Wood writes that Wilson, Bottomley and their Labour contemporaries were "distracted by their own political agendas", and did not understand the extent of Rhodesia's considerable disillusionment with Britain by this time.
伍德寫道，威爾遜、巴譚里及同時代的工黨正「分心於自身的政治議程」，完全不知道羅德西亞那時對英國大失所望的程度。