FREEDOM DAY

Continued from page 1 land. The major credit for this must go to Julius Nyerere.
Nor must we forget the three great Pastorals jointly issued by the Tanganyika Hierarchy over the past decade.
The country badly needs foreign capital to improve its communications and for irrigation systems. Because of its political stability. there is reason to hope that this help will he forthcoming.
Though the United Kingdom has stepped up the national grant to Tanganyika. it seems quite wrong that we have failed to give special grants to aid her in the desperate plight created by the famine. Mr. Nyerere's demands were dignified, reasonable and legitimate. Coming on the eve of his country's independence. they should surely have met with some response.
My last tribute must go to the influence of the excellent paper run by Fr. Kabaya, called Kioneozi, a high quality paper, Catholic in spirit, but taking a proper interest in national affairs; to the Tanganyika Mission Press at Tabora; and to the groups of Catholic young men now working to bring the Church's social teaching to hear on the country's needs.
There is a tendency in some government quarters to restrict the freedom of the trade unions. This must be counteracted by the principle of a real and free co-operation between state and trade union movement. And technical education must be stepped up to give proper expression to the adolescents who tend to stay in the towns after a partial education.
Unless properly handled. these could become typical half-intellectual malcontents and a source of subversion. Tanganyika must he given as much help as possiblethat she may the more effectively help herself.
Schools
TANGANYIKA'S population is about 9,500,000, including 120,000 Asians and 23,000 Whites. There are 2,000.000 Moslems and 500.000 Protestants. A majority are pagans.
There are 1,500,000 Catholics; 1,098 priests of whom 245 are Africans; 339 Brothers, and 1,209 Sisters. The school teaches more than 200,000 pupils in 3,000 schools.
The schools receive government subsidies, but Mr. Nyerere has said that Catholic and Protestant schools may receive less aid than Moslem schools. The Christians are on the whole better educated than the Moslems. Therefore. he says. the Moslem schools need more aid to help them catch up.