Contents: U.S. Mission Remains in Salisbury - Why? • The British Pullout • The U.S. Reaction - Nixon Backtracking • The Nixon Constituency - The Reason for Staying • The Chrome Argument • The Shift in U.S. Policy towards Southern Africa • Congressional Considerations • Action Now • The report asks people to call for the immediate removal of the U.S. Mission and the continuation of all economic sanctions against Rhodesia. The report says that in June Britain severed diplomatic relations with the break-away government of Rhodesia; it was assumed by both the British and some State Department personnel that the United States would follow Britain's lead-a natural expectation given...
Contents: U.S. Mission Remains in Salisbury - Why? • The British Pullout • The U.S. Reaction - Nixon Backtracking • The Nixon Constituency - The Reason for Staying • The Chrome Argument • The Shift in U.S. Policy towards Southern Africa • Congressional Considerations • Action Now • The report asks people to call for the immediate removal of the U.S. Mission and the continuation of all economic sanctions against Rhodesia. The report says that in June Britain severed diplomatic relations with the break-away government of Rhodesia; it was assumed by both the British and some State Department personnel that the United States would follow Britain's lead-a natural expectation given the imitative pattern of American policy towards Rhodesia in the past; but today the United States still maintains a six-man Consulate in Salisbury. The report says the new U.S. policy of de facto recognition of the Ian Smith regime appears to be the result of various pressures to which President Nixon and others are responsive. The report mentions Prime Minister Ian Smith, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, Sir Humphrey Gibbs, the Rhodesian Front, a new apartheid constitution, the diplomatic process, the Tiger and Fearless Talks, the African majority, the Department of State, the U.S. Consular Mission, Ambassador Yost, President Nixon, Friends of Rhodesia, the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (U.D.I., UDI), the Soviet Union, ferro-chrome, W. Paul O'Neill, U.K. Foreign Minister Michael Stewart, Secretary of State Rogers, the Cranston Resolution, the Senate, Hugh Scott, Michael J. Mansfield, Jacob Javits, and Union Carbide.
