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..........In Confidence
Mr Green удобы This is a draft reply to the
Second half
With regard to the resolution's condemnation of the
Government's "failure to take action to prevent the illegal
execution of British Subjects by the Rhodesian regime",
although I deeply deplore such acts, we must face the fact
that lacking any official representation in Salisbury, our
power to influence the illegal regime is very limited. On the
advice of her Ministers, Her Majesty The Queen exercised the
Royal Prerogative of Mercy in favour of three Africans in 1968,
but this action did not prevent their execution.
Rhodesia was declared a "republic" and it is even more unlikely
that the regime would now feel themselves bound by the Royal
of the resolutionths Prerogative of Mercy. Ms Little wrote about
Seffor
Fletcher
6/2/76 Rhodesia Deft
In 1970
I believe that the surest way to bring an end to these
executions, or to the other tragedies of the war in Rhodesia,
is to pursue a peaceful negotiated settlement, on the basis of
the Anglo/US proposals.
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