UK: BRIGADIER ANDREW SKEEN - NEW RHODESIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER IN LONDON - ARRIVES TO TAKE UP POST.

Record ID: 521116

  • Title: UK: BRIGADIER ANDREW SKEEN - NEW RHODESIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER IN LONDON - ARRIVES TO TAKE UP POST.
  • Date: 22nd July 1965
  • Summary: 1. PLANE TAXIS 2. DOWN STEPS OF PLANE 3. INTO CAR 4. PHOTOGRAPHER 5. AWAY 0.54 Initials PC/S/RM/PN Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th August 1965 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, U.K.
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA9BVO89H209JU082SCL1HHHGAU
  • Story Text: BRIGADIER ANDREW SKEEN, NEW RHODESIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER IN LONDON, ARRIVED IN LONDON TODAY (THURSDAY) TO TAKE UP HIS POST. HE SAID ONE OF HIS FIRST DUTIES WOULD BE "TO ENLIGHTEN THE BRITISH PUBLIC" ABOUT RHODESIA. SOME BRITONS WHO WENT OUT TO RHODESIA WERE "VERY IGNORANT OF RHODESIAN AFFAIRS."
    HE WAS TO CALL ON MT. ARTHUR BOTTOMLEY, COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY, TOMORROW.
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