Colour Bar (56 page)

28.
Pela, ‘A tribal Chief gets married',
Common Sense
, June 1949, CROUW, M. D. J. Jeffreys Collection.

29.
Gasebalwe Seretse,
Tshekedi Khama
, p. 32.

30.
[Miss] Dykes to Holmes, 22 December 1949, BNARS, S 599/13.

31.
Today
, 12 March 1960.

1.
Harragin Report, 1 December 1949, TNA:PRO, PREM 8/1308, Part 1.

2.
Baring to Huggins, 7 December 1949, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1286; Benn,
Years of Hope
, p. 40.

3.
Huggins to Clark, 12 December 1949, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1286.

4.
Clark to Resident Commissioner, Maseru, 15 December 1949, ibid.

5.
Brigadier C. E. R. Hirsch to Sillery, 20 December 1949, ibid.

6.
Fraenkel to Nettelton, 22 December 1949, BNARS, S 529/2/2.

7.
Minute to Baxter, 12 December 1949, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4118; emphasis added.

8.
Note of a meeting at CRO, 16 December 1949, TNA:PRO, CO 537/4714.

9.
Noel-Baker to Attlee, 21 December 1949, TNA:PRO, PREM 8/1308.

10.
Memorandum by Noel-Baker on issue of Bechuanaland Succession, n.d. [21 December 1949], ibid.

11.
Attlee to Noel-Baker, 21 December 1949, TNA:PRO, PREM 8/1308.

12.
Mandela,
Long Walk to Freedom
, pp. 130–32.

13.
Enclosure I, Seretse Khama [by Baring], 29 October 1949, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1286.

14.
Memorandum [by Baring] on aspects of South African opinion, December 1949, ibid.

15.
Quintin Whyte to Baring, 6 September 1949, ibid.

16.
Huggins to Clark, 19 December 1949, ibid.

17.
Clark to Huggins, 22 December 1949, ibid.

18.
Gordon Walker to Attlee, 21 January 1950; Attlee to Gordon Walker, 22 January 1950, TNA:PRO, PREM 8/1308.

19.
Lambert to Cohen, 28 January 1950, TNA:PRO, CO 537/5927.

20.
Minute by Cohen, 30 January 1950, ibid.

21.
Noel-Baker to Attlee, 1 February 1950, TNA:PRO PREM 8/1308, Part 1.

1.
Clark to Redman, 5 February 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1288.

2.
Today
, 12 March 1960.

3.
Clark to Sillery, 28 November 1949, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1286.

4.
Doris Bradshaw to Hope Lovell, 6 February 1950, BNARS, MSS.6.

5.
Bourke-White, ‘The White Queen', unpublished chapter from memoir, SUL (US), MB-W Papers.

6.
Star
, 9 February 1950.

7.
Sillery to Baring, n.d. [8 February 1950], TNA:PRO, DO 119/1288.

8.
Star
, 9 February 1950.

9.
Doris Bradshaw to Hope Lovell, 9 February 1950, BNARS, MSS.6.

10.
Sillery to Baring, n.d. [8 February 1950], TNA:PRO, DO 119/1288.

11.
ibid.

12.
Star
, 9 February 1950.

13.
Bourke-White, ‘The White Queen', unpublished chapter from memoir, SUL (US), MB-W Papers.

14.
Movietone newsreel, ‘Seretse Khama Comes to England Alone', 20 February 1950.

15.
Sillery to Baring, 13 February 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1288.

16.
Ebony
, June 1951.

17.
S. G. Seretse and O. Ratshose to Noel-Baker, 15 February 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1288.

18.
Bourke-White, ‘The White Queen', unpublished chapter from memoir, SUL (US), MB-W Papers.

19.
ibid.

20.
‘Bourke-White', n.d., SUL (US), MB-W, Box 25.

21.
Pathe newsreel, ‘Seretse Khama Comes in from Africa', 20 February 1950; see also ‘Seretse Khama Comes to England Alone,' Movietone newsreel, 20 February 1950.

22.
Baxter to Liesching, 14 February 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 121/57.

23.
Baxter to Liesching, 11 February 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4119.

24.
Liesching to Noel-Baker, in Noel-Baker to Baring, 15 February 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1288.

25.
Note of Mr Keith's report of his conversations with Seretse on 14 February, 15 February 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4119.

