Albert G. 'Jock' and Louise 'Lou' Easton, Bulawayo, Jan 1964-Feb 1967

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Includes:

personal
employment
Roy Welensky's foreign travels and engagements
Rhodesia Railways; management and difficulties
pressure to return to politics; offers of Rhodesia National Party leadership (Apr-Jun 1964)
malpractices with electoral registration, Arundel, and elsewhere
the Rhodesia Party and the 1965 elections
developments and paranoia in Zambia (1964-25 Jan 1966)
North American ignorance of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) (and the rest of Africa)
'The Ancient Mariner' marina
effects of Unilateral Declaration of Independence and recent events in changing the political allegiances of many former colleagues
Roy Welensky's views of Unilateral Declaration of Independence, new Rhodesians, the United Nations, and mandatory sanctions, the Congo, British politics, and politicians, etc. (1966-1967)
splits in the Rhodesian Front and rightward drift (Jan 1967)
death of Lou Easton.

Dates

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MSS. Welensky Papers 744/4

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