British High Commissioner, Colonial Secretary Anthony Greenwood, two years @go still a brave Sponsor of the Movement for Colonial Freedom, has to learn that the easy days of the Anglo-Arabian Empire are on the wane, Britain has en in power here for over a hundred years; now everybody from Chiéf Minister Mackawee down to the last Street sweeper. feels/tes been long enough, a
Mr. Greenwood tried in vain last August to find stooges- willing to sell out, but Abdullah al Asnag= the leader of the Aden TUC and the Peopléts Socialist Party~ insisted that nothing less than” the implementation of the U.N. resolution for self-determination and free elections undex U.N. Supervision was geod enough. The resolution stipulated in particular that the British military base -in Aden be evacuated. The Colonial office, true to tradition, asserts that the National Liberation Movement is Stirred up by the U.A.R., and they want to make the world believe that " were it not for Pres.Nasser and Cairo, the Arabs in Aden would &ladly reconcile . Sena themselves to all the Squalor, to their drainless slums in the "Crater! (Adents "Native" quarter )without resentmente.s.that they would watch the tanker fleets of the big oil companies which pass through Aden docks year in year out, carrying liquid gold to the West,,,' No, Mr, Greenwood, the resentment of the Arabs is not due to the "Voice of Cairo" nor to the hidden hand of Moscow or Peking, Blindness due to malnutrition and poverty is certainly one of the Scourges of British rule, but the evidence .of the onni-present Anglo-American oil trusts cannot be overlooked, even by those of poor vision,