A decade of crisis: Ten years of Rhodesian front rule (1963-1972)
The analysis presented is an attempt to assess the critical areas of the Rhodesian story of the decade in adequate depth. The matters dealt with are: a) political and racial philosophies and theories which underscore attitudes to every facet of national activity and which the trial of the ten years has found wanting; b) the constitution to set the pattern and tune of the Rhodesia to be, remaining unresolved after repeated probes and stormy controversy; c) emergence of the African with attendant dilemmas for himself and the European posing a nightmare of transitional problems - human and material; and d) the balance between racial conflict and co-operation and of relative power, which hovers uncertainly