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Ian Smith

RTV Salisbury, 1965

Ian Smith, Premier of Rhodesia in the RTV studio, Salisbury, during the negotiations with Britain in 1965. Pictures on the wall show one of the two most incompetent politicians Britain has suffered in the past 100 years, Harold Wilson, Prime Minister, who if not an actual Soviet agent certainly did as much damage to Britain as if he were. He was accompanied in the negotiations by George Brown, Foreign Secretary, the habitual drunkard, who was never sober long enough to understand what was happening. Sadly all Ian Smith's predictions for the future of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) came true, massacres of political opposition, corruption and eventually a starving oppressed population in a land that exported food widely prior to black rule.

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exzim08-Aug-2007 01:03
True enough Ray, the picture is of someone else, the comment about Brown is sadly only too true
Ray :)08-Aug-2007 00:08
Fascinating shot, but I don't see George Brown on the studio wall. I don't really recognise the guy depicted above the interviewer's head.
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