Contains: (item 1) 'South West Africa: Annexation or United Nations Trusteeship?': text of a memorandum by Dr A.B. Xuma, President-General of the African National Congress, published in pamphlet form by H.A. Naidoo and Sorabjee Rustomjee, Delegates of the South African Passive Resistance Council (32 pp.), Nov 1946 (fols. 1-10) text of Statement made to the United Nations Organization by...

Contains: (fol. 1) notes [by Rita Hinden] on minutes and reports of Permanent Mandates Commission, 1923-1938, n.d. (fols. 2-14) memorandum on the treatment of non-European prisoners addressed by Michael Scott, in Durban Central Gaol, to the Commission on Penal and Prison Reform; with a covering letter from Scott to the Minister of Justice, 14 Aug-5 Sep 1946 (fols. 15-36)...

Contains: (fols. 1-5) letter from Wilfrid Benson to Marjorie Nicholson, annotated by her, about non-self-governing territories and the UN in relation to criticism in Venture, 26 Jan 1953 (fols. 6-7) UN releases relating to a proposal by the Trusteeship Committee that UN missions should visit dependent territories before any change in status, and to an appeal...

Contains papers and correspondence, mainly about the projected incorporation of the mandated territory within the Union of South Africa; also some material relating to the Union's internal affairs. Specifically, contents include: folder 1: printed papers, UN publications and some correspondence, 1946-1947 folder 2: 'Documents', 1946-1951 folder 3: papers relating to the...