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When the Pearce Commission was given the impossible task of deciding if the settlement terms worked out between the British and Rhodesian governments were “acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole,” Bishop John Robinson, who wrote that trendy work of popular theology Honest to God, offered to bet anybody £50 (as a donation to Oxfam, naturally) that the Commission would declare the terms acceptable.

“Everybody,” he says, “fully expected the Commission to do a whitewash operation. The government would not have sent them if it had believed otherwise.”

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When the Pearce Commission was given the impossible task of deciding if the settlement terms worked out between the British and Rhodesian governments were “acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole,” Bishop John Robinson, who wrote that trendy work of popular theology Honest to God, offered to bet anybody £50 (as a donation to Oxfam, naturally) that the Commission would declare the terms acceptable.

“Everybody,” he says, “fully expected the Commission to do a whitewash operation. The government would not have sent them if it had believed otherwise.”