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4 2 with BRITAIN ‘the Commons | yesterday. : + Labour: : M.P.s ‘loudly cheered the ' Foreign Secretary's 4h. announcement!" t many Tories* were highly critical. RESPONSIBLE Mr. Brown took per- sonal responsibility for the decision to withdraw British Forces and grant independence by the 30th even though negotiations Aden’s " National Liberation Front in Geneva are not expected to start until next week, Lord Shaok!eton, Minis- ter without Portfolio, will lead the British delegation. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Shadow Foreign Secretary, ran into Labour protesis when he told Mr." Brown that if the road to Aden’s independence had been rough, jt was the Govern- ment’s responsibility, he pledged the Opposition’s co-operation over ‘a quick and successful evacuation “TI take it.” said Sir Alec, “that the naming of the date, which I am bound to say I would not have done myself, was on the High Commissioner's mendation ?" . Mr. Brown answered! “ Responsibility for naming « Negotiations “cannot ’ By MAURICE TROWBRIDGE will complete the\withdrawal from .. Aden by November 30 with or without the existence of a Governmen bility can be handed over, can be quite sure I did\ no. take that responsibility until I had taken full to account the advice I got.v completed before’ indepen- dence there is nothing to + stop them continuing as between independent countries.” He told a questioner: “1 see a considerable chance of ® stabie Government taking over when we leave.” Mr. Peter Tapsell (Tory, Horncastle) said it had been the declared policy of suc- cessive Governmen’ British territories not merely independence, but independence under a rule of law and a democratically elected Government, “BLACK” “Don't you realise that Particularly for those of us who believe in the modern Commonwealth that the handling of this situation by the Government is a very black day in our British history 2?” he declared. Mr, Brown: “I believe when the dust has died down that not only the country here, but ry MPs will realise that, given the situa- ton we started from, we have done a tremendous fb in getting it sorted out this way.” t to Whom responsi. Mr. Ceorge Brown told “the date ls mine, but, you Rhodesia: } there could j-tighter sanctior an By. WILFRID SENDALL iE Government now faces the + grinding war"of ieconomle’ attrition. as “stage eine. Rhodes! an Wisputet Probability This ‘is conclusion from Commonwéalth Secretary \ Thomson's report yesterday on his Salisbur; Mr. Thomson made no attempt to disguise the fact ‘| that prospects of a settle- ment. had gone backwards rather, than forwards. In the Commons he described his report as “sombre” and said: “The differences between our position and Mr. Smith's proved even greater than digcussions Mr. Thomsen was sorry to report that tha kind of changes Mr. Smith now\wished to make in the Tiger constitutional plan “were of a that would fundamentally ~ affect their nature.” 7 > CHANGES At “a Press conference later Mr. Thomson said that he had toid Mr. Smith that the con- stitutional changes _ proposed could nat be reconciled with the British Government's principles. The alternative, he sald, was “a period of intensification ‘of sanctions” to dispel the view in Rhodesia that sanctions were a three-year wonder of ‘which Britath and the world would get weary. “1 do not betier tions have failed.” “¥ do not belicy Smith thinks they He added: “kk scrabble an exister is a vast way from which Rhodesia + U.D.1." In the Commons - Paget (Lab. tried unsuccessfully emergency debate failure of the Gox open negotiations obstruction of tr Bhodesia.” Sir Gerald Nab South Worcestershi: in just over two x has lost’ about & worth ef trade: t Africa, ‘Pay up, coi (OSCOW, — Tuesda today raised to 20 "economic penalties from factories whos iperformance is poor lanuary their yr to clients—not to th