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South Africa: Prime Minister Charles letter to MT (action agaisnt apartheid) ["my views on apartheid... diametrically opposed to yours... better to have a short and very painful period [of sanctions]... than a long drawn-out... confrontation"] [declassified Feb 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1970 f85 T161B/86
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 1p
Themes: Trade, Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Commonwealth (Rhodesia-Zimbabwe), Commonwealth (South Africa), British policy towards South Africa, MT messages to and from world leaders