RHODESIA: A Bizarre Venue

Other diplomatic meetings have been held in railway cars—the signing of the World War I armistice in the Compiegne Forest, for instance, and the 1940 surrender of France, staged at the same spot and in the same car. But never has a meeting been held in a railway car straddling the border between two countries in the middle of a bridge 310 ft. above a churning river, and just downstream from one of the world's mightiest waterfalls.

The bridge in question overlooks the mile-wide Victoria Falls, whose plunge off a black basalt cliff into the Zambezi River creates a...

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