A Matter of Weeks Rather Than Months: The Impasse Between Harold Wilson and Ian Smith Sanctions, Aborted Settlements and War 1965-1969Trafford Publishing, 2012 - 772 頁 Founded on 35 years of research into o the post-1945 Anglo-Rhodesian history, this book complements Richard Wood's The Welensky Papers: A History of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: 1953-1963 (1983) and So Far and No Further! Rhodesia's bid for independence during the retreat from empire: 1959-1965 (2005). Of So Far, Michael Hartnack wrote that 'Once in a lifetime comes a book which must force a total shift in the thinking person's perception of an epoch, and of all the prominent characters who featured in it.' A Matter of Weeks Rather than Months recounts the action and reaction to Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of Rhodesia's independence, the second such declaration since the American one of 1776. It examines the dilemmas of both sides. Smith's problem was how to legitimise his rebellion to secure crucial investment capital, markets, trade and more. His antagonist, the British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, was determined not to transfer sovereignty until Rhodesia accepted African majority rule in common with the rest of Africa. Given British feelings for their Rhodesian kith and kin and Rhodesia's landlocked position, Wilson eschewed the use of force. He could only impose sanctions but hoped they would defeat Smith 'in a matter weeks rather than months'. The Rhodesians, however, evaded the sanctions with such success that they forced Wilson to negotiate a settlement. Negotiations were nevertheless doomed because the self-confident Rhodesians would not accept a period of direct British rule while rapid progress to majority rule was made or the imposition of restraints on powers they had possessed since gaining self-government in 1923. In tune with their allies in the African National Congress of South Africa, the Rhodesian or Zimbabwean African nationalists had already adopted the Marxist concept of the 'Armed Struggle' as a means to power. Sponsored by the Communist Bloc, its surrogates and allies, they began a series of armed incursions from their safe haven in Zambia. Although bloodily and easily repulsed, they would learn from their mistakes as the Rhodesian forces would discover in the 1970s. Consequently, this is a tale of sanctions, negotiations and counter-insurgency warfare. |
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Acknowledgements | 1 |
Contents continued Appendix 670 | 4 |
Mandatory Sanctions | 5 |
Chapter | 19 |
The Stick and the Carrot Oil Sanctions and the First Tentative | 32 |
Considering a coup détat The visit of Watson during | 62 |
Constitutional Stalemate and the Battle of Sinoia the First | 78 |
Operation Pagoda I | 85 |
Operations IsotopeI 86 II | 332 |
August October 1967 | 347 |
Operation Isotope II | 353 |
Contact on the Inyantue River | 357 |
Operation Nickel | 358 |
August October 1967 | 367 |
April 1968 | 407 |
Operations Bonfire 8C Breeze | 409 |
Preparations for the Next Round May 1966 | 98 |
There is nobody in Rhodesia who is capable of working out | 125 |
Operation Pagoda II | 129 |
Operation Grampus | 135 |
A Stay of Execution Harold Wilson and the Commonwealth | 142 |
Operation Yodel | 157 |
First Contact with a British Minister Herbert Bowdens | 159 |
Ian Smiths Reply to the British Terms OctoberNovember 1966 | 187 |
Operation Vermin | 208 |
Herbert Bowdens Second Visit and its Product | 210 |
Stalemate on HMS Tiger 24 December 1966 | 223 |
The rejection of the Tiger Proposals 45 December 1966 | 243 |
December 1966 | 254 |
Operations Glamour 8C Pantechnicon | 315 |
Operation Husk | 328 |
Operation Cauldron | 430 |
Operation Cosmic | 446 |
AprilJune 1968 | 447 |
Operations Cauldron 8C Glove | 450 |
Operation Flotilla | 461 |
Operations Excess Griffin 8 Mansion | 476 |
Operation Griffin | 480 |
Operation Mansion | 483 |
Operation Excess | 490 |
The Second Attempt to Settle | 494 |
Operation Gravel | 498 |
OctoberNovember 1968 | 556 |
Operations OysterLurcher | 640 |
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