Word: rhodesian
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Last week the rest of the dream drained away. Attempting a political comeback in Salisbury, Welensky was whipped in a by-election at the hands of Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-supremacist Rhodesian Front Party. Not that "Royboy" was all that sympathetic to the blacks. He simply wanted to prevent Smith from breaking openly with Britain. As he waited on a balcony to concede defeat, a crowd of Smith supporters beat him to it. The tune was Goodnight, Irene, but the words had a jeering lilt: "Goodbye, Sir Roy, Goodbye...
...once in a university, this academic delay can be both tiresome and disheartening. Even if he admits that the delay is necessary, which some of the students do not, the refugee feels that once again he has been placed in a position of insecurity and doubt. One Southern Rhodesian wrote several times that he was "just about to enter regular classes" but has not yet done so. A Mozambican said he felt those students who were sent directly to high school for a definite period of time were "better off," even though they faced the problem of being considerably older...
What made Smith so sure he could get his mandate for continued white supremacy? If he had any ideas on the subject, he wasn't letting on in London. But back home in Salisbury, the government coincidentally announced a 10% raise in the financial qualification of Southern Rhodesian voters. Henceforth, Africans will have to prove at least an annual income of $739 before they qualify to vote-this in a country where the average African income is $319 a year. Did Smith have a trick up his sleeve? He indicated that to prove his point he might...
This week Smith visits Portugal, which feels a bond with Southern Rhodesia because it is fighting black nationalism in neighboring Mozambique. From Portuguese Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Smith reportedly hopes to get a promise that if he breaks away from Britain, Portugal will immediately recognize Southern Rhodesian independence and stand by to give economic and military aid, if needed. Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda of Northern Rhodesia claims to have a copy of a secret agreement along these lines already drawn up between Portugal and Southern Rhodesia...
...London for the promised talks. The result is almost certain to be a deadlock, and Smith could then return home strengthened in his agruments for a bolt. The final steps apparently are planned. A group of Tory M.P.s last week told the British government about a Southern Rhodesian plan, which, in addition to the agreement with Portugal, supposedly calls for 1) dictatorial rule by Smith as part of a triumvirate; 2) arrest and expulsion of the British Governor and military commander; 3) trade boycott of Northern Rhodesia; 4) seizure of all means of communication. To make all this more palatable...