Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1914 - 1960 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
No. of Boxes: 10
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, incoming and outgoing cables, code cables, press communiques, press clippings, resolutions, draft documents, journal excerpts, telegrams, verbatim reports from meetings, press statements, press releases, working papers, testimonies, and brochures. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: South African legislation; apartheid; economic aspects of the problem of communism; The Afrikaner Party; The Torch Commando; policy statements; racial tensions; strikes; passive resistance; Geneva Session; and government responses.
Correspondents include Mr. Kamleshwar Das, Acting Secretary, UNCORS; Dr. D. Protitch, Principal Director, Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, UN Headquarters; Jean A. Romanos, Principal Secretary, UNCORS; Hernan Santa-Cruz, President, Chairman, UN Commission on Racial Situation in South Africa; Andrew Cordier, Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General; Carey Seward, Acting Director, Field Operations Service, UN Headquarters; Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General; and D. Tloome, Acting Secretary-General, African National Congress.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
