West Indian Islands, Federated 1958-62 Abbreviations Preface 1. Inter War Origins 2. Planning the Federation 3. Final Preparations 4. Forming a Government 5. First Session of Parliament 6. Chaguaramas 7. The Prime Minister Speaks 8. Confrontation 9. Intergovernmental Conference, 1959 10. A Series of Irritants 11. Mr. Manley goes to London 12. Progress of Committees 13. The Referendum Decision 14. Mr. Iain Macleod's Visit 15. The Antigua Pact 16. Committees Report 17. Intergovernmental Conference, 1960 18. The Last Three Hurdles 19. Organized Delay 20. Intergovernmental Conference, 1961 21. Lancaster House 22. The Federal Bond 23. The Referendum 24. To Save the Ship 25. The Final Count Epilogue by Sir W Arthur Lewis Who's Who Bibliography Index
Biography
Sir John Mordecai (from Jamaica) was an exemplary civil servant at the national and regional levels. He was a senior executive engaged in the establishment of the West Indies Federation, 1952-1962.
Reviews of the original publication:
“This is, by any standard, an important book. It is the first full length analysis of the West Indian Federal venture which ended so abruptly with the Jamaican referendum decision of September, 1961. It is notwithstanding a few other attempted explanations of the Federal failure, a pioneer in the field, and it does what all such works must do: it gives a credible account of the events that matter, and it raises a number of questions, some of them new. But above all this is a book written by a generation about itself.”
James Millette, Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4 (DECEMBER 1969), pp. 408-420
