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...Airlift. From the outset, Wilson found that Smith could not be budged from his bedrock position: Rhodesian independence, based on the 1961 constitution and sanctified by a "sacred treaty." At their first meeting, Wilson handed Smith a letter from...
Blustering, threatening and reasoning, probing for weak spots and grasping at straws, the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and Rhodesia played out their desperate bluffing game last week. At the end of the game, surely not far away, would come Rhodesian independence. The immediate question...
...tragic, Rhodesia holds a strangle-hold control on newly-independent Zambia to the north. Because of its copper mines, Zambia last year had a favorable trade balance of $280 million and is well on its way to becoming independent Africa's wealthiest nation. But it is totally dependent on Rhodesian railroads for an outlet to the sea, on power from Rhodesia's mighty Kariba Dam, and on coal from the Rhodesian mines at Wankie. In the face of economic sanctions, in which Zambia would definitely take part, the white Rhodesians would promptly cut off transport, power and coal and plunge...
...Tobacco Trade Association and the Chamber of Commerce warned that U.D.I, would bring "catastrophe," and a delegation of business and farm leaders went to Smith to argue against it. In prominent newspaper ads calling on all who opposed U.D.I, to send in their names to be counted, the Rhodesian Constitutional Association observed acidly that "no evidence has been given to the electorate that failure to get independence at once will result in an immediate black racialist government...
Indeed, everything seemed calculated last week to upstage the Tories' new leader in his debut as party chief. As the Conservatives gathered at Brighton for their annual conference, the headlines were dominated by the Rhodesian crisis. And when Wilson flew up to Balmoral to see the Queen, the blood froze in Tory veins: with a mere two-vote majority and the opinion polls rapidly swinging his way, Wilson might well be asking permission to dissolve Parliament and call an election. Not so, or at least not yet. But the reaction in Brighton all too clearly revealed the Tories...