Abstract
Christopher Soames set off for Salisbury with understandable misgivings. Far from being over, the war had developed a new intensity as ZIPRA and ZANLA tried to get the bulk of their forces in Zambia and Mozambique into Rhodesia and the Rhodesians responded with ferocious cross-border raids. In the absence of agreement with the Front, no African country would grant clearance for Soames’ aircraft which, therefore, had to take him to Rhodesia via the Azores and Ascension Island.
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Renwick, R. (1997). A British Governor. In: Unconventional Diplomacy in Southern Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25399-9_8
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