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Papers relating to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) (RIIA) Commonwealth Conference in Lagos, Nigeria, 1962, comprising correspondence between Professor Charles Edmund Carrington, RIIA and Prof Kenneth Robinson, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, draft papers on African politics, aid and trade, draft reports on the cold war in Africa, pan-africanism, Britain's application to join the European Common Market, and the future of Commonwealth co-operation in Africa

Papers concerning Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), 1964-1967; comprising copy of the Proclamation of Independence, Nov 1965; letters regarding sanctions, and democracy in Rhodesia; message from the Prime Minister of Rhodesia (Ian Smith) to the African people of Rhodesia regarding independence; press cuttings, mainly from the Rhodesia Herald, Nationalist, The Observer (London) and the Sunday Times (London).

Papers delivered to the Southern Rhodesia Constitutional Conference, Lancaster House, London 1979, comprising summary of independence constitution; British Government proposals for the ceasefire arrangements; statement by Lord Carrington, British Foreign Secretary; Patriotic Front proposals on basic principles for a ceasefire and the British Government's full presentation on the ceasefire.

Bulletins issued by Joe Kennedy commenting on politics in Rhodesia, 1966-1969; including notes of interview with the Acting British High Commissioner John Hennings, Jan 1967; comments on meeting between Ian Smith and Harold Wilson at Gibraltar, Oct 1968; comments on visit of George Thomson, British Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, to Rhodesia, Nov 1968; comments on the detention and trial of Rev Ndabaningi Sithole, 1968-1969.