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 Author Page - XAN SMILEY
Recent Foreign Affairs articles: One document found. displaying 1 to 1.Zimbabwe, Southern Africa and the Rise of Robert Mugabe Xan Smiley Summer 1980 Summary: On April 18, a British Tory government, by repute the most conservative since Hitler’s war, handed over the last substantial British colony, Southern Rhodesia, to a professed Marxist, Robert Mugabe, with the Prince of Wales officiating at the ceremony. When the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, witnessed the all-party signature to the terms decided at Lancaster House, she can hardly have wished for such an outcome, and yet—with only a few ultraconservative backbenchers demurring—the final decolonization process was nevertheless hailed on both sides of the House as a triumph for the British premier whom the Russians call “the Iron Lady.” read 500-word preview
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