The Southern Rhodesian Liberal Party was founded and led by Jacob Smit in 1939. It is thought that it was largely since Prime Minister Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins , leader of the United Party (UP, later the United Federal Party) failed to include Smit (who was Minister of Finance) in the exclusive WWII Defence Committee, Smit split from the UP. Notwithstanding its name (the reasons for which are somewhat unclear), the party was, in fact, pronouncedly illiberal. In his A History of Southern Rhodesia, Robert Blake writes that Smit's party: "in accordance with the Rhodesian tradition of adopting the most misleading political nomenclature possible, called themselves ‘Liberals.’ ” It was to become one of the political precursors to the later Rhodesian Front (RF).
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a semi-independent state in southern Africa that existed from 1953 to the end of 1963, comprising the former British protectorates of SouthernRhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland.
The dominant role played by the Southern Rhodesian European settler population within the CAF is well reflected in that played by its first leader, Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, prime minister of the Federation for its first three years, and prior to that, prime minister of SouthernRhodesia for an uninterrupted 23 years.
In 1927, the ratio of white to fl was 38,200 to 922,000 in SouthernRhodesia, 4,000 to 1,000,000 in Northern Rhodesia, and 1,700 to 1,350,000 in Nyasaland.
Ian Douglas Smith, GCLM ID, (born 8 April, 1919) was the Premier of the British Crown Colony of SouthernRhodesia from 13 April, 1964 to 11 November, 1965, and Prime Minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 11 November, 1965 to 1 June, 1979, when Rhodesia was ruled by its white minority.
Smith was born in Selukwe, Rhodesia (known between 1963-1968 as Shurigannina), which is now Shurugwi, Zimbabwe; he was the family's youngest child with two older sisters, Phyllis and Joan; and educated in Gwelo (now Gweru) and at Rhodes University in South Africa.
Kissinger flew to Southern Africa and met with Smith and Vorster in Pretoria.
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