Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...16th Commonwealth Conference broke up last week in London. What broke it up, as usual, was the problem of how to make Rhodesia a British colony again...
Admittedly, it was a problem that put the leaders of the Commonwealth's 23 nations in a curious position, for to most of them anti-colonialism is still a fighting cause. But Rhodesia is different...
...Most Commonwealth leaders had come to London hoping to force Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Wilson to send troops to invade Rhodesia - or at the very least call for a full-scale eco nomic and diplomatic blockade (such as the U.N. unsuccessfully tried against Franco's Spain after World...
Wilson managed to prevent a walkout, largely because most African Commonwealth members had nothing to gain-and too many economic benefits to lose-by leaving. He offered no new tactics against Rhodesia, clung instead to the hope that his economic boycott would eventually bring Smith down...
...economic blockade by extending the sanctions to South Africa, whose gold is a prop for the sagging British pound. At the same time, Wilson wants desperately to win in Rhodesia. He is convinced, as are many members of his government, that unless Britain can prove its good intentions, the Commonwealth will eventually disintegrate entirely...