International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

1. Memorandum From the Secretary of State’s Special Assistant ( Holmes ) to Secretary of State Dulles

me of overall applicability such as the Loi-Cadre. However, there is the declared policy of HMG to lead dependent territories toward self-government as rapidly as they are capable of accepting that responsibility. Progress varies widely from that in Nigeria which will probably become independent in April 1960 The actual date was October 1, 1960. to the High Commission territories of Swaziland, Basutoland and Bechuanaland where much remains to be done and where the situation is complicated by the fact that the first two are islands of British rule in the sea of the Union of South Africa and thr…