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PDF 90 Apr 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Mr Mandela") ["she would like if anything to err on the side of generosity and invite him to a talk followed by a working lunch"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to FCO (Mandela) [Ambassador's conversation with Mandela in hospital; preparation for meeting with MT in July] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute for MT (call from Mandela) [Mandela seeks meeting with MT at last minute; CDP suggests a call] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 17 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (Mandela phone call to MT) [asks her not to press colleagues at upcoming European Council to lift sanctions; MT afterwards said she was "a bit disappointed with Mandela, who seemed to have rather a closed mind"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Hurd) [MT's phone conversation with Mandela; MT "repeated that she had been rather disappointed in him"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (Mandela) [analysis of his position, complex pressures upon him] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO & Personal for UK High Commissioner Lusaka (Mandela) ["Mandela wants a negotiated outcome"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Lusaka: personal for High Commissioner and Shipster) [analysis of current political situation] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Mandela") ["the impression we want to emerge from the meeting is of some courteous straight-talking"; account also of Mandela conversation with Hurd] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT notes (remarks at lunch with Mandela?) ["All lasting solutions are grown solutions .... There is a new generation not caught up in the outdated Marxist shibboleths of the ANC"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Mandela) [nationalisation; sanctions; armed struggle; elections; continuing contacts] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Mandela) ["a successful meeting with an excellent atmosphere ... he expressed his views on the main issues in conciliatory terms"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 91 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with Mandela") [Mandela asked to see MT when she visited South Africa, though not all ANC would approve; asks would she see Treurnicht? right wing parties needed to be pressurised to join negotiations] [declassified Dcr 2018]
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