On the evening of the day in 1965 when UDI was declared, Adèle and I were having a meal in an Indian restaraunt on The Turl in Oxford. (Was it the Taj Mahal?) A friend, also then at Nuffield, seeing us from a few tables over called out with some reference to my being a white Rhodesian, and an exchange of the loudly public sort of which undergraduates are fond ended in our agreeing on the slogan 'Crush Smith'.
Ian Smith, who has died, hoped white rule in Rhodesia would be of long duration:
"I don't believe in black majority rule over Rhodesia," Mr Smith said when making his unilateral declaration of independence from Britain. "Not in 1,000 years."His tenure didn't last much longer, after he said that, than Hitler's 1000-year Reich.
