Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- [1967] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 notebook and 2 pdf files
Context area
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Double sided reporter's notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes taken by Sanger in his role as Guardian UN correspondent including: the withdrawal of troops from Yugoslavia; the Vietnam war; arms supply to the Middle East; sanctions against Southern Rhodesia; Arab-Israeli conflict; Britain's NIBMAR (no independence before majority rule) policy; Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique; the role of the Commonwealth; UN resolution 233 and concerns on the outbreak of fighting in the Middle East; and the Zimbabwe War of Independence.
The book also contains notes relating to Canada including: British week in Toronto; Glendon College and 'The Quiet Revolution' in Quebec; and relations between Quebec and France.
Names featured include: [Reuben] Kamanga, [William] Dennison, [Anthony] Crosland, Lester B. Pearson, [Muhammad] Zafarullah Khan, [George] Ignatieff, Ian Douglas Smith, [Heward] Grafftey, [Eric] Keirans and [René] Lévesque.
Transcribed 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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System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
The original notebook and full transcript is closed in line with data privacy. A redacted version of the transcript is available. Please contact the archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright: Clyde Sanger
Language of material
Script of material
Access Status
Open(part)
Closed until
01/01/2051