Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 June 1964.
Mr Arthur Bottomley
, Middlesbrough East
12:00,
4 June 1964
Have approaches been made to the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia about the holding of a constitutional conference? Secondly, bearing in mind the comments of the United Nations mission, which has just left this country, will the Prime Minister consider sending out a Minister to stress to the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia the importance of seeing that the Africans have their rights?
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