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The Second Secretary of the Embassy in the United Kingdom ( Tibbetts ) to the Department of State

inst Mr. Lyttelton on the general question of his handling of Colonial problems. As the Manchester Guardian pointed out in a not unfriendly editorial, the record of the Colonial Secretary in recent months is not good. He has had his successes in the Nigerian Conference and the West Indies, but Kenya, Nayasaland, Northern Rhodesia, British Guiana and now Nigeria again have all displayed disturbing symptoms. With the Labor Party it has become a tenet of faith to attack Mr. Lyttelton wildly and violently and at the moment the Labor press is trumpetting loudly that “ Lyttelton must go,” or “This m…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1953-12-07
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Africa and South Asia, Volume XI, Part 1
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v11p1/d158
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Record ID	`frus:frus1952-54v11p1/d158`

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The Second Secretary of the Embassy in the United Kingdom ( Tibbetts ) to the Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1953. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1952-54v11p1/d158.