Rhodesian elections pose dilemma for new UK Government

Title

Rhodesian elections pose dilemma for new UK Government

Genre

News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:02:58

Description

Peter Allen reports on the dilemmas facing the newly elected UK Conservative Government over the issue of the recent first one-person-one-vote elections in Rhodesia and recognition of the newly formed Zimbabwe Rhodesia. With Commons speeches from: Lord Carrington (Peter Carington), Foreign Secretary; former Prime Minister James Callaghan; Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Contributors

James Callaghan; Margaret Thatcher; Peter Allen; Peter Carington

Keywords

Elections; Politics; Foreign affairs; UK; Robert Mugabe; Great Britain; Political systems; Zimbabwe; Rhodesia; Diplomacy; Foreign policy; Abel Muzorewa; Diplomats

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