HC Deb 23 November 1967 vol 754 c410W
Mr. Elystan Morgan

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs whom Her Majesty's Government recognises as the present leaders of majority African opinion in Rhodesia for the purposes of finding an acceptable settlement.

Mr. George Thomson

No precise answer can be given to this Question, in particular because of the division of African nationalist opinion into two main parties and because both have been banned and their leaders detained. The position remains that no settlement would be acceptable to Her Majesty's Government that was not acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole.