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...probably can count on enough votes to limit Security Council action, and can always resort to the veto to block total sanctions. But a veto would only put London in serious trouble with its own former African colonies, many of whom have been threatening for months to abandon the Commonwealth over Rhodesia. Even limited sanctions would pose a crisis for the U.N. If they are imposed, South Africa might be forced to resign from the world body...
Both had good reason to try to settle their differences. Wilson, under Commonwealth pressure, had promised to ask the U.N. for mandatory sanctions against Rhodesia unless the rebel regime came to terms. Such sanctions would hurt the Smith regime, perhaps even to the point of causing a white exodus from Rhodesia. But they could also bring Britain into direct confrontation with South Africa, its fourth largest customer, which announced that it would support Rhodesia to the hilt...
...that, is no little England. Fully a seventh of the island is sinking as a result of swift underground currents, and it will take an estimated $40 million to correct the situation. The island's 250,000 population makes it the third most densely populated area in the Commonwealth, after Hong Kong and Malta. The density is easing only where it can least be afforded: the cream of Bajan youth is emigrating to the better opportunities in the U.S., Canada or Britain. Though the economy is viable, its heavy dependence on sugar, which provides 90% of the nation...
Though he would prefer to settle the dispute within the Commonwealth, Wilson has vowed to take it to the U.N. if no accord is reached by Nov. 30. If that happens, Smith has said that "the matter would be taken out of our hands," meaning he would have no choice but to declare Rhodesia a republic and sever ties with the Commonwealth...
Died. Sir "Evelyn Wrench, 84, a wellborn journalist from Northern Ireland and longtime chairman of The Spectator, who in 1918, in order "to draw together in the bond of comradeship the English-speaking people of the world," founded the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, to facilitate cultural exchanges, give scholarships, hold conferences, in 1920 founded a U.S. counterpart, saw the groups grow to more than 100,000 members; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England...