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- July 1960 (Creation)
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1 notebook and 1 pdf file
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Written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on the Republic of the Congo, including: economic aid to [the Congo / Katanga]; conflict and the UN, Belgian and Soviet involvement; food distribution; unemployment; natural resources; manufacturing, mining and the economy; government debt and financial crisis; petrol shortages and UN forces including Irish soldiers. Also contains notes concerning SR [Southern Rhodesia] including Leopold Takawira and the condition of lakes and rivers in Africa.
Names featured include: Dr Thomas Evans, Daphne Park, [Kwame] Nkrumah, [Patrice] Lumumba, [Louis Edgar] Detwiler, Tai Solarin, Charles Bayuko, Pascal Nkayi, [Albert] Ndele, [Ralph] Bunche and J M Caldecott.
Page 9 contains a letter of introduction for Clyde Sanger to Dr Balwatz from Daphne Paul.
Transcribed by Rosemarie Dowsett in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.
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Copyright: Clyde Sanger and unknown (p9)
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- Sanger; Clyde (1928-2022); journalist (Subject)