Cohen, Andrew2011-06-032011-06-032010-07Cohen, A 2010, '“A difficult, tedious and unwanted task” : representing the Central African Federation in the United Nations, 1960-1963', Itinerario International Journal on the history of European Expansion and Global Interaction, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 105-128. [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ITI]0165-1153 (print)2041-2827 (online)10.1017/S0165115310000379http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16704The 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.enCambridge University Press.Central African FederationUnited Nations, 1960-1963Central African FederationUnited NationsAfrica, Central -- Politics and governmentRhodesia (Region)DecolonizationArticle