Sins of colonialists lay concealed for decades in secret archive | UK news | guardian.co.uk William Hague, the foreign secretary, conceded
that under the obligations of the Public Records Act 1958, the FCO
should have assessed the documents and passed any of historical interest
to the National Archives
at Kew in Surrey. He also commissioned an inquiry by Anthony Cary, the
former British high commissioner to Canada, to establish what had gone
wrong and what lessons could be learned.