26.
Note of a meeting at the CRO, Thursday 16 February, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1288.

27.
Note of a conversation between Seretse and Keith, 17 February 1950, TNA:PRO, PREM 8/1308.

28.
Sunday Express
, 19 February 1950.

29.
Liesching to Gordon Walker and Addison, 28 February 1950, TNA:PRO, PREM 8/1308.

30.
Attlee's draft autobiography, quoted in Pearce (ed.),
Patrick Gordon Walker
, pp. 17–18.

31.
Pearce, Introduction to
Patrick Gordon Walker
, p. 20.

32.
Gann and Gelfand,
Huggins of Rhodesia
, p. 217.

33.
Photograph in ibid., opp. p. 209.

34.
Liesching to Gordon Walker and Addison, 28 February 1950, TNA:PRO, PREM 8/1308.

35.
Cabinet Conclusions, 3 March 1950, TNA:PRO, CAB 128.

36.
ibid.

37.
A. Johnston to Norman Brook, 6 March 1950, TNA:PRO, CAB 21/3167.

38.
Ebony
, June 1951.

39.
ibid.

40.
Movietone newsreel, ‘Seretse Khama Talks to Movietone', 13 March 1950.

41.
Monks,
Eyewitness
, p. 280.

42.
Today
, 12 March 1960.

43.
Ebony
, June 1951.

44.
Quoted in Mockford,
Seretse Khama and the Bamangwato
, p. 5.

45.
Life
, 28 April 1950.

1.
Diary entry for 2 April 1950, Pearce (ed.),
Patrick Gordon Walker
, p. 188.

2.
Gordon Walker to Attlee, 7 March 1950, with additional note by Attlee, 7 March 1950, TNA:PRO, PREM 8/1308.

3.
Hansard
, 8 March 1950.

4.
Egeland to Malan, 8 March 1950, NASA, PM, vol. 1/4/21, 1/15.

5.
Brockway,
Towards Tomorrow
, p. 161.

6.
Brockway,
Outside the Right
, p. 76.

7.
The Times
, 9 March 1950.

8.
Hansard
, 8 March 1950.

9.
Brockway,
Outside the Right
, p. 76.

10.
Hansard
, 8 March 1950.

11.
Monks,
Eyewitness
, p. 280.

12.
Ebony
, June 1951.

13.
Baring to Liesching, 8 March 1950, TNA:PRO, CO 537/5927.

14.
Gordon Walker to Baring, 10 March 1950, TNA:PRO, PREM 8/1308 Part 1.

15.
Baring to Gordon Walker, 10 March 1950, TNA:PRO, CO 537/5928.

16.
‘Stimson of BBC (after 1 hr talk with Clark of High Commission Office)', n.d. [March 1950], Truman Library, Sweeney Papers, Box 2, File: Bamangwato Tribal Dispute.

17.
‘Native Chiefs Ignore High Commissioner', Movietone newsreel, 30 March 1950.

18.
Doris Bradshaw to Kit and Harry, 3 July 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1297.

19.
‘Stimson of BBC (after 1 hr talk with Clark of High Commission Office)', n.d. [March 1950], Truman Library, Sweeney Papers, Box 2, File: Bamangwato Tribal Dispute.

20.
Redfern,
Ruth and Seretse
, p. 123.

21.
Monks,
Eyewitness
, pp. 280–81.

22.
The Times
, 13 March 1950.

23.
Sillery, ‘Working Backwards', n.d., BLCAS, Rhodes House, Mss Afr r 207.

24.
Cape Times
, 11 March 1950.

25.
Goareng Mosinyi to author, 12 November 2004.

26.
Monks,
Eyewitness
, p. 281.

27.
Fairlie,
No Time Like the Past
, p. 146; Monks,
Eyewitness
, p. 281.

28.
Doris Bradshaw to Kit and Harry, 3 July 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1297.

29.
Redfern,
Ruth and Seretse
, p. 125.

30.
Monks,
Eyewitness
, p. 281.

31.
Baring to CRO, 15 March 1950, TNA:PRO, CO 537/5928.

32.
Uniform described by Douglas-Home,
Evelyn Baring
, pp. 120–21.

33.
Nicholas Monsarrat,
Life is a Four-Letter Word
, vol. II,
Breaking Out
, pp. 271–3.

34.
Monks,
Eyewitness
, p. 282.

35.
Movietone newsreel, ‘Native Chiefs Ignore High Commissioner', 30 March 1950.

36.
‘Memorandum of Conversation', between Clark, Connelly and Sweeney (US Embassy), 9 March 1950, Truman Library, Sweeney Papers, Box 2, File: Bamangwato Tribal Dispute.

