White !
p. 12 · Read in the full issue
In Black And White !
Shorthand outlines, like photo graphs, do not lie.
This is the opinion of PlM’s assistant editor, Robert Langdon, who has been writing high speed shorthand since he left school 20-odd years ago, and who has reported more sessions of Australia’s Federal and State Parliaments, courts, etc. than he cares to think about.
Langdon, who reported Sir Derek Jakeway’s Sydney Press conference for “The Fiji Times,” says Sir Derek DID say that the Indians “do not want self government”, and not something about independence as Sir Derek now claims.
“Sir Derek used the word ‘self-government’ three times in a matter of minutes,” Langdon says, “and I have them all in my notebook. There is a world of difference between the outlines for ‘self-government ’ and ‘in dependence’, and, of course, they do not sound anything like each other.
“However, I can believe that Sir Derek inadvertently made a slip of the tongue or meant to convey ‘independence’. He was asked questions on many difficult subjects, and, generally speaking, I greatly admired the way he handled them.”