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Correspondence P-T, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 5/7

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, thanking AFB for sending him an account of his recent visit to Moscow [Soviet Union]; [James] Harold Wilson, Prime Minister, thanking AFB for sending him an account of his visit to Moscow; [Anthony] Tony Benn, Postmaster General, on a complaint about a shared telephone line; Anthony Lester, enclosing a memorandum on a proposed centre to reduce racial discrimination and advance equal opportunities for racial minorities; Frank Soskice, Home Secretary [later Lord Stow Hill] on the Race Relations Bill; George Thomson, Minister of State, Foreign Office, on the deposition of Sheikh Saqr of Sharjah; Eirene White, Parliamentary Secretary, Colonial Office, on the alleged kidnapping of Mozambique refugees from Swaziland by Portuguese agents.

Also includes: minutes of the Movement for Colonial Freedom's South Africa committee, August 1965, on the situation of refugees in Swaziland and progress of the Anti-Apartheid Movement; memorandum from the Pan-Africanist Congress on South African refugees in Basutoland [later Lesotho], Bechuanaland [later Botswana] and Swaziland.

Dates

  • Creation: 1965

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The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

1 file(s)

Repository Details

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