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...confident," Commonwealth Relations Secretary Arthur Bottomley told Parliament in London last week, "that this will mark the beginning of a new and happy era in Anglo-Maldivian relations." But even that did not seem very likely. Rather than join the worldwide stampede of newly emerging nations, the Maldives seem intent on submerging. They are not going to join the Commonwealth. They have not applied for membership in the United Nations. Nor, apparently, will they seek diplomatic relations with any nation anywhere. The closest thing the Maldivians have to a foreign service, in fact, is a Male fish trader...
...Bottomley soon found out, compromise was all but impossible. Prime Minister Ian Smith's harsh tactics have kept the blacks divided-and resentful. At airports and on the streets, Bottomley was cheered by crowds of Africans waving banners and homemade signs with such messages as THE MINORITY STINKS. Demonstrations, however, were quickly broken...
...fleeting glimpse of black nationalist spokesmen who oppose white rule. He was allowed three hours with restricted Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo in eastern Rhodesia's steaming Hippo Valley, two hours with another delegation in the seclusion of the ladies' powder room at a Rhodesian airbase. Scarcely had Bottomley landed in Salisbury than he was whisked off to nearby Domboshawa for an indaba (powwow) with 600 government-paid chiefs and headmen. One after another, the chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have little following in the cities, stood up to attack British insistence on dealing with...
Almost everywhere that Bottomley was taken, the harangues continued. He tangled with 100 labor leaders (mostly white) in Salisbury's Unity House, was assailed by 50 farmers (all white) at an experimental farm south of Zambezi Escarpment. At an elephant barbecue on the shores of Lake Kariba, while maidens of the primitive Batonka tribe danced bare-breasted to the throb of buffalo-hide drums, Batonka Chief Binga attacked the African nationalists, adding with solemn African symbolism that "you cannot change a brown cow into a white...
...Bottomley came away with no easy answers. Shortly before he flew back to London last week to report to Wilson, he told reporters that he had been trying "to find a way for the British and Rhodesian governments, and the African nationalists, to arrive at a solution whereby there could be a peaceful transition to majority rule." Added he: "I do not say how or when...