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Stage Set for Racial Crisis In White-Ruled Black Rhodesia
The nations to the north, whose rush to independence has been the major historical movement of the past several years, would quickly recognize a black African government in exile. They would try to upset the white government by every means, including force.
THEY WOULD TRY to make the other notions of the world—and especially the major powers—do the same thing.
This time it is in Rhodesia, which got its name from Cecil Rhodes who sent the white pioneers in ox wagons there hardly a generation ago.
Neighboring Northern Rhodesia became independent last week under a majority black African government and changed its name to Zambia.
The Communists, Chinese and Russian as well, could go much farther along that path than could the major nations of the west, including the United States. By doing so, the Communists could only win influence and friends in Africa.
SOUTHERN RHODESIA dropped the geographical prefix to become simply Rhodesia.
The stage is being set for another racial crisis in Africa.
That could provoke an international crisis of major proportions in Africa.
The ruling minority of whites in Rhodesia hope to forestall a black African government in their country by gaining formal independence from Britain under their present constitution—even if they have to declare independence in defiance of London.
BECAUSE they fear losing these and the privileges of their rule, the whites are willing to go to great lengths to preserve white control. They would prefer to negotiate independence, but, in exasperation, might be "forced" to take it. The commanding general of the Rhodesian army, Maj. Gen. J. Anderson, who was known to oppose any such unilateral attempt, has been pointedly retired.
Like the Conservative Party government before it, the Labor government has refused to recognize the "indaba" of African tribal chiefs called by the Southern Rhodesia government to approve independence on behalf of Africans.
It is hard to tell where things would end. Even if force from outside were avoided, Rhodesia's newly independent neighbours, Zambia and Malawi, would certainly suffer and change under the impact of an economic boycott which would hurt them as much or more than Rhodesia.
The new British Labor government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson would at least like to postpone the crisis.
Outnumbered by more than 13 to 1, the white Rhodesians are pioneers and sons of pioneers in the wrong century. Since the ox wagons stopped on the site of the Capital, Salisbury, 74 years ago, modern towns have risen from the plain and farms have come from the bush.
But Britain will soon be faced by
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THE RHODESIA leaders obviously believe they could maintain their independence with the cooperation of Portugal, which rules neighboring territories, and South Africa—even in the face of expulsion from the Commonwealth and world sanctions.
The British could hardly use force against the white settlers. But neither can they grant independence on the basis of a constitution which would keep the white minority in power for another generation, if not indefinitely.
To the south of Rhodesia lies South Africa, the white bastion of the continent. Even if reluctantly, South Africa would have to support Smith in independence, because it knows that black African nationalists consider Rhodesia as the last step on a road which leads to South Africa itself.
No one has found a way out of the impasse. Wilson has invited Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith to London for another try.
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