Engagements and Invitations: Visits, Visitors, and Tours: Special Visitors, 1957-1962

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MSS. Welensky Papers 388

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The material in the following section indicates the nature and pace of life of a government minister (and the vast amount of organisation required to keep the show on the road), as well as throwing light on Rhodesian (Zambian and Zimbabwean) society and its activities in the 1950s and early 1960s. Invitations and tours provide anecdotal evidence of the rate of economic development in Central Africa in those years. Visitors and visits tie in with political, constitutional, and military/security affairs and developments. Social engagements tie in with party politics.

Includes visits to Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) until 1953 and to the Federation (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi) thereafter.

Dates

Creation: 1957-1962

Extent

8 folders

Language of Materials

English

Shelfmark

MSS. Welensky Papers 388

Additional Description

Related Materials

For invitations and 'Tours' (engagements outside Salisbury (Harare) and environs), see MSS. Welensky Papers 410/1-420/6. For organised tours for visiting journalists and United Kingdom MPs, see also MSS. Welensky Papers 194/5, 195/11-196/1, 274/2, 275/7, 525/9, 662/5, and 674/8. For visiting military personages, see also MSS. Welensky Papers 232/5-233/5, 234/6, and 235/3-10. For visits by United Kingdom ministers, see MSS. Welensky Papers 198/5-199/7, 595/4, 624/10, and 642/4, and press cuttings. For all visitors, see press cuttings at MSS. Welensky Papers 297/5-312/3 and the series of 'personal' files at MSS. Welensky Papers 584/2-686/11.

See MSS. Welensky Papers 594/6 for the visit of HH the Kabaka of Buganda.