Note from the British Foreign Office to the United Kingdom High Commissioners in the Commonwealth on the arrangements for an Afro-Asian Conference (4 February 1955)
Text On 4 February 1955, a note sent by the British Foreign Office to the United Kingdom High Commissioners in the Commonwealth outlines the United Kingdom’s concerns surrounding the conference, to be attended by the representatives of 23 Asian countries and six African countries. The Foreign Office suggests that there is a risk that the Afro-Asian Conference will be influenced by communist hostility to the West and by neutralism.
Quelle und Copyright
Quelle: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Intel. From Foreign Office to certain of Her Majesty's Representatives. Afro-Asian Conference. 04-02-1955. No. 30. Aufbewahrt in: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). DO - Records created or inherited by the Dominions Office, and of the Commonwealth Relations and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, DO 35 - Dominions Office and Commonwealth Relations Office: Original Correspondence. Far East and Pacific Department. Afro-Asian Conference 1955, Bandung, DO 35/6097.
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