| Title |
General political |
| Reference |
AMEJ 1/2 |
| Covering Dates |
1942–1960 |
| Extent and Medium |
34.5 archive boxes |
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| Content and context |
Papers from JA's early political career, on subjects including: his adoption as a Parliamentary candidate and general dealings with the Conservative Party; various overseas visits; the Empire Industries Association; the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); the Army League; the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951; the Suez Group; colonial and Commonwealth affairs, particularly relating to Africa. |
| Churchill/AMEJ 1/2 contains: |
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1
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Pamphlet "Blame the Old Gang" by Alec Cunningham-Reid.
1 file. |
1942 |
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2
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Parliamentary candidatures. Correspondence on JA's attempts to find a constituency and adoption as Parliamentary candidate for Preston [Lancashire], with correspondents including: Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative Central Office; James Thomas, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] (3); Leo Amery (7); Randolph Churchill on having JA as his fellow-candidate (2); Winston Churchill, Prime Minister; Ralph Assheton, Conservative Party Chairman [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; 2nd Lord Astor (2); 4th Lord Rayleigh; Duncan Duncan-Sandys; Sir Norman Seddon-Brown, Chairman of Preston Conservative Association (9); Harold Mitchell, Vice-Chairman, Conservative Central Office (3); Redvers Prior.
1 file. |
Apr 1943-Jul 1947 |
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3
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Conservative Central Office. Correspondence with Central Office and other party organisations, with correspondents including: Bernard Braine on tabling an amendment on Imperial Preference trade policy at the party conference (3); Leo Amery, giving advice on tabling an amendment on Imperial Preference and on speaking at the Federation of University Conservative and Unionist Associations conference, particularly on policy towards Europe and the Empire (3); Sir Herbert Williams [Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations] on JA's amendment; Marjorie Maxse, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party; James Thomas, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] on subjects including finding a fellow-candidate for JA at Preston [Lancashire] (7); Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative Central Office. Also includes: reprint of an article by Leo Amery on currency exchange, "Non-discrimination and convertibility"; text of a speech by Winston Churchill [leader of the Conservative Party] at the party conference in Llandudno [Wales], 1948; memoranda for speakers on various policy points; Central Office memorandum on the fuel and power crisis, 1947; policy paper on the 1946-47 plan of study.
1 file. |
Oct 1945-Oct 1948 |
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4
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Conservative Central Office. Correspondence with Central Office, with correspondents including: Marjorie Maxse, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party, on finding a new constituency agent for Preston [Lancashire]; James Thomas, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] on finding a new agent; 1st Lord Woolton, Chairman of the Conservative Party [earlier Frederick Marquis]. Also includes: memorandum on the Conservative Trade Union movement; excerpts from the 1949 Party Conference, including the passing of JA's resolution on Imperial Preference; memoranda for speakers on various policy points.
1 file. |
Jun 1948-Aug 1949 |
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5
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Tory Reform Committee. Correspondence with members of the committee, including: Lionel Heald, enclosing a resolution for the Conference of Conservative candidates on the need to reinvigorate the party; Hugh Molson; Ronald Tree.
1 file. |
May 1945-Sep 1945 |
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6
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Conservative Associations: miscellaneous. Correspondence with Conservative Central Office, the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations and various local associations, mainly on meetings and speaking engagements.
1 file. |
Nov 1947-Aug 1948 |
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7
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Conservative Associations: Association of Adopted Conservative Candidates. Mainly notices of meetings.
1 file. |
Nov 1947-Apr 1949 |
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8
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Correspondence with Ulster Unionist Headquarters. Congratulations from JA on the Unionists' election success.
1 file. |
Feb 1949 |
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9
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Text of speeches by Winston Churchill. Speeches and broadcasts by Churchill, leader of the Conservative Party (other than those made at Party Conferences), including: speech to Congress, 1952; "The State of the Nation", 1951; speech at Zurich University [Switzerland], 1946, on a united Europe; speech at Westminster College, Fulton [United States], 1946, on "The Sinews of Peace".
1 file. |
Mar 1946-May 1952 |
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10
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Visit to Saudi Arabia. Correspondence on JA's visit to Jedda [Jiddah], with correspondents including: Prince Feisal; Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (2).
1 file. |
Dec 1943-Jan 1944 |
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11
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The Jews: miscellaneous. Correspondence with representatives of various Zionist groups.
1 file. |
Jun 1945-Jul 1945 |
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12
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"Ian's Schemes". Correspondence with individuals including Antonio Pastor on trade with Spain, Turkey and Greece.
1 file. |
Jan 1945-May 1946 |
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13
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Visit to Spain. Bills etc and correspondence with individuals including Antonio Pastor and the 17th Duke of Alba, Spanish Ambassador to Britain, on JA's visit [to try and establish John Amery's Spanish citizenship].
1 file. |
Aug 1945-Dec 1947 |
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14
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Visit to Baveno, Italy. Bills, correspondence etc on JA's visit.
1 file. |
Jul 1946-Dec 1946 |
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15
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Visit to United States: pamphlets and letters of introduction. Papers and correspondence from JA's tour of the United States.
1 file. |
Oct 1946-Jan 1947 |
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16
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Visit to United States: diary. Diary and other papers from JA's tour of the United States.
1 file. |
Dec 1946-Apr 1947 |
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17
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Visit to United States: correspondence. Correspondence from JA's tour of the United States, with correspondents including James Burnham.
1 file. |
Jan 1947-Jul 1947 |
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18
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Politics: economics. Letters of thanks from JA on being sent various economic reports.
1 file. |
Dec 1947-Jan 1948 |
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19
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Movement for World Federal Government. Papers from the first international congress of the World Movement for World Federal Government, and later bulletins, also including bulletins from the United States Information Service on the European Recovery Programme and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and papers on the United Europe Movement and the Marshall Plan.
1 file. |
Aug 1947-Dec 1948 |
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20
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Bulgaria. Papers and correspondence on Bulgaria, particularly correspondence with George Dimitrov, Secretary General of the Bulgarian National Agrarian Union and International Peasant Union, also including a letter from Winston Churchill, apologising for not being able to meet Dimitrov. Also includes: papers from meetings of the International Peasant Union, with a speech by Dimitrov; text of an article by Dimitrov.
1 file. |
Aug 1947-Aug 1949 |
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21
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Turkish affairs. Papers and correspondence on Turkey, including correspondence with Turkish contacts and notes on the history of the Turko-Caucasian border, the Kurds and the Dardanelles Straits.
