Northern Cameroons, 1960-1981

File

MS. 5947/2

Held in our offsite storage facility

Comprising:

File 1: terms of appointment and claims, 1960.
File 2: appointment and general correspondence, Mar 1960-Feb 1963, including one letter (Jun 1961) from Sir Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Northern Nigeria, with accounts of Wyn-Harris and the plebiscite written by his colleagues, Derek and Anita Moutain, in 1981. Some folios are closed.
File 6: payment of inducement bonus to government staff seconded to the Northern Cameroons, Oct 1960-May 1961.
File 5: correspondence concerning law and order in the Northern Cameroons, Dec 1960-May 1961.
File 4: correspondence with legal advisor concerning the Northern Cameroons, including the plebiscite and the transfer of the administration of Northern Cameroons from the United Kingdom to Nigeria, Oct 1960-May 1961.
File 3: reports and telegrams between the Foreign Office and the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York on UN deliberations on the Cameroons and the plebiscite, 1-28 Apr 1961.

Dates

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MS. 5947/2

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