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Subjects include: PC's decision as First Lord of the Admiralty not to take black servicemen to South African ports; the labour force at the Devonport dockyard; nuclear defence; the Portland spy ring; the Vassall spy case.

Also includes a letter of sympathy to Iona, Lady Carrington, hoping that PC would not resign [? over the Portland and Vassall cases], and a later general interview with PC from 1974.

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Papers, news cuttings, copies of articles, correspondence, and photographs and negatives, collected by John Aitchison documenting the impact of the Blackspot Removal Campaign in Natal.

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Including: Stevens' observations on colonial policy and administration during his tour of Luanda, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Salisbury, Khartoum, Cairo and Tripoli; press cuttings regarding peace settlement in Congo and Angola; Stevens' view of apartheid; and a Foreign Office letter regarding the negative reaction to Stevens' potential appointment as Ambassador to South Africa.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on Questions raised by AFB in the House of Lords relating to the political situation in Lesotho. Correspondents include: Roger Wilson, Professor of Education, University of Bristol (2); Alexander Lyon [Opposition Spokesman on African Affairs] and 12th Lord Lothian, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office [earlier Peter Kerr], on the detention of Ntsu Mokhehle, the leader of the Opposition in Lesotho.Also includes AFB's evidence to...

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Comprising a typescript of Nicol's opening statement.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: warnings on Churchill's actions, 1947; Britain's post-war economic problems; British policy on Palestine; the threat from the Soviet Union; the future of India; the South African General Elections, 1948 and 1953; joint state and private enterprise projects in South Africa; the policies of the South African Nationalist Government; apartheid; Seretse Khama's marriage [to Ruth Williams]; the Korean War; tribute to Jan Smuts; the legacy of Empire; the state of the South African...