1 file. |
Jun 1945-May 1951 |
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22
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Empire Industries Association and British Empire League. Includes: minutes of meetings; monthly bulletins; pamphlets; correspondence; texts of speeches by Leo Amery, President of both the Association and the League, July 1948, and by JA, Mar 1948; memorandum by Leo Amery on future policy.
1 file. |
Feb 1947-Oct 1948 |
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23
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Empire Industries Association and British Empire League. Includes: text of speech by LSA, President of the Association and of the League; annual reports; minutes of meetings; monthly bulletins; pamphlets; correspondence with individuals including [George] Beresford Craddock, 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman and Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton].
1 file. |
Jun 1950-Dec 1952 |
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24
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Papers and correspondence on changes to GATT, mainly from the Empire Industries Association and British Empire League, relating to the protection of Commonwealth trade and Imperial Preference, particularly the Lancashire textile industry. Correspondents include: Alan Lennox-Boyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton] (2); Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams [European League of Economic Co-operation]; Leo Amery; Robert Boothby; [George] Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade; Henry Hopkinson, Secretary for Overseas Trade [later 1st Lord Colyton]; John Arbuthnot; Ronald Russell.
2 files. |
Apr 1952-Mar 1955 |
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25
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Annotated economic papers and cuttings on changes to GATT, mainly from the Empire Industries Association and British Empire League and the British Commonwealth Producers' Organisation, relating to the protection of Commonwealth trade and Imperial Preference.
4 files. |
Oct 1953-Sep 1955 |
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26
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Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Includes: agendas and minutes of meetings; commentaries on foreign affairs; correspondence with individuals including Sir Howard d'Egville, Secretary General of the Association; general council and executive committee reports; information on payments and privileges of Commonwealth members of Parliament.
2 files. |
Nov 1949-Nov 1953 |
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27
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Congress for Cultural Freedom. Papers and correspondence on the anti-Communist congress in Berlin, Germany, including text of a speech given by JA.
4 files. |
Jun 1950 |
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28
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Congress for Cultural Freedom. Minutes and other papers from and correspondence with the British Society for Cultural Freedom and British section of the International Movement for Cultural Freedom. Correspondents include: Stephen Spender, Chairman of the Society (3); Melvin Lasky; Peter Calvocoressi (2); Michael Goodwin, Secretary (6); Herbert Read; James Burnham.
1 file. |
Oct 1950-Mar 1952 |
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29
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Correspondence with Ursula Branston, Conservative Research Department. Subjects include: policy on Europe; China's ambitions in South East Asia; Greece and Turkey's claims for entering NATO; purges in Hungary; a suggestion that JA might broadcast for the Balkan sections of the BBC European Service.
1 file. |
Apr 1950-Dec 1952 |
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30
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Conservative Research Department reports. Subjects include: nationalisation in Czechoslovakia; the economic situation; defence aspects of Middle East and Russian oil; the failure of the groundnut scheme in East Africa; the Schuman Plan [for a European Coal and Steel Community]; the Colonial Development and Welfare Bill; the political position in the Gold Coast [later Ghana]; defence; foreign affairs, particularly atomic energy, relations between Germany and France and events in the Far East; colonial territories; China; trade with Canada; education, including denominational schools and the Burnham Committee; the Finance Bill; Malaya [later Malaysia]; political federation of the West Indies; Cyprus; the Gambia poultry scheme; industrial disorders at a mine in Enugu, Nigeria.
1 file. |
Apr 1950-Dec 1951 |
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31
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Miscellaneous political memoranda and white papers. Subjects include: the draft peace treaty with Japan; deportations from colonial areas; the Pacific Pact between the United States, Australia and New Zealand; Anglo-Egyptian conversations on defence of the Suez Canal [Egypt] and on the Sudan; the Albanian minority in Yugoslavia; nationalist guerilla forces in China; differences between the United States and Britain over supreme command of the Mediterranean; twentieth century revolutions; stability in the Middle East; the Colonial Development Corporation, and Colonial Office guests for the Festival of Britain; political trends in public opinion summaries; the new constitution in the Gold Coast [later Ghana]; oil supplies; British responsibilities in the Middle East (speech given by Leo Amery to the Anglo-Israel Association); agreements between Britain and Yugoslavia on trade and compensation for the nationalisation of British property; the Schuman Plan [for a European Coal and Steel Community]; the Havana Charter on trade; defence; the Soviet educational system; Burma [later Myanmar]; the National Peasants League, Albania; the British sugar refining industry; the Convention of North Atlantic Democracies; the political, economic and social development of the colonies; international colonial co-operation; communism in Yugoslavia; the removal of Greek children to communist countries; resistance movements in Greece and the Balkans; the implications of British arms policy in the Middle East; the development of Anglo-Israeli relations; the consolidated oil refineries at Haifa, Israel.
2 files. |
Jan 1950-Aug 1951 |
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32
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Refugees Defence Committee. Correspondence with Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, Vice-Chairman of the committee, on an article by JA about Greek children taken to communist countries and on speeches by Leo Amery and 1st Lord Layton on settling refugees in Commonwealth countries. . Also includes a proposal from the committee on solutions to the European refugee problem, and minutes of a committee meeting on a mission by American congressmen to report on the refugees in Germany, Austria and Italy.
1 file. |
Dec 1949-Jan 1950 |
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33
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Claim of the Basle Trading Company Limited against the Government. Printed volume, with covering letter to JA from Alan Lennox-Boyd [Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton] on the company's claim over the Government's sequestration of its business in India and the Gold Coast [later Ghana] during the First World War.
1 file. |
Sep 1950-Jan 1951 |
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34
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Army League. Memoranda and comments on defence, particularly writing a pamphlet on Cold War defence, but also on Army requirements, German attitudes to rearmament and mountain warfare, from contributors including: Leo Amery; Lieutenant General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell; Reginald Paget; Major-General H L Davis; Basil Liddell Hart; Lieutenant General Sir Francis Tuker; Major John Fuller.
1 file. |
Dec 1948-Jan 1951 |
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35
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Army League: printed papers and pamphlets. Defence estimates, Parliamentary publications and other published material on defence issues.
4 files. |
Jul 1946-Feb 1954 |
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36
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Army League. Notes from meetings, cuttings and memoranda on Cold War defence, including papers and comments by Leo Amery, Basil Liddell Hart and Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell on subjects including: a general policy for the Army; rearmament; a meeting with the Templer Committee on cuts to peace time establishments; the rearmament of Germany and Japan.
