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putting forward are the policies which would ensure that all the people will stay happily together. But I am afraid that you are either on Smith’s side or you are irresponsible and want chaos and confusion.” I was head of a big mission school for years, and it came to the point where I saw blacks take over completely and do the job better than I had ever done it. In such a case one learns humility. The Chairman: I want once again to thank Mr. Todd for his very inform m mative presentation to the Committee. We have had in this Committee the opportunity to listen to representatives of the liberation movements; in fact, the year before last we also had the opportunity to listen to the leaders of the liberation movements. I think it also was valuable to have the opportunity to listen to Mr. Todd, a leader in his own right, and a person who has played and is playing an active role in developments in Zimbabwe. I think his contribution to our Committee is important, not just for the purpose of the Committee’s understanding of the issues involved, but also in the light of his background and position, in a world where sometimes issues tend to be confused and where there is a lot of ignorance about what is going on in Zimbabwe. And I am particularly glad, as Ambassador Rikhi Jaipal rightly pointed out, that he clearly put the problem of the freedom fighters in its proper perspective by saying that you cannot really differentiate between the freedom fighters and the people: they are one and the same thing. That is a point which has to be made, and which, I think, needs to be emphasized, particularly in countries and places such as the location of the United Nations, where the tendency is always to over-simplify things and not really to understand the issues in their proper perspective. So in the name of the members of the Committee and in my own name, I want to thank him very much for appearing before us, and I am sure that his information and contribution will be invaluable to the Committee’s considera m ation of the question of Southern Rhodesia, soon to be Zimbabwe. International Center of Indianapolis Luncheon on Basic Issues Unfortunately, very few recordings exist of Todd’s speeches; however, the Disciples of Christ Historical Society found a recording of this speech delivered before the International Center, Indianapolis, India m ana, on June 13, 1977. I have transcribed the text and it expresses INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF INDIANAPOLIS 305 Casey.Rhetoric.indd 319 1/9/07 11:12:53 AM 306 PROPHETIC SPEECHES the rough form of an extemporaneous address, bearing out Todd’s comment to me that many of his speeches were extempore and that he made no attempt to systematically preserve them. This speech was delivered one week after the 1977 UN speech, and it reveals many of the people he met and events in which he participated in both the United States and Britain during this crisis period in the waning years of the Smith regime. Dr. Robert Nelson, the chair of the International Center and executive secretary of the department of Africa in the division of overseas ministries of the American Disciples of Christ, had known Todd since the 1950s when Todd was prime minister. Nels m son had kept the Rhodesian situation before the American Disciples.32 Nelson made this speaking opportunity available.33 Chairman Dr. Nelson, ladies and gentlemen. I am told that I can speak until five past one and I know that some of you have to go back to your businesses and then I understand I’m going to be able to answer questions from those who have questions to put. Now my wife and I went out from New Zealand in 1934 from the Christian Church—which, of course, are the Churches of Christ there—to take over a little mission station in Rhodesia. We were fortunate in this way that we didn’t go to a place where there were other missionaries although there had been earlier, and a great deal of work had been done. We found ourselves two quite young—twenty-six and twentythree —young people amongst twenty thousand blacks and we established our own behavior patterns. We hadn’t been there very long when one day an old, old, old man in just a little leather apron and...

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