Edited sentence: He still believes that UDI and the Bush War were both morally and tactically defensible.In his autobiography (written in 2001), Smith uses the term "clean cut" about 40 times and "straighforward" about 20 times to describe individual Rhodesian whites.Life revolved around the cricket team, the country club, the whites only school, the RAF and the company of other gentleman farmers.Smith and his fellow white settler politicians stubbornly resisted any meaningful move to black majority rule throughout the 60s and early 70s.Smith never escaped from or saw beyond this.Smith saw this as "a betrayal" at the time, and has never shifted from this view.Smith was a man of some personal integrity, but a poor judge of events.The words 'treacherous', 'devious', 'weak' and 'manipulative' are regularly used to describe Smith's contemporaries in various British, American and South African administrations.When majority rule was eventually forced on Rhodesia from outside it came in the form of an abrupt capitulation to insurgent backed, black political parties.While his personal courage and principles cannot be questioned, Smith was very much a product of the confined society into which he was born