South Africa: Treason Trials, 1948-1964

File

MSS. Afr. s. 1681/200

Held at the Weston Library

Contains:

folder 1 (items 1-5) data on trials including trials for treason, 1948-1961
folder 2 (fols. 1-25) Treason Trials Defence Fund: correspondence and statement by the Bureau on the part played by Mary Benson in South Africa in administering the fund, 1957-1958
folder 3 (fols. 1-24) speech by the Bishop of Johannesburg about the Treason Trials Fund, statements and drafts of statements about the need for co-ordination of effort among those wishing to help Africans, [c. 1959-1962]
folder 4 (fols. 1-39, items 1 and 2) correspondence with Joel Carlson, affidavits produced by him and transcripts of pleas, as well as a typescript of a tape-recording produced by him in London, 1960-1961
folder 5 (items 1-21) Treason Trials Defence Fund press summaries (many missing), 1958-1961
folder 6 (items 1-3) Treason Trials Bulletin, Nos 9, 12 and 13, 1960-1961
folder 7 (fols. 1-23, items 1-6) background material, 1956-1964.