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Article: The Great Betrayal.(Review)
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- African Business
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- June 1, 1999
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By Ian Smith [pounds]9.99 Blake ISBN 1-85782-202-1
The memoirs of Rhodesia's former Prime Minister, who led his nation into rebellion with the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence, makes controversial reading on a number of levels. The title of the book says much, and it would be easy to dismiss this autobiography as simply a reactionary tirade of self-justification, a railing against all those who would oppose his intransigence towards majority black rule, and a bitter indictment against the international community who, he would have us believe, abandoned his illegal regime just when it was on the verge of victory over African Nationalist forces. Of ...