MR IAN SMITH made a dawn broadcast in Rhodesia admitting
that there was no immedi- ate prospect of receiving oil through Beira and announcing the closure of the residual British mission in Salisbury. Rhodesia, however, con- tinued to receive oil overland from South Africa while Britain went on putting pressure on South Africa to desist. Sir Hugh Stevenson, the UK ambassador in Pretoria, paid a brief visit to London and returned with a special message for Dr Verwoerd, as the United Nations Committee on Colonialism continued to disagree about what Britain must do next. The United States was accused of bombing a suburb of Hanoi, but replied that it had only attacked a missile site, President Johnson made a sudden trip to Mexico City and M Couve de Murville, the French Foreign Minister, went to Bonn to discuss the chances of French troops remaining in Germany. The President of Iraq was killed in an air crash to be suc- ceeded by his brother, and President Tito paid an official visit to Rumania.
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