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321. Telegram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in Salisbury

of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland formally requesting that the Consulate General provide it with a statement of U.S. policy toward the Federation in light of certain statements made by Assistant Secretary Williams during his recent trip to Lagos. The Federation asked whether the announced U.S. policy of favoring self-determination for all African territories implied that the United States “supports the vesting of political control in a country such as the Federation in the numerically preponderant black African population in the immediate future.” (Ibid.) Congen should submit followi…

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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	1961-05-12
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XXI, Africa
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v21/d321
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v21/d321`

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321. Telegram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in Salisbury. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v21/d321.