Harold Macmillan wind of change speech
- Title
- Harold Macmillan wind of change speech
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1981
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- Duration
- 00:01:41
- Description
- Extract from Conservative UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s Wind of Change speech to the Joint Assembly of the Union Parliament of South Africa in Cape Town on 03/02/60, which signalled his government’s intention to restart decolonisation by granting independence to Brtish territories in Africa.
- Contributors
- Harold Macmillan
- Keywords
- Great Britain; Political reform; Colonial countries; Independence; Africa; Independence movements; Dependent territories
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