The Papers of Julian Amery

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.