South Africa. study notes on the whole topic.

Britain, in its unique position as the former colonial power and the major investing country in South Africa, had been one of the main targets of Black South Africans' diplomatic efforts since the establishment of the Union in 1910. By the end of World War Two and the following election of the Nationalist Party in 1948, most of the hopes for British support of the predicament of Black South Africans had shifted to the United Nations (UN) …

…B 128 CC. 8 (64), Minutes of a Cabinet meeting on the question of arms for South Africa, 12 November 1964. 79. Ibid., 24 November 1964. 80. PRO: FO 371/177072, Minutes of a conversation between J Wilson, Foreign Office, and Lord Chancellor, 18 December 1964. 81. PRO: FO 371/177072, Telegram from Pretoria to the Foreign Office on South African reactions to British elections, 20 October 1964. 82. PRO: FO 371/167557, Sir Alec Douglas Home, Instructions to Sir Hugh Stephenson when he takes up his post as Ambassador: UK policy towards South Africa, 12 June 1963.