1 file. |
Jan 1951-Nov 1951 |
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37
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Army League. Papers and cuttings on Cold War defence, including: notes from League meetings; notes from Basil Liddell Hart on subjects including Soviet forces in Europe and impressions from a tour of Europe; letter from Leo Amery to the Times on the unprepared state of Western Europe; Conservative Research Department memoranda on defence, particularly on Defence White Papers.
1 file. |
Jan 1951-Jul 1954 |
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38
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Army League. Notes from meetings, cuttings and memoranda on defence, including papers and comments by Leo Amery, Basil Liddell Hart and Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker on subjects including:. new tactics for NATO; lessons from the Normandy campaign of 1944; a European Army; battles in North Africa.
1 file. |
Feb 1952-Dec 1952 |
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39
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Army League: report. Drafts of the report, "The Task of the British Army" [later entitled "The Army in the Nuclear Age"], with comments and minutes of a meeting on the report.
1 file. |
Jan 1952-Nov 1952 |
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40
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Army League. Minutes of meetings and papers, including: paper by JA on the Suez Canal Zone [Egypt], with notes from a discussion on the paper; comments by Sir Desmond Morton on an article by Basil Liddell Hart about Soviet military thinking; comments by Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker on the defence estimates; an African Army; the balance between arms and numbers of troops.
1 file. |
Mar 1953-Jun 1953 |
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41
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Army League: report. Drafts of the League report on defence [later entitled "The Army in the Nuclear Age"].
1 file. |
Apr 1953-c 1954 |
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42
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Army League: report. Drafts of the League report on defence [later entitled "The Army in the Nuclear Age"].
1 file. |
Jun 1954-Nov 1954 |
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43
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Army League: press cuttings. Press cuttings on defence in the nuclear era, including letters and articles from Basil Liddell Hart.
1 file. |
May 1954-Jan 1955 |
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44
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Army League. Papers and cuttings on Cold War defence, including: papers on atomic warfare; defence estimates; rough notes by Leo Amery; draft by JA for the League report, "Do we still need an Army?"; notes and correspondence on the draft report, with correspondents including Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Basil Liddell Hart, Reginald Paget, Major-General Laurence Grand, Lord Balfour of Inchrye, 1st Lord Hore-Belisha, Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell, Major-General Horace Birks, Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker, Sir Desmond Morton, Lieutenant-General Hugh Martin, Major-General Sir Percy Hobart; papers by Liddell Hart.
1 file. |
Nov 1954-Jul 1955 |
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45
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Army League: report. Drafts and proofs of the League report , including correspondence on the printing and publication of the report, galley proofs and the final corrected copy.
2 files. |
Jul 1955-Oct 1955 |
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46
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Army League: reports. Draft League report with slight annotations, also including copies of the original League report "A Policy for the Army" (1937) with associated press cuttings, "The Army in the Nuclear Age" (1955) and an issue of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's report on foreign affairs (1951).
1 file. |
Jul 1937-Nov 1955 |
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47
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Army League: accounts.
1 file. |
Jan 1951-Jan 1954 |
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48
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Army League: correspondence. General correspondence with JA as secretary of the League, mainly on distribution and writing of the League report ["The Army in the Nuclear Age"], and membership of the League, with correspondents including: Edward Beddington-Behrens (4); Fitzroy Maclean, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell (11); Woodrow Wyatt (2); Norman Gibbs [Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford]; Reginald Paget (5); Lord Balfour of Inchrye (3); Major-General Horace Birks (3); Lieutenant-General Hugh Martin (10); Antony Head, Secretary of State for War (7); Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (8); Major-General Laurence Grand (2); Major-General Sir Percy Hobart (5); Leslie Hore-Belisha; Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks; Basil Liddell Hart (26); Sir Desmond Morton (3); General Sir Frederick Pile (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker (11); 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Edward Grigg]; [Evelyn] John Strachey, Secretary of State for War (2); Major-General H L Davis (4); Major-General Sir Ian Jacob (2); General Sir [Alexander] Philip Christison; Sir Ronald Weeks, Chairman of Vickers Limited; Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman; Emanuel Shinwell, Minister of Defence; Field Marshal 1st Lord Alanbrooke (2); Major-General 2nd Lord Bridgeman, Vice-Chairman of the Army Cadet Force Association (4); Air Chief Marshal Sir Douglas Evill (4); Major-General John Fuller (8); 1st Lord Iliffe (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Morgan (4); Solly Zuckerman (5). Also includes: a report on the production and distribution of the League report, "The Army in the Nuclear Age", and on press reactions to it; comments on the report from Leo Amery; minutes of meetings.
4 files. |
Feb 1950-Dec 1955 |
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49
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Army League: correspondence. General correspondence with JA as chairman of the League on general business, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Hore-Belisha, President of the League (3); Edward Beddington-Behrens, Vice-President (5); [Alfred] Chester Beatty; Major-General Arthur Shortt; Antony Head, Secretary of State for War, writing to Beddington-Behrens on the future of the League; Brigadier-General James Jack; General Sir Gerald Templer, Chief of Imperial General Staff, writing to Beddington-Behrens; Basil Liddell Hart. Also includes: minutes of meetings; summary of speeches and reports from a meeting of the Western European Union Assembly on European defence, Oct 1956; Parliamentary defence statements.
1 file. |
Dec 1955-Feb 1957 |
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50
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Northern Rhodesia. Includes: speeches of welcome and programmes from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951; later papers and correspondence on Central African federation, particularly relating to Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia]; papers on the Rholanglo Group Bill, providing for the transfer of Rhodesian Anglo American Limited and associated companies, from Britain to Northern Rhodesia.
1 file; Fragile. |
Jun 1951-Jul 1954 |
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51
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Kenya. Papers and correspondence on Kenya, including: notes and letters on the political situation, the Emergency and rise of the Mau Mau; briefing material and programme for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.
1 file. |
Aug 1951-Feb 1954 |
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52
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Southern Rhodesia. Papers and correspondence on Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe], including: Capricorn Africa Society pamphlet on the case for federation; papers from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.
1 file. |
Jun 1951-Feb 1954 |
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53
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Nyasaland. Correspondence and notes from Archer Baldwin and William Coldrick on Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland [later Malawi], from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.
1 file. |
Aug 1951-Oct 1951 |
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54
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Mauritius. Papers from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951, including: programmes for the visit; report on Mauritian troops in Egypt and Cyrenaica [Libya]; despatch by Sir Hilary Blood, Governor of Mauritius, on constitutional affairs; open letters on the revision of the constitution; letters to JA from various interest groups, including the Muslim community; briefing material, mainly on the economic situation.
2 files. |
Apr 1951-Aug 1951 |
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55
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Publications on Mauritius. Economic papers from the Department of Co-operation, Mauritius, presented to JA during the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.
1 file. |
Aug 1951 |
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56
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Publications on Mauritius and Central Africa. Economic reports and memoranda on Mauritius and Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], presented to JA during the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.
1 file. |
Aug 1951 |
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57
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Mauritius: correspondence. Correspondence on Mauritian affairs, with correspondents including: Sir Hilary Blood, Governor of Mauritius; 2nd Lord Mancroft. Also includes: correspondence on individual cases referred by JA to Oliver Lyttelton [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Chandos]; a memorandum from the Movement for Mauritian Unity on the political and economic situation.
1 file. |
Jul 1951-May 1954 |
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58
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Tshekedi and Seretse. Papers and correspondence on Tshekedi Khama, Seretse Khama, and the leadership of the Bamangwato tribe, and the administration of the Bamangwato reserve, Bechuanaland [later Botswana]. Correspondents include: [Archibald] Fenner Brockway; Patrick Gordon Walker, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations; Alan Lennox-Boyd [Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton].
1 file. |
Jun 1951-Sep 1952 |
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59
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Uganda. Memoranda on the Uganda Development Corporation Limited.
1 file. |
Aug 1952-Dec 1952 |
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60
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Capricorn Africa Society. Correspondence with [Archibald] David Stirling [President of the society] with accompanying papers, including an address by Leo Amery in tribute to Cecil Rhodes, a copy of the Capricorn Declarations on principles and aims for East and Central Africa and papers on the declarations and resolutions of the Salisbury Convention on the future of Africa.
1 file. |
Jan 1952-Mar 1954 |
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61
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Africa. General papers and cuttings, chiefly on Central African Federation (mainly Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], and Nyasaland [later Malawi]), and also with some material on East African Federation (mainly Kenya and Tanganyika [later Tanzania]), including papers from the Colonial Office, Capricorn Africa Society, Joint East and Central Africa Board and other organisations, and a report from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.
4 files. |
Jul 1951-Nov 1953 |
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62
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West Indies. Includes: Commonwealth Parliamentary Association papers, including the report of the Parliamentary delegation to the West Indies, British Guiana and British Honduras, 1953, and an address on the federation of the West Indies; correspondence with Peter Smithers on the formation of the West India committee and on the sugar market; Conservative Research Department papers.
1 file. |
Jan 1951-Mar 1953 |
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63
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Tobacco. Includes: Colonial Office note on the production possibilities for colonial tobacco; letter from Kenneth Goodenough, High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia, on projected tobacco production figures.
1 file. |
Jul 1952-Sep 1952 |
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64
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New Era of Emigration. Minutes and papers of the Migration Council and Council for a New Era of Emigration, on development and migration within the Commonwealth, including correspondence with Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, Vice-Chairman of the council.
1 file; Fragile. |
Mar 1950-Sep 1953 |
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65
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Miscellaneous memoranda. Includes: Conservative Research Department memorandum on the rise in the cost of living; memorandum by Leo Amery on the gold market; note on biography and history, by Basil Liddell Hart.
1 file. |
Jun 1952 |
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66
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Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference. Papers from the conference in Washington [United States], Oct 1953, on international technical and financial aid, particularly economic development in South and South East Asia.
1 file. |
Sep 1950-Oct 1953 |
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67
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"Fair Comment Limited". Papers and correspondence on JA becoming a director of Comment, the monthly magazine of the Federation of University Conservative and Unionist Associations, with correspondents including fellow-director, William Deedes, and Douglas Wilson and Anthony Berry, Editors.
1 file. |
Jan 1952-Aug 1952 |
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68
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Society of Authors. Correspondence, papers and minutes of the society, received by JA as a member of the management committee. Correspondents include Sir Osbert Sitwell, Chairman, [Mary] Elizabeth Barber, Editor of The Author (3) and Denys Kilham-Roberts, Secretary-General.
1 file. |
Jun 1952-Jul 1954 |
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69
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Middle East. Draft manuscript on JA's experience of the Middle East (particularly relating to Iran and the Suez Canal, Egypt), with extracts from Hansard giving JA's various speeches on the Middle East.
1 file. |
1950-Feb 1957 |
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70
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Suez Canal: Domvile and Khairy correspondence. Correspondence with the former Intelligence officer Patrick Domvile and his friend Semira Khairy, on the situation in Egypt and the Arab world in general, including a proposed military coup by Egyptian Army and Air Force officers. Other correspondents include Sir [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon].
2 files. |
Dec 1951-Aug 1954 |
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71
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Suez Canal stand: correspondence (1). Correspondence on the stand taken by the Suez Canal Emergency Committee in Parliament over the withdrawal of British troops from the Canal Zone, with correspondents including: Leo Amery (5); Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, Acting Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph; 1st Lord Hore-Belisha on changing tactics and finding an alternative to the Canal (2); 1st Lord Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson] (8); Edward Martell, Editor of the Recorder; 1st Lord Hankey on subjects including the threat from the United States (8); John Selwyn-Lloyd [Minister of State, Foreign Office]; Cyril Lord (2); Charles Waterhouse (9); Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale]; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, BBC board of governors, on a BBC broadcast about Suez; [Edward] Lancelot Mallalieu; Christopher Holland-Martin (2); Sir Douglas Savory (2); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe] (2); John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Research Department; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain, enclosing the text of his speech to the Anglo-Israeli Club on the Middle East; [John] Enoch Powell (3); Sir Robert Boothby; Sir [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including Patrick Domvile (2); Major-General Laurence Grand (2); John Morrison [later 1st Lord Margadale] (2); Anthony Fell; Lord Hinchingbrooke; Alan Gomme-Duncan; Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell (3); 1st Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope; 1st Lord Vansittart; Robert Ryder; 3rd Lord Cromer [earlier Lord Errington]; Donald Anderson; Ian Horobin; 2nd Lord Hailsham [later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; [George] Beresford Craddock; 1st Lord Bruce of Melbourne; 1st Lord Simon; Sir Guy Lloyd (2); [Arthur] Douglas Dodds-Parker (2); 1st Lord Rotherwick [earlier Herbert Cayzer]; [Edward] Henry Legge-Bourke; 2nd Lord Rennell [earlier Francis Rodd]; Colin Coote [Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph]; Charles Mott-Radclyffe; Tufton Beamish [later Lord Chelwood] (2); Dermot Morrah, Editor of the Round Table; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier William Max Aitken]; 2nd Lord Birkenhead [earlier Lord Furneaux]; Field Marshal Sir William Slim; [Arthur] Vere Harvey; Sir Walter Smart (2). . Also includes notes for Leo Amery on setting up the Emergency Committee.
