'Don' Taylor, New Commonwealth, London continued, Jan 1956-May 1962

folder

Held at the Weston Library

Includes:

immigration and economic development
Kariba
Sebakwe by-election
citizenship and franchise
lack of British competitiveness
suggestions that groups of British MPs visit the Federation
African advancement and labour relations
constitutional advance for the Federation, techniques, and timing
Suez and the Commonwealth
the European Economic Community
1957 constitutional negotiations, aiming for a Central Africa Office, and a constitutional review in 1960
1958 Southern Rhodesian (Zimbabwean) cabinet crisis and general election
Taylor's view of Banda
Nigeria's prospects, contrast with Ghana, and Dr Azikiwe's ambitions
Nyasaland Emergency
Taylor's assessment of Macleod
release of Banda
1960 Kenyan Constitutional Conference
African states and the Congo crisis
intimidation in the 1961 Nyasaland (Malawi) elections
Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) constitutional debates
loss of trained civil servants a feature of independence in African states
Ruanda-Urundi
Asians seeking to move from East Africa to the Federation
Roy Welensky's New Commonwealth article on Kariba (1956).