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However, South Africa has the means and may have the will to keep white Rhodesia out of the abyss. It could stabilize Rhodesia's pound and might tide Rhodesian farmers and industrialists over to better times. If worse came to worse, South African troops could quell disorders in Rhodesia...
...Rhodesia's Africans, UDI transformed this bleak prospect into a promising crisis. As a consequence of Smith's declaration, international sanctions will now shake Rhodesia's economy. Export markets will shrink; Rhodesian currency will be devalued; new investment will cease. Stagnation will threaten the good white life of swimming pools, big cars, and servants...
...problem lay in the Royal Commission. Smith insisted its only job was to determine whether or not the Rhodesian people wanted independence on the basis of their present constitution, which effectively blocks the way to majority rule by the colony's 4,000,000 b'acks. Wilson told Parliament, however, that the British wanted to empower the commission to draw up what would amount to a new constitution and then present it for the approval of both the blacks and Rhodesia's minority of 220,000 whites. Moreover, said Wilson, Britain would expect to have a veto...
...imports, supposedly to halt a buying panic that was rapidly depleting Rhodesia's hard-currency reserves, but perhaps to suggest that big events-such as a unilateral declaration of independence-lay ahead. Then, after a furious 24 hours in which he presided over a caucus of his Rhodesian Front Party and held three long Cabinet meetings, came an even more ominous gesture: the declaration of a nationwide state of emergency...
Washington observer. "But outside these it's pretty much every man for himself." Last week the Afro-Asians cemented themselves once more in the Assembly, by a vote of 82-9 urged Harold Wilson to use force to prevent unilateral Rhodesian independence. But for the most part, the old flogging horse of colonialism is no longer all that exciting-if only because colonialism is nearly dead...