Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed they were. Smith quickly dismissed Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs as the Queen's representative, took over the role himself. His government slapped a whole new series of controls on the newly free nation. Imports, exports and foreign travel were rigidly restricted. No foreign exchange could be bought or sold. The government empowered itself to call all white males of 55 or under into the territorial reserve...
...Rhodesia's armed forces are in doubt. A good percentage of Rhodesian enlisted men were recruited in Britain, and more than half of the nation's officers rose through the ranks of the British army. Whether they would obey orders actually to open fire against the Queen's men was a question that Smith, for one, hoped would never have to be answered. But an answer of sorts did come last week: three new recruits from Britain deserted Smith's national police, crossed into Mozambique, and were shipped back home as political exiles...
Nevertheless, for the benefit of his 25-odd Laborite left-wingers who were deeply shocked by steel's omission, Wilson in the debate following the Queen's speech insisted that steel was not dead but merely sleeping until the parliamentary calendar was less crowded. Tory Leader Ted Heath was not impressed: "It looks like the biggest conversion since Bessemer invented his converter," he jeered, "a squalid act of political expediency by a prime minister who puts political powers before his principles and beliefs." Heath's biting attack, as he taunted Wilson with every promise he had ever...
...resplendently gowned and crowned Queen Elizabeth last week opened the second Parliament of Harold Wilson's Labor government with a cool, clear reading of the "gracious speech" that traditionally limns the government's legislative hopes for a new session. The speech, prepared by Wilson, was a seven-minute catalogue of proposed measures from health to housing but was mainly notable for what it left out: any mention of the nationalization of Britain's steel industry...
Further, the painful conflict of loyalties between Smith and the Queen may well deplete Rhodesia's civil service and army. The rigors of seige will surely weaken the government, making it prone to rash and violent repression. In such a situation weakness and repression, the African nationalists would have a chance at power...