Includes some 1920s correspondence between Leo Amery [while Secretary of State for the Colonies] and others, mainly Jan Smuts, on subjects including Imperial Preference, relations with Japan, increasing the white element in East Africa, the development of Iraq and Palestine, Imperial Conferences, the Locarno Pact, the success of the RAF visit to South Africa in 1926, the South African flag, the idea of Smuts becoming High Commissioner for Palestine, South African politics and Amery's visit to South Africa during his Empire Tour. Other correspondents include; Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on a proposed Anglo-Boer monument; Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick on the Sundays River Settlement [South Africa]; 1st Lord Athlone [Governor-General of South Africa] on appointing a minister to represent South Africa and the internal political situation (1928).