37.
The Times
, 14 March 1950.

38.
Fairlie,
No Time Like the Past
, p. 147.

39.
The Times
, 14 March 1950.

40.
Report of press conference enclosed with letter to Clark from Resident Commissioner's Office, 14 March 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1290.

41.
Redfern,
Ruth and Seretse
, p. 127.

42.
Monsarrat to Clark, 17 April 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1293.

43.
Liesching to Baring, 14 March 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1291.

44.
Charles Douglas-Home,
Evelyn Baring
, p. 191.

45.
Gordon Walker to Liesching, 13 March 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 121/57.

46.
Baring to Gordon Walker, 15 March 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1290.

47.
The Times
, 14 March 1950.

48.
Fairlie,
No Time Like the Past
, p. 147.

49.
Seager,
The Shadow of a Great Rock
, p. 63.

50.
Redfern,
Ruth and Seretse
, p. 130.

51.
X. Y. Z. Kgobera to
Naledi ya Batswana
, sent 17 March 1950, not published, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1292.

52.
See Kuper,
Passive Resistance in South Africa
; Menon,
Passive Resistance in South Africa
; Itzkin,
Gandhi's Johannesburg. Birthplace of Satyagraha
.

53.
Doris Bradshaw to Hope Lovell, 1 April 1950, ibid.

54.
ibid.

55.
Baring to CRO, 15 March 1950, TNA:PRO, CO 537/5928.

56.
Doris Bradshaw to Kit and Harry, 3 July 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1297.

57.
Daily Mail
, 17 March 1950.

58.
Doris Bradshaw to Hope Lovell, 1 April 1950, BNARS, MSS.6/5.

59.
Alan Bradshaw to Hope Lovell, 1 April 1950, ibid.

60.
Baring to CRO, 15 March 1950, TNA:PRO, CO 537/5928.

61.
Clark to Baxter, 3 July 1950, TNA:PRO, DO, 35/4124.

62.
Reported in Thompson to Baring, 15 April 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1293.

1.
Ebony
, June 1951.

2.
The Committee comprised representatives from the African League, the East African Students Union, the British African Institute of Culture, the Gold Coast Union, the Sierra Leone Study Group, the Caribbean Labour Congress, the Coordinating Council for Colonial Student Affairs, the Council for Overseas Indians, the Sudan Association, the League of Coloured Peoples, the Coloured Workers Association and the West Indian Students Union. List from South Africa House, 22 March 1950, NASA, BLO PS 2/5A.

3.
Howat,
Learie Constantine
, p. 151.

4.
Adi,
West Africans in Britain
, p. 129.

5.
ibid., p. 158; List from South Africa House, 22 March 1950, NASA, BLO PS 2/5A.

6.
The Times
, 10 March 1950.

7.
The Times
, 13 March 1950.

8.
Constantine,
Colour Bar
, p. 185.

9.
The Times
, 20 March 1950.

10.
Mulumba, Secretary-General African League, to ‘Friends' [March 1950], TNA:PRO, CO 537/5926.

11.
Note of meeting between Griffiths, Gordon Walker and Seretse Khama Fighting Committee, 17 March 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4125.

12.
US Attaché Tibbetts to US Department of State, 20 March 1950, NARA, RG 59, Decimal File, Box 4897.

13.
Minute in Colonial Office, initials unclear, 9 March 1950, TNA:PRO, CO 323/1912/10.

14.
Record of conversation between Secretary of State and Krishna Menon, 15 March 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4120.

15.
The Times
, 13 March 1950.

16.
Reuters, 28 March 1950, NASA, BLO PS 2/5A.

17.
Resolution of the West Indian Political Forum, 13 March 1950, ibid.

18.
Joseph D. Sweeney to Secretary of State, March 1950, Truman Library, Sweeney Papers, Box 2, File: Bamangwato Tribal Dispute.

19.
Baring to Liesching, 27 May 1950, NASA, PM, vol. 1/4/21, 1/15.

20.
Williams to Gordon Walker, 28 March 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4125.

21.
Horne,
Black and Red
, p. 184.

22.
L. Finnegan to Williams, n.d., TNA:PRO, DO 35/4125.

23.
Copied from Sillery to Baring, 16 March 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1290.

24.
Mahabane to Attlee, n.d. [March 1950]; Naicker to Attlee, 11 March 1950, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1301.

25.
State Information Office, Cape Town, Political Survey, 13 March 1950, NASA, BLO PS 2/5A.

26.
Walter Carey to
The Times
, 11 March 1950.