70 Year Magazine Archive

On the Right

by Wm. F. Buckley Jr.

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New York, June 2—From the citation as read by President Hugh Gloster of Morehouse College, Atlanta, on May 20, 1979 accompanying an honorary doctor of laws degree for Joshua Nkomo:

“Joshua Nkomo, determined defender of the rights of man and leader of black Rhodesians from racial subservience to majority rule. In 1975 you demanded black majority rule ‘now and not tomorrow’ and warned that ‘armed struggle will be inevitable’ if that goal is not attained. Since the Ian Smith regime proved intractable, you and Robert Mugabe organized the Patriotic Front to conduct guerrilla warfare against the government.”

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