Africa, the Commonwealth and decolonisation

Title

Africa, the Commonwealth and decolonisation

Shelfmark

MS. Callaghan 213

Summary

Comprises:

Folder labelled "185: I: 47-60" containing correspondence regarding Africa, including with Tom Mboya, Honor Balfour, Alan Burns and Robert A. Mackay, and papers relating to the Delegation of the Empire Parliamentary Association visit to the Gold Coast, including press cuttings, itinerary, diary entries, notes and transcripts of speeches. Also includes civil service list for the Ministry of Transport and the Admiralty, press cutting and correspondence regarding Cyprus, draft of a speech on the Commonwealth, and review of Royal Academy exhibition Treasures of Ancient Nigeria. 1946-1959, 1982

Papers regarding official visits by Callaghan to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma [Myanmar] and India and to Cairo, Kenya and Northern Rhodesia, articles and extracts from Hansard regarding the arrest of Subandrio, the Central African Federation [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland] and independence movements in Africa, and report of the 1959 Commonwealth Relations Conference. 1957-1961, 1966

Correspondence regarding the sale of arms to Indonesia, and papers regarding official visits by Callaghan to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma [Myanmar] and India, including correspondence, itineraries, press cuttings, photographs, notes and reports. 1959

Extracts from Hansard and transcripts of speeches by Callaghan on de-colonisation and foreign policy in the Far East, including Callaghan's maiden speech on China and Japan. Also includes pamphlet Our Country, Our Responsibility by Duncan Innes, pamphlet containing speeches given by Seretse Khama at the Third Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Nations, pamphlet containing the fifth E.G. Malherbe Academic Freedom Lecture given by Sir Robert Birley, and transcript of and address given by [Seretse Khama] at the Dag Hammarskjöld Centre. 1945-1958, 1970

Correspondence with and on behalf of George Allen and Unwin Ltd regarding a book of essays by African leaders, to be edited by Callaghan. 1960-1962

Date

1945-1970, 1982

1945-1970

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (5 folders)