Engagements and Invitations: Visits, Visitors, and Tours: Visits, 1953-1955

File

Shelfmark: MSS. Welensky Papers 393

Held at the Weston Library

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.

Comprises:

folder 1 (44 fols.) London: correspondence answered by Roy Welensky in London, of a social and personal nature and pertaining to business and economic affairs (alphabetical), Sep-Oct 1953
folder 2 (10 fols.) South Africa: correspondence concerning Roy Welensky's visit to the Cape, arrangements for it, and for meeting the Prime Minister of the Union (Dr D.F. Malan) [for visit to South African to open the Trades Union Congress and to Lourenço Marques (Maputo), see MSS. Welensky Papers 411/2], Sep-Oct 1954
folder 3 (43 fols.) London and Paris (Sep 1955): correspondence concerning Roy Welensky's visit; programmes, invitations, and business meetings with manufacturers and contractors of railway equipment and aircraft, Apr-Jul 1955
folder 4 (93 fols.) London and Paris (Sep 1955): correspondence concerning Roy Welensky's visit; programmes, invitations, and business meetings with manufacturers and contractors of railway equipment and aircraft, Aug 1955
folder 5 (135 fols.) London and Paris (Sep 1955): correspondence concerning Roy Welensky's visit; programmes, invitations, and business meetings with manufacturers and contractors of railway equipment and aircraft, Sep 1955
folder 6 (1 item) London and Paris: The Railway Gazette, Vol. 103 No. 11, 9 Sep 1955
folder 7 (5 fols.) London and Paris: photographs of French electric railway locomotives, n.d. [1955].

Dates

Creation: 1953-1955

Extent

7 folders

Language of Materials

English

Shelfmark

MSS. Welensky Papers 393

Additional Description

Arrangement

This section contains material relating to Welensky's foreign travels in Africa, America, and Europe, and visits to the United Kingdom, as well as extended visits to the two northern territories of the Federation (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi) (MSS. Welensky Papers 394/1, 396/1-5, 397/2-4, and 399/4). See the 'Tours' section (from MSS. Welensky Papers 410/1 onward), a separate heading in the original filing system, for other engagements within the Federation. Further material relating to London visits for constitutional discussions will be found at MSS. Welensky Papers 64/7-91/1, 197/1-220/4, and 700/3. Minutes of Commonwealth conferences are at MSS. Welensky Papers 169/1-170/4.