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163. Memorandum of Conversation

esents a difficult threshold, even under the rubric of a Commonwealth force. For these reasons, constructing a peacekeeping force may be easier under UN auspices. Our efforts to now indicated that Canada was uninterested in a Commonwealth force, and Nigeria showed a lack of enthusiasm compared to what it had previously exhibited at the Commonwealth conference. Nigeria did show somewhat more enthusiasm for the idea of a UN force. The real problem was the Nigerian distrust, and the distrust of Africans generally, of Smith . We must not think that everything (sic) that whites in Rhodesia may do i…