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The prices will be lower than they are now.  You
can not sell a chic-ken for less than 60 cents.  Bananas will
be 15 cents for 10.  Workers will be contracted to the plantation at 15/- each month.
It is the administrator himself who openly says that
the forced work and the exploitation of Mozambicans v/ill continue, more intensely than ever before.
Mozambicans, the only way to act against this is to
unite, all of us, with FRELIMO.
THEN OUR INDEPENDENCE WILL BE NEAR.
SUMMARY OF THE SPEECH GIVEN
BY THE FRELIMO REPRESENTATIVE
AT THE MEDITERRANEAN CONGRESS
20th - 24th June, 1964
a).  Portugal does not recognise the right of self-determination as defined by the Charter of the United Nations.
b) Portugal does not believe in, nor does she respect the
democratic ideals which the Western Nations say are the basis
of their defence pact which is the North Alantic Treaty Organisation.
c) Portugal enjoys the moral support and material aid of a
number of Western powers which seem to be interested in exploring and exploiting the natural and human resources of
Africa.
d) Portugal is using NATO in order to consolidate her own
interests and maintain her privileged economic position at
the expense of the African peoples.
e) Portugal is implicating the Roman Catholic Church in an
outmoded colonial and imperialist system, thus violating one
of the moral commitments of the Catholic Church.
f) Portugal is prepared to sacrifice our people, and some
of her own^ simply in order to defend an archaic system of
government,
and still enjoys the actual material support of the Western
powers, members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Even after all the public denunciation of Portuguese colonial
policy by various members of the United Nations, Portugal still
believes that there is hope for some allies to come out squarely
in support of her position.  The difficulties which occurred in
East Africa recently have sparked some hopes in Portuguese official circles of a drastic swing in the position of such NATO