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- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) abstract "Wing Commander William John Harper (born 22 July 1916) was a politician in Rhodesia during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and one of the signatories of that country's Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1965. Born in India during the British Raj, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and emigrated to Rhodesia in 1949. He entered politics with the Dominion Party in 1958, became a Cabinet minister in the Rhodesian Front government in 1962, and over the next six years became noted as one of the party's most right-wing members, among other things calling for Rhodesia to adopt apartheid. An ambitious politician, The Spectator called him a "single-minded upholder of white supremacy". He was one of the front-runners to replace Prime Minister Winston Field in 1964, and thereafter occasionally threatened Ian Smith's premiership until a sudden fall from grace in 1968.Harper came from a long line of Anglo-Indian merchants and was deeply angered by Britain's granting of independence to India in 1947; he retained the opinion for years afterwards that British rule in the subcontinent should never have ended. He took a similar line on his adopted homeland of Rhodesia, reportedly claiming that it, South Africa and the neighbouring Portuguese territories would "be under white rule forever". According to himself and British observers, he and his fellow right-wingers in the Rhodesian Front wielded great influence over Smith's political decision-making during the first few years of his premiership. In particular, Harper was instrumental in the Rhodesian Cabinet's rejection of the terms for Anglo-Rhodesian reconciliation set out by Smith and the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson aboard HMS Tiger in 1966.Harper resigned from the Rhodesian Front in July 1968, soon after Smith dismissed him from the Cabinet, reportedly because Harper had had an extramarital affair with a British agent. He subsequently became a vocal critic of the Prime Minister, greeting each step Smith made towards settlement with black nationalists during the Bush War with public indignation and opprobrium. After six years outside politics, Harper set up the United Conservative Party to oppose Smith in the 1974 election, but failed to win a seat. By the time majority rule began in Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, following the Internal Settlement of the previous year, Harper had left for South Africa.".
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- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) birthName "William John Harper".
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- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) country United_Kingdom.
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- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) party Rhodesian_Front.
- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) serviceStartYear "1937".
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- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) party "*Dominion Party *Rhodesian Front *United Conservative Party".
- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) placeOfBirth "Calcutta, India".
- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) placeOfDeath "Unknown; possibly still alive".
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- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) serviceyears "1937".
- William_Harper_(Rhodesian_politician) shortDescription "Rhodesian politician of Indian birth, Royal Air Force pilot in World War II".
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