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Everywhere the Government has a problem it is adopting the DULLESTY intervention, And itis a Labour Government WILL sIC sponsible.
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Address of recipient present! "Gunboat diplomacy' is a rather disparaging term.. Those who use it like to pretend that dispatching British troops all over the globe was just a quaint idiosyncracy of the Palmerston era. But gunboat diplomacy is alive and well and living in Bermuda...or Ireland, Belize, or the Green Goddesses on the streets troops to the Dutch, the Germansor any other European GOVCrIMeEt will & lerrorist' problem, British troops who Mogadishu attack.
And now, after a test run in the Central American colony of Belize in the summer.
Bermuda, From the press you would think that we were back in the days of Palmerston — the Royal Kepimeat of Fusiliers pops off to a colony to sort out a lew Socialis Challenge offers you a 16 page colour: special on the Russian Revolution. The design, by complements a hitherto unpublished This text contams contemporary accounts of Bolsheviks in 1917, price for this splendid souvenir marking the 60th anniversary of the revolution is only 50p plus 10p Sociatist Chailenge SIUS TUD pap. plus 30p pap.
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But the responsibility for the Burmuda events lies susren with the British Geverriment. The execution ot two blacks Tacklyn and Burrows -Friday was the firse since 1943. Dozens of whites on similar charges have got relatively mild treatment.
The difference in this case is that they were iwo black men in • colony where the police, judiciary and government are led the exclusively white.
Fearing reaction from the overwhelmingly black population, heGovernment, beadedby millionaire David Gibbons, and Governor Sir botham (late of Washington) Deferredto London.
Go ahead, said David Owen, Labour's debomuir und humane Foreign they reonly blacks — sadit you have uny bother we'lsend in the gunboats.
The blacks of Bermuda have treated this racism with the contempi it deserves, The standard bearers of world socialism responded with predictable speed in dispatching their The trained Fusiliers, replete with NO SUCKS. rubber bullets and sten guns.
invaling Brits will behelping our with the fire service the next fleet of RAF Hercules will be mercifully taking a few Green Goddesses has yet to be confirmed! We can expect more murder before the Fusiliers go back to the moce farniliar tasks of "keeping the peace! in Belfast Peter RamsSecretury, after all sort of callous CHELSS and Deiry. balons. tear other things the Further Most southern Africa, This expeditor - the socond to the Caribbean in six months - MISCHICOME DE SEEI outings for British dangerous is the DOssbity of am Intervention In Already a British Field Marshal has been appointed to Zunbabwe: Itisunlikely that the refrom dermoua [unfortunatel, buttwo squaddies genting themselves rather metor British will go in on their own — more probablytacy would form part of a multinational force but the readiness with which Owen is prepared to bolster white rule in the Caribbean does not bode well for the black masses of Zimbabare.
When the troops went into the Bogside in 1969 Iley welcomed with cups of tea.
When they arrived in Bermuda
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ail they got were firebombs and missiles. The world has learnt a Jot about the British army in the last ten sear the British labour movement should learn the same lessons and demand; BRITISH TROOPS OUT OF BERMUDA!
*Caribbean Labour Solidarity has organised a picket of the Foreige Office at 6.00pm Wednesday December.
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