UN General Assembly
1968

174, What we demand now is decisive action to end the rebellion, as Ian Smith is only interested in setting up another police state of terror with the help of the South African police. Smith not only has defied Her Majesty the Queen in connexion with the hangings, as you know — after the Queen’s gracious pardon, that is — but has twice treated the British Prime Minister as his personal valet - and I do not apologize for saying that. We are surprised that he was not arrested and detained in the confines of the Fearless the other day. Now is the time for military force. Now is the time to forget any opening of negotiations. Let us give no more time to Smith to consolidate his racist illegal régime. We have already witnessed the failure of economic sanctions applied against that régime. This, of course, could not work as long as everybody knew that Rhodesia’s economy was strongly supported by South Africa, Portugal and other Powers, through deliberate leakages in the sanctions which the United Nations is not able or perhaps not willing to