Material relating to The Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) Government Information Department in the pre-Federal era will be found at MSS. Welensky Papers 51/4; speeches and related material can be found at MSS. Welensky Papers 433/1-456/6. The previous section, relating to security matters, included files concerning various publications of the Malawi Congress Party and details of incidents whose wider publicity (in London, etc.) was desirable from the point of view of the Federal Government. The agency for such publicity was Voice and Vision Ltd., chaired by Sydney Wynne. Wynne was also involved in the revitalisation of the Federal information services within the Federation (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi) and at Rhodesia House. Voice and Vision organised tours of the Federation (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi) by United Kingdom parliamentarians - see series 4 of this catalogue. Wynne was entrusted with other tasks by Welensky, e.g. as an intermediary to the opposition in Ghana (Dr Busia) - see MSS. Welensky Papers 231/14. The campaign for federation had involved the employment of public relations advisers - the United Central Africa Association (UCAA) was a campaigning organisation. David Cole, sometime editor of The Northern News, had turned to public relations consultancy work for the Selection Trust mining group and others (see MSS. Welensky Papers 599/8-601/1), as well as advising the Federal Government and the (United) Federal Party on such matters.

Material concerning broadcasting seen from the point of view of Welensky's ministerial responsibility for it (as Minister of Posts, 1954-1956), or from the security angle, subversive radio propaganda from abroad, will be found in the relevant sections. Publicity material and publications of the Federal Government (or of Voice and Vision on its behalf) by way of advertising, propaganda, or polemic are included.

This series contains transcripts of broadcasts by Welensky, broadcasts of press conferences and interviews given by him, and broadcasts about the Federation. See also MSS. Welensky Papers 277/3 and 283/7.

Certain private circulation newsletters will be found listed in the 'personal' series under the names of their authors, e.g. Bartlett, de Courcy, and King-Hall. Others will be found in the files covering Welensky's patronage of charities, clubs, and societies, or in his files of 'thanks' for items received. See also MSS. Welensky Papers 346/4. Press cuttings are frequently to be found on the various subject files, or in appended sub-files to such files. Earlier cuttings will be found in series 1, e.g. those of the Central African Council at MSS. Welensky Papers 96/7-103/2. Other material relating to visits and visitors for which the press cuttings are contained in this section will be found at MSS. Welensky Papers 390/1-409/4. For cartoons, see also MSS. Welensky Papers 584/1.