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Published: 2013-09
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Ahrn Palley, Andrew Skeen (Rhodesia), Archibald Wilson, Charlene, Princess of Monaco, Clifford Dupont, Denis Walker, Frank Mussell, Frederick Charles Booth, George Lloyd (aviator), George Mitchell (Rhodesia), Gerald B. Clarke, Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, Greg Aplin, Guy Clutton-Brock, Harvey Ward, Heidi Holland, Henry Everard, Ian Smith, Jack Howman, James Graham, 7th Duke of Montrose, John Bredenkamp, John Edmond, John Moore Caldicott, John Wrathall, Ken Flower, Leonard Ray Morgan, Leo Cardwell Ross, Lionel Cripps, Marshall P. Baron, Michael Hartmann (judge), Mike Campbell (farmer), Neall Ellis, Nigel Lamb, P. K. van der Byl, Robert Clarkson Tredgold, Robert Paul (painter), Roy Welensky, Winston Field. Excerpt: Pieter Kenyon Fleming-Voltelyn van der Byl, ID (11 November 1923 - 15 November 1999) was a South African-born Rhodesian politician who served as the country's Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1979 as a member of the Rhodesian Front. A close associate of Prime Minister Ian Smith, van der Byl opposed attempts to compromise with the British authorities and domestic opposition on the issue of majority rule throughout most his time in government. However, in the late 1970s he supported the moves which led to majority rule and internationally recognised independence for Zimbabwe. After a high-flying international education, van der Byl moved to the colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1950 to manage family farms. He went into politics in the early 1960s through his involvement with farming trade bodies, and became a government minister responsible for propaganda. One of the leading agitators for the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, van der Byl was afterwards responsible for introducing press censorship. He was unsuccessful in his attempt to persuade international opinion to recognise Rhodesia as a new...