An “Anatomy of Rhodesia’ really would be a ‘best-seller’. One important question it might attempt to answer is that of the location and division of political and economic power – and/or decide if they are one and the same? Upon the answers to these questions depends the retention or otherwise of our very precious Rhodesian identity and a future in or out of the Republic of South Africa. That is what it really is all about and as someone said the other day in the Rhodesia Herald – “in about 1973 a sadder and wiser Rhodesia will go to the referendum polls with no option, for economic and security reasons, but to reverse the 1923 decision”.

John Lentell

1st July, 1969