2 files. |
Mar 1950-Sep 1953 |
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72
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Suez Canal stand: correspondence (2). Correspondence on the stand taken by the Suez Canal Emergency Committee in Parliament over the withdrawal of British troops from the Canal Zone, with correspondents including: Victor Weisz ["Vicky"], News Chronicle cartoonist; David Low, Manchester Guardian cartoonist (2); Cevat Acikalin [former Turkish Ambassador to Britain]; Donald Anderson; Jacques Bardoux; 2nd Lord Barnby; Arthur Bateman; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier William Max Aitken]; Leslie Hore-Belisha; Sir Iltyd Clayton; Sir Kinahan Cornwallis; Somerset de Chair; Leo d'Erlanger; [Arthur] Douglas Dodds-Parker; Patrick Domvile (2); Cyril Durnford; Geoffrey Finsberg; [William] Gordon Fallows; 1st Lord Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson]; Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell (2); Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale]; Sir Simon Marks; Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia; [William] David Ormsby-Gore [later 5th Lord Harlech]; [Isaac] James Pitman; [John] Enoch Powell; Redvers Prior; Viscountess Rhondda, Editor of Time and Tide; Sir Norman Seddon-Brown (2); Marcus Sieff; 1st Lord Simon; Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, Acting Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph; 1st Lord Vansittart (3); 2nd Lord Wavell (2); Rowland Winn [later 4th Lord St Oswald]; 1st Lord Winster (2). Also includes: list of potential committee members.
2 files. |
Nov 1953-Aug 1954 |
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73
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Suez Canal. Papers and press cuttings on the situation in Egypt, including: issues of Hansard; memorandum by 1st Lord Hankey on his concerns about talks between the British and Egyptian governments, particularly the lack of provision for protecting British interests and the planned evacuation of all British troops; rough notes for a debate on the issue, including drafts of JA's statement urging the Government not to evacuate the Canal Zone; memorandum on Suez written by JA for the Army League, with comments from Leo Amery; Conservative Research Department notes.
2 files. |
Feb 1953-Jan 1954 |
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74
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Suez Canal: miscellaneous. Includes: notes of forthcoming meetings of the Suez Canal Emergency Committee from Charles Waterhouse; cuttings of letters to the Times from the Suez group; notes by JA for a letter to [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]; note from Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [Chief Whip, later 1st Lord Hailes] on the Egyptian debate; script by JA for a BBC broadcast on Suez, with an example of a previous script by Patrick Gordon Walker on Arab unity; issues of Hansard; memorandum from Sir Murdoch MacDonald proposing a settlement with Egypt; notes by 1st Lord Hankey on events during the Parliamentary recess, Dec 1953-Jan 1954.
1 file. |
May 1953-Jul 1954 |
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75
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Suez Canal. Press cuttings of an article by JA on keeping British forces in Suez, and a memorandum on the Canal Zone [Egypt], particularly the security of the Canal, the maintenance of the Canal base and the location of Britain's strategic reserve in the Middle East.
1 file. |
Dec 1953 |
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76
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Suez Canal: circulated extracts and correspondence. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Vansittart, on JA's article on Suez for Time and Tide, Communism in Egypt and concerns about the attitude of the British Ambassador to Egypt [Sir Ralph Stevenson] (4); 1st Lord Hankey, on the Time and Tide article, supporting the Suez group in the House of Lords and his surprise at the Government's attitude (4); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe] (3); 1st Lord Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson] (3); 2nd Lord Rennell (3); Sir Guy Lloyd (5); Lord Hinchingbrooke on the views of the Suez group and the instability of the Egyptian regime (2); Sir [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]; Charles Waterhouse; Sir Ronald Storrs. . Also includes extracts from papers sent to JA and circulated to the Suez group on subjects including: Communist activities in Egypt; the political situation in Egypt; the situation in the Sudan; low morale among the British in Cairo; German experts working with the Egyptian Army; principal events during the Parliamentary Recess, Dec 1953-Jan 1954.
1 file. |
Jan 1954-Jul 1954 |
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77
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Suez Canal. Press cuttings, notes, issues of Hansard and correspondence with individuals including 1st Lord Vansittart and 2nd Lord Rennell on the Suez debate in the House of Lords and House of Commons and the agreement between Britain and Egypt on the future of the Canal Zone.
1 file. |
Nov 1953-Aug 1954 |
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78
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Suez Canal: correspondence. Correspondence on the defeat of the Suez group in the House of Commons Egyptian debate, with individuals including: Patrick Domvile (4); Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale] (2); 1st Lord Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson]; Charles Waterhouse; 1st Lord Vansittart; Jacques Bardoux (2); Viscountess Rhondda, Editor of Time and Tide; 1st Lord Hankey; [Luke] William Teeling; Sir Guy Lloyd; F A Voigt.
1 file. |
Jun 1954-Sep 1954 |
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79
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Sudan. Papers and correspondence on British policy on the Sudan, including: notes from Sir Sayid Abdel Rahman Pasha El Mahdi on the constitutional position in the Sudan, particularly on Egyptian interference; correspondence with Charles Ponsonby; issues of Hansard; prints of Parliamentary papers on the agreement between Britain and Egypt over the self-government and self-determination of the Sudan; speech notes; memoranda from the public relations consultant to the Sudanese Government in London on the electoral campaign for the Sudan's first self-governing Parliament; note by [Arthur] Douglas Dodds-Parker on the future of the Sudan; minutes of the Conservative Parliamentary defence committee on implications for the Canal Zone [Egypt] and the Middle East.
1 file. |
Feb 1953-Jul 1954 |
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80
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Suez Canal: Hansard and Parliamentary prints.
1 file. |
Mar 1953-Oct 1954 |
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81
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Suez Canal. Papers and correspondence on the Suez Crisis, with correspondents including: John Biggs-Davison; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, Secretary of the United Europe Movement (2); Sir Ian Horobin; Charles Waterhouse; Sir [Edward] Louis Spears; 1st Lord Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson]; 2nd Lord Barnby; William Rees-Davies. Also includes: draft speech notes and draft letter to the Times by JA; notes on Communism in Egypt; published papers from the Suez Canal Company; papers on Egyptian aggression against Israel, sent by Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain; paper on the Nile waters question.
