Fresh from overseeing the settlement of Zimbabwe's independence, Lord Soames flew off to Mozambique late last month. There, in the capital of Maputo, he indicated that Britain would help President Samora Machel rebuild the war-shattered rail line from the Rhodesian border to the Mozambican port of Beira. Someone asked Machel: How did aid from capitalist Britain square with his Marxist principles? "Our Marxist principles stand," he replied, hoisting a glass of French champagne. "Don't you like drinking champagne in a Marxist country?"
No one was more relieved to see an end to the hostilities than Machel, whose country paid dearly for its...
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