African Affairs 50:34 (1951)
© The Royal African Society
Correction
A thorough-going protest has been made to the Uganda references in April (pp. 101–2) but on inquiry they boil down to an inadequate summary of the Kingdon report, which is acknowledged with regret. In the July number, the same correspondent points out that it is not the Police that has been expanded but the Police Service Unit; while the special restriction on assembly is limited to certain gazetted areas, at present 4 gombololas in Kyadondo County. Another mistake, pointed out by H. B. Thomas, is a reference on p. 283 to 5000 square miles being alienated, instead of 500. I have also been asked to say that the Rev. Michael Scott's passport has not been cancelled; the reference here (p. 200) was based on a report of Dr. DQnges statement on the 27th April: "The question arose as to how the Government could prevent the abuse of a cancelled passport as in the case of the Rev. Michael Scott, who, when asked to hand in his passport, slipped over the border and took a plane from Rhodesia". For his part, Mr. E. B. Kirkman has complained of a reference to a transit welfare centre for miners in the Northern Gold Coast (p. 189). Although this was based on a statement by the Chairman of a Mining Company, the opportunity is gladly taken of imputing no Macchiavellian intentions to the men who planned and built the centre.