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Despite the British boycott of tobacco, Rhodesians were still planting it in hopes that by the time their crops mature next April they will be able to find a market. Despite stringent trade and currency restrictions designed to undercut the Rhodesian pound, the new nation's hard currency reserves actually increased by $2,224,000 last week. The settlers might grumble at Smith's austerity taxes, which sent the price of Scotch whisky up to $5.46 a bottle, but the majority of them still supported him -and resented what they considered British treachery at trying to force them...
...Fred M. Leventhal is mistaken in his understanding of the SDS petition on the Rhodesian crisis: so far the SDS as an organization has NO policy on the crisis, except in its general opposition to undemocratic, oppressive governments. Neither the general membership nor the executive committee has made any decision, and until that time the SDS will continue to have no specific stand...
Whereas in the course of human affairs, history has shown that it may become necessary for a people to resolve the political affiliations which have connected them with another people and to assume amongst other nations the separate and equal status to which they are entitled . . . -Rhodesian Proclamation of Independence...
...last step before independence: he had forced British Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs to sign over his powers to the Cabinet in case he could "no longer function." Wilson decided that the only hope left was to phone Smith directly. He booked the call for 5 a.m., argued with the Rhodesian Prime Minister for 16 minutes, at one point politely told him he was being influenced by "thugs." It was all to no avail. "I was speaking to a confused and unhappy man," Wilson told the House of Commons. "He has been under intolerable pressures from some of his unreasoning extremists...
...Many military experts believe Britain would have to airlift in at least three full brigades to subdue Rhodesia's small (12,000 regulars, 46,000 reserves) but well-trained army and police. But the loyalties of Rhodesia's armed forces are in doubt. A good percentage of Rhodesian enlisted men were recruited in Britain, and more than half of the nation's officers rose through the ranks of the British army. Whether they would obey orders actually to open fire against the Queen's men was a question that Smith, for one, hoped would never have...