Those less willing to trust the rebels demand direct British rule by an Executive Council made up of British colonial civil servants. They assert that independence for Rhodesia is unthinkable ...

The failure of British policy toward Rhodesia was equally apparent in London, where the House of Commons held its stormiest session since the Suez crisis of ten years ago.

"There will be no African rule in my lifetime," said Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith. "The white man is the master of Rhodesia, has built it and in tends to keep it." In ...

The Rhodesian army is equipped with armored cars and automatic weapons and backed by an air force with French helicopters and British jets. Even more tragic, Rhodesia holds a strangle-hold control ...

Smith became premier of the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia in April 1964. On Nov. 11, 1965, he issued a declaration of independence.

Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for 1,000 years, died Tuesday in South Africa. He was 88 ...

The New Yorker, February 19, 1966 P. 36. The writer comments on her memory of the racial situation in Rhodesia when she lived in Salisbury when her husband was a Cultural Affairs Officer for the U ...

Rhodesia, is so called, the former name of Zimbabwe named after an English Imperialist by the name of Cecil John Rhodes. Mr Rhodes arrived in Capetown South Africa with an assortment of theories ...

British control of the region extended over successive decades, and area became known as Rhodesia after 1895, with Southern Rhodesia denoting Zimbabwe and Northern Rhodesia covering Zambia.