Article: CARTER AND THE RHODESIAN PROBLEM(1).

In the British political parlance of the 1960s, "the Rhodesian problem" referred to the difficulty of dealing with the white settler minority in Southern Rhodesia. In 1964, Great Britain granted independence to Malawi and Zambia, former members of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, based upon constitutions providing for black majority rule. However, the third Federation member, Southern Rhodesia, rejected British efforts to bring a peaceful transition to majority rule and self-determination under democratic terms, and in 1965, unilaterally declared independence.

After the issuance of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), British Prime Minister ...

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