D.M. Cole's appreciation of the political situation in the Federation (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi) sent to R.L. Prain (Selection Trust/American Metal), with rebuttal by F. Taylor Ostrander, political adviser to H.K. Hochschild (Head of American Metal), and notes by Hochschild concerning political trends and political friends, and the policy and image of the Selection Trust group; affairs of the Central African Examiner.