Title:MICHAEL STEWART INTERVIEWED AS FOREIGN SECRETARY [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 601
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Summary: Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart being asked questions about British policy in the Nigerian war.
Description: Panel of interviewers comprises Richard Hermann of Norway, Andrew Manderstam of Luxembourg, Paul Anderson of West Germany, José Antonio Plaza of Spain, Pertti Salolainen of Finland, Lennart Winblad of Sweden and Theodore Haller of Switzerland. Some of the ideas argued: the idea that the British government is basically unsympathetic to Biafra; that many people regard this as a genuine African civil war; verbal comparison with Abraham Lincoln's decision in the American Civil War; British aid to Nigeria; the impossibility of the British Government being neutral; British reaction to the French supply of arms to Biafra; where African opinion lies, and the story of Swiss arms being illegally sold to Nigeria.
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Anderson, Paul (person)
Haller, Theodore (person)
Hermann, Richard (person)
Manderstam, Andrew (person)
Plaza, Jose Antonio (person)
Salolainen, Pertti (person)
Stewart, Robert Michael Maitland (person)
Winblad, Lennart (person)
Keywords: administration, British - overseas: Nigeria (object name)
strategy, British: Nigerian War (object name)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 675 ft; Running time: 7 mins
