1. A. Sampson, Mandela: The Authorised Biography (London: 2000), p. 129.
2. Stanley Baldwin, in 1934, spoke of ‘a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world’ and Nehru, in 1947, referred to ‘strong winds’ ‘blowing all over Asia’. Safire’s Political Dictionary (Oxford: 2008), p. 814.
3. D.R. Thorpe, Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan (London: 2010), pp. 453, 457–8; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), CAB 129/101, despatch by John Maud, 18 Feb. 1960, in ‘Prime Minister’s African Tour January–February’, p. 159.
4. A. Sampson, Macmillan: A Study in Ambiguity (London: 1967), p. 139.
5. Sampson, Macmillan, p. 181; D. Goldsworthy, ‘Conservatives and decolonization: a note on the interpretation by Dan Horowitz’, African Affairs, 69 (1970), pp. 278–81 at p. 280; S.J. Ball, ‘Banquo’s ghost: Lord Salisbury, Harold Macmillan, and the high politics of decolonization, 1957–1963’, Twentieth- Century British History, 16 (2005), pp. 74–102.