1. Prain, Reflections, 216; A.D. Roberts, ‘Notes towards a financial history of copper mining in Northern Rhodesia’, Canadian Journal of African Studies 16 (1982), 354.
2. R. Dumett, ‘Africa’s strategic minerals during the Second World War’, Journal of African History 26 (1985), 395.
3. See L.J. Butler, ‘Reconstruction, development and the entrepreneurial state: the British colonial model, 1939–1951’, Contemporary British History, 13, 4 (1999), 29–55.
4. On the formation and work of the CEAC, see B. Ingham, ‘Shaping opinion on development policy: Economists and the Colonial Office during World War II’, History of Political Economy 24, 3 (1992), 689–710
5. NA CO 795/133/3, Anderson to Stanley, 14 Oct. 1944. See also R.E. Robinson, ‘Andrew Cohen and the transfer of power in Tropical Africa, 1940–1951’, in W.H. Morris-Jones and G. Fisher (eds), Decolonisation and After: The British and French Experience (London, 1980), 58; M. Cowen and N. Westcott, ‘British imperial economic policy during the war’, in D. Killingray and R. Rathbone (eds), Africa and the Second World War (London, 1986), 48–9; an even more fundamental, and apparently insurmountable barrier to the purchase of the rights was the adamant refusal of the BSAC’s chairman, Sir Dougal Malcolm, to consider any sale: see P. Slinn, ‘Commercial concessions and politics during the colonial period: the role of the British South Africa Company in Northern Rhodesia, 1890–1964’, African Affairs 70 (1971), 377.