Shares a comprehensive history of the adoption of the new republican constitution by the Rhodesian electorate in 1969, which was intended to end the fruitless four-year-long negotiations with the British to secure recognition of the unilateral declaration of independence by Ian Smith on 11 November 1965. Given the evasion by significant nations of the trade sanctions imposed by the United Nations, the gamble was that this de facto ( in effect, whether by right or not) recognition would become de jure (by right). Formal ...
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Shares a comprehensive history of the adoption of the new republican constitution by the Rhodesian electorate in 1969, which was intended to end the fruitless four-year-long negotiations with the British to secure recognition of the unilateral declaration of independence by Ian Smith on 11 November 1965. Given the evasion by significant nations of the trade sanctions imposed by the United Nations, the gamble was that this de facto ( in effect, whether by right or not) recognition would become de jure (by right). Formal recognition, needless to say, was unlikely because the framers of the 1969 constitution rejected the established aim of progress to majority rule through a qualified franchise. Instead they offered the Africans only the goal of parity of racial representation, despite the whites amounting to four per cent of the population.
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Very Good. Unused. A few dirty marks and minor shelf wear on cover. Also a light crease on outer edge of a few pages. Content is fine. 576 p. 24 bw photos, 12 maps.