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“A difficult, tedious and unwanted task”: Representing the Central African Federation in the United Nations, 1960–1963

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2010

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On Tuesday 22 January, 1963, the First Secretary of State and Minister in charge of the Central Africa Office, R.A. Butler, met with the Southern Rhodesia Cabinet in Salisbury. Butler notified the Cabinet that he was visiting the Central African Federation in order to “gauge for himself” the situation. Southern Rhodesia, he remarked, was “an issue unjustifiably pursued at the United Nations” and countering this negative international opinion “was providing the British Government with a difficult, tedious and unwanted task”.

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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2010

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