This series, comprising extracts from files, contains 'personal messages' - a type of communication used between Commonwealth leaders and routed through their High Commissioners - between the Federal Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the various Secretaries of State (Colonies, Commonwealth Relations, and the First Secretary of State - Butler), as well as correspondence and telegrams/telexes between the Federal Prime Minister, the Federal High Commissioner in...

Includes: minutes of meeting between the Federal cabinet and Lennox-Boyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies (Salisbury (Harare), 8 Jan 1957) notes and minutes of meetings with the Secretaries of State (London, 12-17 Apr and 25 Jun-1 Jul 1957), with drafts and texts of communiqués concerning franchise and citizenship, constitutional amendments, entrustment of external affairs,...

Includes summary of discussions between the Federal cabinet and Perth, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Salisbury (Harare), 19 Mar) and Home, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Salisbury (Harare), 1 Apr) concerning the security situation in Nyasaland (Malawi) and the appointment of the 'Devlin' and 'Monckton' commissions.

Includes agenda papers and minutes of meetings between the Federal cabinet and Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Salisbury (Harare), 19-20 Jan), and between the Federal Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (London, 9 May), concerning the 'Monckton' Commission, the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo), security matters and constitutional advance in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Nyasaland (Malawi), with related memoranda; possible visit of Roy...

Includes records of meetings between Federal, Southern Rhodesian (Zimbabwean), and United Kingdom ministers (London, 7 Jul, 28 Nov, and 10 Dec), concerning the Federal Review Conference, the 'Monckton' Report, and territorial constitutional advance, with related press statements, etc.