2 files. |
1956-Jan 1957 |
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82
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Map of Port Said and the Suez Canal.
1 file. |
c 1950-c 1956 |
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83
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Libya: photocopy of Treaty of Friendship and Alliance.
1 file. |
Jul 1953 |
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84
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House of Commons: general papers and correspondence. Includes: correspondence with various Parliamentary officials on House of Commons business, with correspondents including Robert Jenkins, Michael Ryle, Clerk to the Committee of Selection (2), Gordon Touche and Hugh Fraser (2); texts of questions asked in Parliament by JA; notes on various committees, including the Imperial Affairs Committee; notes passed to JA during a [?] foreign affairs debate, including one from [Leonard] Robert Carr.
1 file. |
Mar 1950-May 1954 |
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85
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The Far Eastern Prisoners of War Claim. Papers and correspondence with the FEPOW Organisation, on a compensation claim made against Japan, as part of the Japanese peace treaty being debated in Parliament, including a petition sent to MPs by former prisoners of war, their next of kin, and electors from JA's constituency.
1 file. |
Jan 1951-Nov 1951 |
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86
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Memoranda for Harold Macmillan. Memoranda written by JA for [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Minister of Housing and Local Government [later 1st Lord Stockton], with accompanying papers and correspondence between JA, Macmillan (3), Leo Amery and Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams (3) and Edward Beddington-Behrens, Secretary and Chairman of the European League for Economic Co-operation, on the balance of payments position, the purposes of the Soviet Union, the economic crisis, co-operation between the sterling area and Europe and the future of Europe.
1 file. |
Jan 1952-May 1953 |
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87
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Empire Economics. Papers and memoranda, including: Conservative Commonwealth Affairs Committee memorandum on the Colonial Development Corporation; Conservative Political Centre pamphlet on the sterling area; text of an address by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross on sterling, exchange control and convertibility; cuttings from the Economist; note from John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Research Department, on Australian import duties; reprint of an article by Leo Amery on Canada and the sterling area; rough notes by Leo Amery; papers from a European League for Economic Co-operation monetary conference, 1952; memorandum sent by JA to [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Minister of Housing and Local Government [later 1st Lord Stockton], on the case against deflation as a means of strengthening sterling; proposals for compulsory savings and investment; minutes of meetings of the Empire Economic Union, 1950-51.
1 file. |
May 1950-Mar 1953 |
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88
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Albania. Correspondence on Albanian affairs, particularly the National Committee for Free Albania and the Albanian Refugee Committee, with correspondents including: John Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of State, Foreign Office (2); [Robert] Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary [later 1st Lord Avon].
1 file. |
May 1949-Jul 1954 |
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89
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Colonial Army. Notes and correspondence on strengthening British forces by forming an army recruited from Africa, including: the report of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951; notes on Parliamentary debates on colonial resources for defence; correspondence with Antony Head, Secretary of State for War, on the use of colonial manpower; Army League paper on an African Army; Conservative Research Department memorandum on colonial manpower.
1 file. |
Aug 1951-Jul 1953 |
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90
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European Army. English and French papers and correspondence on the European Defence Community, German rearmament and the European Army.
1 file. |
Feb 1951-Oct 1953 |
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91
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Copper. Notes on saving dollars on copper, particularly relating to copper production in Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], written by JA for [Arthur] Christopher Soames [Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill].
1 file. |
Aug 1952 |
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92
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Germany, Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft. Papers and correspondence on an Anglo-German conference organised by Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft, and a set of extracts from the German press, on defence and political issues.
1 file. |
Feb 1952-Jul 1953 |
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93
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Persia. Correspondence and papers on Persia [later Iran], with correspondents including: 2nd Lord Birdwood; [William] David Ormsby-Gore [later 5th Lord Harlech]; Prince Hamid Mirza on the political situation; John Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of State, Foreign Office; Ahmad Qavam-es-Sultaneh, former Prime Minister of Iran; [Christopher] Montague Woodhouse [later 5th Lord Terrington], British Embassy, Tehran; [Reginald] James Bowker, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office; [Robert] Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary [later 1st Lord Avon]. . Also includes: papers on the nationalisation of the Persian oil industry; account of a meeting between JA, Ahmad Qavam-es-Sultaneh and Prince Hamid, on the political situation; briefing note for a debate on the Middle East.
1 file. |
Jun 1951-May 1954 |
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94
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East European Movement. Papers of the Central and Eastern Europe Commission, also including some correspondence with individuals including: Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine], Chairman of the Commission (4); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] on the Foreign Office decision to stop supporting the Commission; Judith, Lady Listowel.
1 file. |
Jan 1953-Jul 1954 |
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95
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Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Coronation luncheon programme.
1 file. |
May 1953 |
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96
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Order of service for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Includes the order of ceremony, invitation and tickets.
1 file. |
Jun 1953 |
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97
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Conservative Research Department: reports. Subjects include: old age pensions; the Transport Bill; the convertibility of sterling; foreign affairs, particularly Germany, the Soviet Union and Korea; the Colonial Development Corporation; the political situation in Nigeria; the Economic Survey, 1953; housing; the Finance Bill, 1952; the Empire Settlement Bill, 1952; the Government's first six months in office.
1 file. |
Apr 1952-Jul 1954 |
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98
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Conservative Commonwealth Council. Papers on the work of the council.
1 file. |
Apr 1953-Jul 1953 |
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99
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Correspondence with Conservative Central Office. Memoranda and correspondence, particularly on publicity, with individuals including Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes], James Thomas, Conservative Vice-Chairman [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] and Stephen Pierssené, President of the Conservative and Unionist Agents' Benevolent Association.
1 file. |
Mar 1950-Jul 1954 |
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100
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"Change is our Ally". Conservative Political Centre pamphlet from the One Nation group of MPs, on Conservative industrial policy, with some annotations.
1 file. |
1954 |
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101
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Correspondence with Yap Pheng Geck. Correspondence with Yap Pheng Geck, Vice President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, on the ban against non-English speaking residents of Singapore being eligible for election to the Legislative Assembly.
1 file. |
1954-Dec 1954 |
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102
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Meeting with Jacques Bloch-Morhange. Notes and memoranda from JA to [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] on JA's meeting with Bloch-Morhange on the views of a group of French politicians on the partition and disarmament of Germany.
