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

Abstract

The General Assembly continued to make quite a distinction between South Africans and the Portuguese as unregenerate, and the British who were regarded as trying, though not hard enough, to get on with the decolonisation process. We abstained on two resolutions about Southern Rhodesia, which urged the UK to do what it was unwilling (and now, with Whitehead’s surprising defeat will be unable) to do.