Letter From Rhodesia

TO CRUSH A MOUSE

Salisbury. Latest round to Mr. Wilson, hands down. Mr. Ian Smith’s government successfully branded as a gang of ruthless thugs stringing up Africans in defiance of Queen. UN and Pope; at the same time, by an adroit piece of by-play, any possibility that credit might go to Tory leader Alec Douglas-Home for reopening a way towards the settlement of the Rhodesian dispute effectively squelched. Back not to square one but to square zero. Sanctions will be intensified, the heat turned on as far as it will go; and the worst sufferers will be Rhodesia’s 4.5 million Africans.

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TO CRUSH A MOUSE

Salisbury. Latest round to Mr. Wilson, hands down. Mr. Ian Smith’s government successfully branded as a gang of ruthless thugs stringing up Africans in defiance of Queen. UN and Pope; at the same time, by an adroit piece of by-play, any possibility that credit might go to Tory leader Alec Douglas-Home for reopening a way towards the settlement of the Rhodesian dispute effectively squelched. Back not to square one but to square zero. Sanctions will be intensified, the heat turned on as far as it will go; and the worst sufferers will be Rhodesia’s 4.5 million Africans.