§ Mr. TurtonI beg to ask leave to present a Petition signed by 96,304 members of the Anglo-Rhodesian Society residing in the majority of constituencies represented in this honourable House. The Petition recites Rhodesia's record of peaceful history and claims her right to be recognised as an independent sovereign State.
The Petition prays, first, that the call of the United Nations for increased sanctions against Rhodesia will not be implemented; secondly, that existing sanctions be removed; and, thirdly, that negotiations be commenced immediately with the Rhodesian Government with a view to resuming diplomatic relations with her as an independent State and so to bring to an end the unhappy divisions between the two countries.
The Petition ends:
And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.