Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Papers of the Secretariat to Lord Carver

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Title: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Papers of the Secretariat to Lord Carver
Description:

The series contains the documents generated by Lord Carver’s Secretariat. The files contain the record from:

  • Secretariats meetings (1977-78);
  • organisation, composition and personnel of the Rhodesian civil service;
  • planning and monitoring of the ceasefire agreement;
  • proceedings of the ceasefire commission;
  • report of the British Military Advisory and Training Team in Zimbabwe (1980-1982);
  • Organisation of the Governor's Office and BHC Salisbury;
  • Governor's diary 1980;
  • Commission appointing Lord Soames to become Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1979;
  • Press arrangements for Constitutional Conference in London 1979;
  • ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People’s Union) Central Committee members 1979;
  • declarations of political leaders at election council;
  • Final reports from all provincial supervisors.
Date: 1977-1982
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-
Physical description: file(s)
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Immediate source of acquisition:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Selection and destruction information: Selected under Records Collection Policy.
Accruals: No accruals are expected after initial transfer.
Administrative / biographical background:

In August 1977 Lord Carver was appointed resident commissioner designate for Rhodesia with responsibility for ending the dispute over independence there. He resigned after fourteen months of deadlock. This collection was created by Lt Col W E Rous, one of Lord Carver’s Secretariat staff.

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