KR ~ Wednesday, September 17, 198600 North Shore News Mailbox What Ss. Africa does is not Commonwealth's business The Commonwealth consists of forty-nine self-governing independent states freely associated under the Queen. All were formerly parts of the British Empire but not all former parts of the Empire are members of the Commonwealth, Sudan, South freland and Burma, for example are not members by choice. The Union of South Africa, on the other hand, was expelled because the prime minister of Canada, John Diefenbaker, held that a state prac- tising apartheid in the 1960s was not respectable enough to be a member. As recently as the 1940s Canada had its own version of apartheid. So had Australia and so have many countries today — if apartheid means discrimination in race, religion, sex, color and creed. When it suited us we changed our ways and our laws. We altered our morals and now we nominally no longer have apartheid in Canada in any form. When it suits them, other states will also nominally terminate discrimination within their borders. What annoyed Mr. Diefenbaker was that it didn’t suit South Africa to terminate apartheid at the same time as it suited us. The fact that Japan and China still have their own forms of discrimination didn’t bother our prime minister. Neither did it trouble him that some countries were not yet ready to abolish slavery, polygamy, capital punishment, abortion ~— or opposition to it ~ or drug traffick- ing. To him the only problem was South Africa’s apartheid. And why was that? Because South Africa was in the Commonwealth! So South Africa was obliged to withdraw, and our Tory prime minister has since gone to his reward up yonder. But now we have another Tory PM on the same bandwagon. Does he not perceive the inconsistency of his position in lining up with several Commonwealth states to-impose sanctions against a country that is not a member of the Commonwealth? What South Africa does ts none of our Continonwealth business any more, any more than is slavery in Saudi Arabia or bull-fighting in Spain. Moreover, a cardinal principle of relationships between Com- monwealth countries is non-interference in the internal affairs of the in- dependent members. If Britain were to try to stop polygamy, say, in India or female cir- cumcision, say, in Kenya or Zambia there would be an outcry of ‘*Colo- nialisin’’ and the country would consider cancelling Commonwealth membership. It probably wouldn’t cancel it because of the advantages of membership for these young nations. It is therefore ironic that these countries should use the Commonwealth Games to blackmail Britain. If Mrs. Thatcher were to bow to this blackmail once, the Commonwealth would cease to be a useful instru- ment in the world. 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