Annual report on Nyasaland / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Annual report on Nyasaland / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The terms of the Federal Constitution, which during the previous seven years had evoked such “ pathological dislike ”, required that a review of its provisions should be undertaken between 1960 and 1962. In preparation for this, Lord Monckton and a group of other experienced persons (among them three Africans of Nyasaland) were entrusted by Her Majesty’s Government with the task of advising the Governments concerned. Their report, based on a considerable volume of spoken and written evidence from all three territories, appeared on 11th October, 1960, and took its place among the documents to be considered at the review conference which opened in London early in December.