Post by robertboon on Oct 21, 2021 12:15:59 GMT
An article entitled Governments and Big Business make Laughing Stock of Rhodesia Sanctions in the Canadian(!) newspaper the Daily Colonist of 30 August 1967 includes the following (column 1):
There are some considerable exceptions to the list of sanctioned goods: television programs are an example, and next month a Rhodesian television executive is due in London to lay in fresh stocks of TV series.
John Maltas, who from the article was clearly a driving force behind Rhodesian sanction busting was also a director of Rhodesia Television Ltd.(RTL) He had dual Rhodesia/Cyprus nationality and he use to travel round Europe, making illegal deals for the Rhodesians, on his Cypriot passport, the authorities being unable to deport him. He may even be the nameless Rhodesian TV executive due in London in September 1967.
So did the BBC continue to sell programmes to the Rhodesians, including, possibly, Doctor Who, or did they, due to possible British Government pressure refuse to do so?
There are some considerable exceptions to the list of sanctioned goods: television programs are an example, and next month a Rhodesian television executive is due in London to lay in fresh stocks of TV series.
John Maltas, who from the article was clearly a driving force behind Rhodesian sanction busting was also a director of Rhodesia Television Ltd.(RTL) He had dual Rhodesia/Cyprus nationality and he use to travel round Europe, making illegal deals for the Rhodesians, on his Cypriot passport, the authorities being unable to deport him. He may even be the nameless Rhodesian TV executive due in London in September 1967.
So did the BBC continue to sell programmes to the Rhodesians, including, possibly, Doctor Who, or did they, due to possible British Government pressure refuse to do so?