Author: SKEEN, BRIGADIER ANDREW.
Title: Prelude to Independence. Skeen's 115 Days.
Description: Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel, 1966. 1st edition. Pp.219,4 pages of black & white photos + 7 cartoon illustrations by Cummings (from the Daily Express), owner's name to front free endpaper, occasional light spottinng mainly affcting closed page edges. Orange cloth, dustwrapper has edge tears with small losses. G+/G.** Brigadier Andrew Skeen ICD OBE was a British Indian Army officer, and Rhodesian politician who served as the last High Commissioner from Rhodesia to the United Kingdom from 22 July to 12 November 1965. His total tenure lasted 115 days..On 11 November 1965, when Rhodesia announced its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), Skeen was summoned by the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Arthur Bottomley, for a meeting at 1.15pm, who ordered Skeen to denounce the UDI or face being declared persona non grata with the removal of all privileges and expulsion from 13 November. Skeen refused and departed London voluntarily the following day. (wiki).

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