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...period that Wilson estimated would last about ten years. A Royal Commission composed of Rhodesians would draft the necessary amendments, which would be submitted to "Rhodesians as a whole" for approval. In the meantime, censorship would be lifted, political prisoners freed and "normal" political activity permitted. The Rhodesian Parliament, whose hard-line white-supremacist majority might try to block the new constitution, would be dissolved and all legislative powers handed over to British Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs, pending new parliamentary elections within four months. Smith himself would continue as interim Prime Minister, but half of a new "broad-based" Cabinet...
...cannot readily get anywhere else. That would cut off Britain's considerable trade with South Africa, most notably including gold, which is one of the main props for the British pound. Last week sterling dropped of a cent in a wave of panic selling. Whatever happens, Wilson told Parliament, the U.N. sanctions "must not be allowed to develop into a confrontation, whether economic or military, involving the whole of southern Africa...
...which the King pulls away is an indication of the importance a man carries at court. (The method is, at any rate, simpler than many signals of favor and disfavor given at Communist courts or even in democratic presidential mansions.) Last year Morocco's King Hassan dissolved Parliament and has been running the country singlehanded ever since. Critics mutter about his highhandedness as well as his high living, which includes ten palaces, plus fleets of airplanes and automobiles-including several curtained buses for ladies of the harem. But even his critics agree that he is worshiped by his people...
...ruinous for the weakened British economy (see WORLD BUSINESS). It would cut off most of London's gold supply, probably throw a million workers out of jobs and, in the opinion of many economists, force Britain finally to devalue the pound. Even so, Wilson promised Parliament before he left that he would not give in on the essential British demands: that Smith's white supremacist government return to British rule and prepare the way for eventual government by Rhodesia's black majority...
...first significant break in the impasse and it gave Wilson just enough hope to ask Smith to meet him secretly in Gibraltar. "I would not have contemplated a visit today unless I had reason enough to think we are within hailing distance of a solution," Wilson told Parliament, but he warned: "There is still a considerable gap to bridge." At week's end, the Tiger docked and the two Prime Ministers left for their capitals to announce the results of their unusual parley...