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…

Includes: copies of various submissions to the 'Monckton' Commission surveys of developments under the Federation (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi) (with financial and statistical details) papers on the cost of a break-up and putting forward the case for federation, and opinion of Sir Ivor Jennings on the 1957 convention on legislative non-interference …