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...expect it to last more than 30 minutes," Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith growled on the eve of his meeting with black Rhodesian leaders. In fact the meeting, held in a white railway car perched on a bridge 310 ft. above the Zambezi River and overlooking thundering Victoria Falls, was spread over 14 hours. While it came to nothing, there was one consolation for Smith's foes. Mused Bishop Abel Muzorewa, head of the African National Council that claims to speak for Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks: "It was the longest 30 minutes of Mr. Smith...
...left for a lunch break, Smith told reporters: "All the problems are on the other side." Later he groused: "I believed I was talking to normal people, but these chaps are a little unnormal at the moment." Shortly before midnight a glowering John Vorster stormed out of the railway car and left for home. He was soon followed by Kenneth Kaunda. As the meeting adjourned at midnight, Smith seemed positively elated by the prospect of its failure...
That is much different from asking when was the best time to have been among the rich, to have had plenty of servants, private railway cars and the seashore to oneself. It was better to have been richer earlier, when taxes were much lower, before there were so many other claimants to the best of everything. But when were the times best for most people...
Other diplomatic meetings have been held in railway cars-the signing of the World War I armistice in the Compiegne Forest, for instance, and the 1940 surrender of France, staged at the same spot and in the same car. But never has a meeting been held in a railway car straddling the border between two countries in the middle of a bridge 310 ft. above a churning river, and just downstream from one of the world's mightiest waterfalls...
...GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR...