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...Shamuyarira is a graduate student of economics at Harvard and former president of the Rhodesian Student Union in America. His article is partially in refutation of an article written for the CRIMSON by Clive Kileff '66, a white Rhodesian, on December...
Eons ago two long rivers cut parallel valleys down the sides of the southern Rhodesian plateau, leaving a broad ridge bisecting the country. Men began to call the broad ridge the High Veld, for it was 4000 to 5000 feet above sea level. On the High Veld was, and is, life, in a rich, tropical savanna graced with tall grass and scattered umbrella-shaped trees. Africans once proudly owned and farmed it, but a century ago they were gradually pushed down its steep sides by the white settlers...
First he prohibited the import of Rhodesian chrome. Then came a ban on cash-and-carry trade, which supplemented an earlier crackdown on credit deals. Finally, having presumably run out of trade barriers, Wilson decided to test his thesis that most of the Rhodesian civil service is loyal to the Crown, and will prove it if given the chance...
...behest, Queen Elizabeth suddenly commuted the death sentence of two Rhodesian blacks convicted of set ting houses afire and awaiting execution in a Salisbury prison. The hope was that the voice of the Queen would stir the fire of revolt in Smith's prison authorities, but that hope seemed faint at best. Shrugging off an official warning that executing the two "loyal subjects of the Queen" would be the same thing as murder, Smith made the obvious reply. Wilson, he charged, was trying to "embroil Her Majesty in politics," something that Prime Ministers do at a risk to themselves...
...show of firmness came as the Gallup poll reported, for the first time since he took over, a slump in Labor's standing, halving the margin of their lead over the Conservatives to 4½%. While Wilson has been preoccupied with foreign affairs, mainly the Rhodesian crisis, the electorate has been increasingly nagged at home: increases in bread prices, wage disputes, inadequate gas supplies during winter cold spells, power failures. This week Parliament reconvenes, and the minor grievances at home will provide the Tories with fresh ammunition. This week, too, voters in Hull go to the polls...