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IJH.fc'. SHRtDATH RUMPHAL ; LCKETARY GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH MA?<:L:>OROUGH MOUSE LONDON SlvtY LONDON1. 31/!?/1977. 736. FROM A PERSONAL AND CONFIDENT THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER COMMA THE AL LETTER ADDRESSED TO ME 3Y IGHT HON JAMES CALLAGHAN COMMA DATED 22ND MAY 1977 THE CONTENTS WHICH I DO NOT WISH TO REVEAL AT THS EEE AT THIS MOMENT COMMA IT HAS NOW BECOME ABANDANTLY CLEAR THAT IT IS NOT THE V/ISH OF THE GOVERNMENT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN THAT LEA- DERS WHO SPEAK OUT FRANKLY ON MATTERS AFFECTING THE FUTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH COMMA ESPECIALLY NOW WHEN ALMOST ALL COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES ARE INDE- PENDENT AND SOVEREIGN STATES COMMA SHOULD GO TO LONDON TO ATTEND THE MEETING OF THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH STOP THIS ATTITUDE CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THAT ALTHOUGH BRITAIN HAS LONG CEASED TO BE AN EMPIRE COMMA OF WHICH SHE WAS THE MASTER AND THE COLONIES THE SLAVES COMMA SHE ISSTILL CLINGING TO DAY-LIGHT DREAMS IN v/HICH SHE PRETENDS TO ARROGATE TO HERSELF THE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE AN INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN STATE LIKE UGANDA FROM ATTENDING THE COI-.'MOH '.,'EALTH MEETING OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT S TOP IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THIS HAS BEEN DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT IS UGA- NDAS INTENTION AT THE FORTH-COMING COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE TO POINT OUT THE TY/O THOUSAND MISTAKES MADE BY BRITAIN DURING HER COLONIAL HUL STOP I WISH TO MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN BRITAIN WIELDED THE POWERS AND AUTHORITY OF AN IMPERIAL MASTER OVER THE COMMONWEALTH STOP IT IS ONLY THOSE TRUE NATIONALIST LEADERS LIKE MYSELF WHO REFUSE ff TO -*E MICROPHONES OF GREAT BRITAIN OR ANY OTHER IMPERIALIST POv.'ER AND TO SACCUM3 TO WEIR NEO-COLONIALIST AND IMPERIALISTIC ORDERS THAT TALL THE VICTIMS OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENTS MANIPULATION OF THE COMMO N-vEALTH STOP BY TELLING A MEMBER STATE OF AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION WHO SHOULD REPRESENT IT AT MEETINGS OF THAT ORGANISATION COMMA THE 3R'IT|- tH GOVERNMENT IS NOT ONLY INTERFERRING IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THS EEE OF THE STATE BUT ALSO CREATING A BAD AND DANGEROUS PRECEDENT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTHSTOP J