The Welensky Papers - A History of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland by JRT Wood 

The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, like the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, now looks like an aberration of History — a curious deviation from the inevitable course of events, a backward eddy in the river of time. It lasted only 10 years. It began with a 19-gun salute when its first Governor-General, Lord Llewellyn, steamed into Salisbury station on a heavy overcast day on 4 September 1953. It faded out at midnight on 31 December 1963. Lord Malvern (Godfrey Huggins) one of its architects and its first Prime Minister, was asked earlier that day whether he was distressed at its end. ‘No,’ he replied, ‘I shall have my usual whisky with dinner. Then I shall go to bed and allow the Federation to pass away in my sleep.’

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