UN General Assembly
1965

There is every reason to believe that the accommodating attitude of the United Kingdom may encourage Ian Smith's racist government to proclaim Southern Rhodesia's independence unilaterally, once it is assured, as it virtually is, of the support of the Portuguese and South African Governments. While demonstrating a censurable readiness to accommodate Southern Rhodesia's white settlers, an attitude fraught with dangers for all of Africa, the United Kingdom Government, even as it proclaims its desire for decolonization, does not hesitate, after cruelly repressing the liberation movement in Aden, to suspend the Constitution of that Territory, thereby creating an explosive situation which may well set ablaze the entire South Arabian region.