“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 huge African colony ...

To an outsider, the 250,000 whites of Rhodesia would seem to have little need to declare independence from Britain. They seem happy enough as they are. The climate is marvelous, the soil fertile, the ...