1 file. |
Apr 1955-May 1955 |
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103
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Commonwealth and Empire. Papers and correspondence on Commonwealth affairs, including: Colonial Office memoranda from Sir William McLean on subjects including colonial constitutional changes and development, Imperial Preference, labour relations and local government; draft memorandum from [Arthur] Douglas Dodds-Parker on Commonwealth and colonial policy; text of a speech by Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs [later 1st Lord Chandos] at the 1952 Party Conference on migration policy and Imperial Preference; article by Leo Amery on the Commonwealth Conference, 1951; memoranda by JA on Asiatic expansion and the implications for Australasia, and on migration; papers on trade with Canada.
1 file. |
Feb 1949-Jan 1954 |
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104
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Africa. Correspondence, mainly on federation for Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] and Kenya and also on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951, with correspondents including: Ernest Vasey [Minister for Finance and Development, Kenya]; Henry Hopkinson, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs [later 1st Lord Colyton]; Sir Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia [later 1st Lord Malvern] on subjects including the results of a referendum on federation with Nyasaland [later Malawi] (4); [Roland] Roy Welensky on federation and the situation in Southern Rhodesia (7); Michael Blundell, leader of the European Elected Members Organisation, Kenya, on subjects including interference in Kenyan affairs by [Archibald] Fenner Brockway [member of an unofficial fact-finding mission to Kenya], measures against the Mau Mau and federation (6); Leonard Bean; Walter Bell [East African High Commission, Kenya]; Sir Philip Mitchell, Governor of Kenya; Sir Gilbert Rennie, Governor of Northern Rhodesia; Sir Alfred Vincent; Sir Archibald James; Archer Baldwin; Stanley Evans (2); William Coldrick; 9th Lord de la Warr; Sir [Thomas] Ellis Robins, President of the British South Africa Company, writing to de la Warr on JA's visit; Woodrow Wyatt, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, War Office.
1 file. |
Jul 1951-Nov 1953 |
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105
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Cotton. Papers and cuttings on the Anglo-Japanese Trade Agreement and the effect on the Lancashire cotton trade.
1 file. |
Jul 1952-Dec 1954 |
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106
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Colonial Office: lists of documents and miscellaneous colonies. Memoranda on colonial social development and education sent to JA by Sir William McLean, Colonial Office information department.
1 file. |
Feb 1954-May 1954 |
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107
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Far Eastern countries. General correspondence on Indo-China and Japan, with correspondents including: Derick Heathcoat-Amory, Minister of State, Board of Trade and Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade on a proposed meeting with the director of the Japanese newspaper Nippon Keizai; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]. Also includes drafts of a letter from JA to the Times on supporting the French in Indo-China.
1 file. |
May 1954-Aug 1954 |
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108
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Cyprus. Papers and correspondence on Cyprus, including: correspondence with Henry Hopkinson [Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, later 1st Lord Colyton] (2), Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale] and Frederic Bennett; papers by Leo Amery on a settlement for Cyprus; note on the Cypriot-Turkish point of view; note from the Conservative Commonwealth Council; summary note by Patrick Maitland.
1 file. |
Jun 1954-Aug 1955 |
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109
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Russia. Includes: correspondence on a proposed Parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union in 1955, with correspondents including John Hall and John Tilney; memorandum on the Russian problem and the balance of power by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; memorandum by Charles Mott-Radclyffe on a visit to the Soviet Union by a British Parliamentary delegation in October 1954.
1 file. |
May 1953-Feb 1955 |
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110
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Visit to Rhodesia, South Africa and Egypt. Notebooks with diary of JA's visit to Northern and Southern Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], South Africa and Egypt, also including an incomplete typed version, a summary of the visit, and letters of thanks, with correspondents including William Aitken.
1 file. |
Dec 1954-Feb 1955 |
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111
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South Africa tour. Correspondence on JA's visit to Northern and Southern Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], South Africa and Egypt, Jan 1955, with correspondents including: Leo Amery (2); Sir Ralph Stevenson [British Ambassador to Egypt]; Sir John Le Rougetel, British High Commissioner in South Africa. Also includes: a press photograph of Leo Amery; note on the Bechuanaland Protectorate [later Botswana] in relation to a possible South African republic; details of the British South Africa Company's various estates; report on the Rhokana and Nchanga copper mines in Northern Rhodesia.
1 file. |
Dec 1954-Oct 1956 |
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112
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Pamphlets. Includes: Daily Mirror booklet on defence; Empire Industries Association and Empire League bulletin; British Road Federation bulletin; booklet on the Canadian money market; newspaper of the Rhokana African Townships; Conservative Research Department notes on higher pensions and benefits and Labour Party blues; Conservative Political Centre journal; survey of Commonwealth and colonial affairs.
2 files. |
Feb 1954-Feb 1955 |
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113
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Nobel Institute Conference on Western Democracies and World Problems. Papers and correspondence from the conference, Oslo, Norway, 13-21 June, which JA attended as part of the delegation from the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Includes rough speech notes by JA on East-West relations, particularly relating to Germany and the Soviet Union.
1 file. |
Feb 1955-Aug 1955 |
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114
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Malta Round Table Conference. Papers and correspondence on the conference on Malta's economic and constitutional affairs, including: correspondence with [Robert] Anthony Eden, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Avon] on the conference's terms of reference; proposals from Maltese political parties presented at the conference; extract from [? JA's] diary, Jan 1954, on meeting [Dominic] Dom Mintoff [leader of the Malta Labour Party] and also a conversation with Winston Churchill, Prime Minister about "Lawrence of Arabia" [T E Lawrence, earlier T E Shaw], Napoleon, Churchill's book "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" and Churchill's views on Cyprus and Egypt.
1 file. |
1951-Mar 1961 |
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115
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Malta: papers. Papers on Malta's economic and constitutional affairs, including papers from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.
1 file. |
Jun 1948-Feb 1954 |
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116
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Malta: correspondence. Correspondence on Maltese affairs, with correspondents including: [Dominic] Dom Mintoff, leader of the Malta Labour Party (2); Henry Hopkinson [Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, later 1st Lord Colyton] (2); Mabel Strickland [Leader of the Progressive Constitutional Party] (4); Sir David Campbell, Lieutenant-Governor of Malta; Archer Baldwin (2); Stanley Evans (3); William Coldrick.
1 file. |
Aug 1951-Jul 1954 |
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117
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Industrial Co-partnership Association. Includes: association pamphlets; correspondence on profit-sharing schemes and employee representation in industry, with representatives of the British Gas Staff Association and the cotton industry from JA's Preston constituency, Lancashire, and other correspondents including Geoffrey Lloyd, Minister of Fuel and Power and John Biggs-Davison (2).
