Correspondence, mainly on federation for Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] and Kenya and also on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951, with correspondents including: Ernest Vasey [Minister for Finance and Development, Kenya]; Henry Hopkinson, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs [later 1st Lord Colyton]; Sir Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia [later 1st Lord Malvern] on subjects including the results of a referendum on federation with Nyasaland [later Malawi] (4); [Roland] Roy Welensky on federation and the situation in Southern Rhodesia (7); Michael Blundell, leader of the European Elected Members Organisation, Kenya, on subjects including interference in Kenyan affairs by [Archibald] Fenner Brockway [member of an unofficial fact-finding mission to Kenya], measures against the Mau Mau and federation (6); Leonard Bean; Walter Bell [East African High Commission, Kenya]; Sir Philip Mitchell, Governor of Kenya; Sir Gilbert Rennie, Governor of Northern Rhodesia; Sir Alfred Vincent; Sir Archibald James; Archer Baldwin; Stanley Evans (2); William Coldrick; 9th Lord de la Warr; Sir [Thomas] Ellis Robins, President of the British South Africa Company, writing to de la Warr on JA's visit; Woodrow Wyatt, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, War Office. |