UK views on postwar Nauruan moves towards independence and ownership of the phosphate enterprise Box 56 Unit ID: 2
Visit of acting Minister for External Territories (Chambers) in 1949. Principally an investigation of Nauruan complaints against Administrator Ridgway Box 54 Unit ID: 8
With the postwar formation of the United Nations Organisation the question of mandates and the rights of 'colonial' people came under scrutiny and much ideological discussion. The case of the Nauruans and the rights to mine their phosphate was debated at length and with partisan bias, and for a time it seemed that the operations of the BPC might be declared-illegal. Although this was avoided the first step had been taken towards Nauruan Independence and the takeover, 30 years later, of the phosphate operation by the Nauruans Box 56 Unit ID: 3
Young goes to Singapore to check on the maintenance of 'The Islander', 1953 Box 55 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1953