'Freedom and work' in Tanganyika

PEACEFUL ROAD TO SELF-RULE
TANGANYIKA, the home of the first African Cardinal in the history of the Church, starts on self-rule this week with a Catholic Chief Minister. Full independence is expected to follow in about 18 months.
He is Mr. Julius Nyerere, a convert who gave up a teaching post in a Catholic school six years ago to found the party which has led the campaign for self government here, the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU).
There was little opposition to TANU in the general elections on Tuesday. Fifty-eight TANU candidates had already been returned unopposed, and only 13 of the 71 seats in the new Legislative Council were contested. Thus Mr. Nyerere, as party leader. becomes head of the new autonomous government as Chief Minister.
A week before the elections Mr. Nyerere pointed out that there was "not the least chance" of what happened in the Congo happening in Tanganyika "because the circumstances are different". In the Congo M. Lumumba had to form a minority government. "but 1 am not forming a minority government".
Tanganyika not only has greater national unity than the Congo, but race relations here are generally good. This is true in part because there are only 23.000 Europeans and 112,000 Asians in a total population of about nine million people.
A year ago Bishop HolmesSiedle, W.F., of Kigoma said that in all Africa "it is in Tanganyika, perhaps that race relations are best and where future prospects are brightest".
For this situation the bishop credited governors who "long ago understood that Tanganyika is an African country and that Africans should have quite a lot to say in running it".
Earlier this month Mr. Nyerere echoed this statement, saying: "People can compare what is happening in the Congo with what is happening here if they wish, but they are insulting the British, because the British have not left the same sort of bitterness here as the Belgians left in the Congo."