1 file. |
Jan 1949-Jul 1955 |
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118
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Empire Industries Association. Correspondence, minutes and papers of the Association, particularly on GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Correspondents include Hugh Fraser (3); Sir [Henry] Victor Raikes; Peter Smithers; Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Association.
1 file. |
Oct 1950-Jan 1957 |
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119
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Select Committee on Broadcasting. Minutes and papers of the committee relating to "the Fortnight Rule", when the BBC would not broadcast ministerial statements on a political issue less than a fortnight before the issue was debated in Parliament. Also includes a few papers of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
1 file. |
Feb 1956-Apr 1956 |
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120
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Teachers Superannuation Bill. Correspondence with teachers and representatives of teachers' unions from JA's Preston constituency, Lancashire, protesting against increases in their pension contributions. Other correspondents include Sir David Eccles, Minister of Education.
1 file. |
Nov 1955-May 1956 |
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121
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Parliamentary and Industrial Committee. Note on a deputation from the committee to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the need for more expansion and investment in the economy, and underlying faults in the financial system.
1 file. |
Mar 1956 |
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122
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Parliamentary and Industrial Committee of the Economic Research Council. Includes: memorandum by Charles Hill, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on the work of the Government information services; list of tax changes under the Conservatives; reports of meetings of the Parliamentary and Industrial Committee of the Economic Research Council.
1 file. |
May 1956-Aug 1958 |
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123
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Malta. Papers on a referendum on the future of Malta, including: report from a general survey of Malta's economic situation, particularly on aid which Britain could provide for Malta; report on the Malta Round Table Conference, 1955; text of statement by the Maltese Prime Minister [Dominic "Dom" Mintoff] on the breakdown of negotiations with the British Government on their contribution to Maltese finances; correspondence with Thomas Balogh on Malta's future (4).
1 file. |
Nov 1938-Jun 1956 |
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124
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Cyprus. Various papers on Cyprus, including: copy of the Cyprus Bill, 1960; survey of the Cyprus question from the Turkish side; statement of policy, 1958; Council of Europe study on recent Cypriot history; notes for British servicemen on why they were in Cyprus; statement by JA on Cyprus, 1956; collected letters to the press; report from Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale] on a visit to Cyprus and Greece, 1955.
2 files. |
Oct 1955-Jul 1960 |
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125
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Visit to Algeria. Papers on the British Parliamentary delegation to Algeria, including programmes for the visit and papers on the political and administrative situation and the development of Algeria, including the supply of British arms to Algerian rebels.
2 files. |
Oct 1956 |
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126
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Maps of Algeria.
1 file. |
Oct 1956 |
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127
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General political papers. Includes: account of a discussion on Empire problems; texts of speeches by Leo Amery on subjects including the Commonwealth and post-war reconstruction, 1942-43; note on policy in the Arabian peninsula; paper on family allowances in industry; Council of Europe papers on establishment of a common market and European organisation in nuclear energy; notes on taxation; papers on the definition of Overseas Trade Corporations; minutes and papers of the Conservative Advisory Committee on Policy, including papers on Labour restrictive practices and the mechanism of monetary policy.
1 file. |
Mar 1942-Aug 1956 |
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128
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Hungary. Brief correspondence on the formation of the Hungarian Revolutionary Council.
1 file. |
Dec 1956-Jan 1957 |
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129
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Dominion Students Hall Trust (London House). General papers and correspondence on the Trust (of which JA was a governor).
1 file. |
Nov 1955-Oct 1956 |
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130
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Expanding Commonwealth Group. General papers and correspondence on the group, particularly relating to trade and economic issues, including: group pamphlets; minutes of meetings; memoranda circulated to ministers, Commonwealth prime ministers, High Commissioners etc; collected speeches and articles, 1917-57; summaries of group discussions; draft of the group publication, "The Third Interest".
3 files. |
Jan 1956-Apr 1958 |
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131
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Defence. Papers mainly relating to the Conservative Party's Defence Policy Committee, including: note from JA to the Minister of Defence [Duncan Sandys] passing on a message from the French Minister of Defence, Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, on Britain joining Franco-German defence plans; notes by Basil Liddell-Hart on the Defence White Paper, Apr 1957, and relations between the various defence branches; notes on the committee's terms of reference, on manpower and funding; memorandum on the closer integration of the services; correspondence with R A Butler, Chairman of the Conservative Research Department, on JA joining the committee; Conservative Research Department papers on manpower and National Service.
1 file. |
Jun 1956-Apr 1957 |
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132
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Correspondence on NHS pay settlement. Letters from National Health Service employees in JA's Preston constituency, Lancashire, on the Minister of Health's refusal to grant their pay settlement. Includes a memorandum from Derek Walker-Smith, Minister of Health [later Lord Broxbourne] on the pay settlement.
1 file. |
Nov 1957 |
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133
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Ahmet Allamani. Correspondence on Ahmet Allamani's application for residence in Britain (Allamani's family had helped British Missions to Albania in the Second World War). Correspondents include Peter Thomas and Richard Wood [later Lord Holderness], Parliamentary Secretaries, Ministry of Labour.
1 file. |
Dec 1958-Dec 1960 |
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134
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Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Includes: agendas and minutes of meetings; memorandum on the Winterbottom Plan on visits by MPs to Commonwealth and colonial countries; commentaries on foreign affairs; papers on the delegation to the West Indies, 1955; annual reports.
1 file. |
1949-Dec 1957 |
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135
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Le Monde Bilingue. Papers and correspondence on the twinning movement, and a conference of educationists, on teaching French-English bilingualism.
1 file. |
Nov 1955-Apr 1956 |
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136
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BOMA (British Overseas Mining Association). Papers and correspondence with BOMA on amending the law to make overseas mining associations into overseas trade corporations for tax reasons.
1 file. |
Jan 1956-Jun 1956 |
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137
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Middle East. Includes: note of JA's visit to King Zog of Albania, 1956 and on Zog's part in a plan to overthrow the Egyptian Government, and of a talk about the plan with John Selwyn Lloyd [Foreign Secretary]; notes by JA on propaganda policy in the Middle East and the general political situation there; draft memoranda on Soviet influence in the Middle East and maintaining British influence abroad, particularly in Cyprus, Aden [Adan] and Hong Kong; proposals for the re-establishment of British influence in the Middle East; briefing paper on the Yemen.
1 file. |
Jan 1956-Jul 1958 |
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