Janus: The Papers of Julian Amery

Churchill/AMEJ 1 contains:
1	Spain, the Balkans and the Second World War
2	General political
3	United Europe
4	War Office
5	Colonial Office
6	Air Ministry and Ministry of Aviation
7	General political
8	Department of the Environment
9	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
10	General political

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The Papers of Julian Amery

Title	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Reference	AMEJ 1/9
Covering Dates	1971–1974 (The majority of files date from 1972-74.)
Extent and Medium	6.5 archive boxes

Content and context

JA's papers as Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including personal correspondence, minutes on foreign affairs and JA's visits abroad.

Index Terms

Foreign Policy

Foreign Office

Churchill/AMEJ 1/9 contains:

Letters of congratulation received on being appointed Minister of State. Correspondents include: 6th Lord Carrington, Secretary of State for Defence; Sir [John] Gilbert Laithwaite; Ian Harvey; Sir Henry Chisholm, Chairman of Corby Development Corporation; Sir Francis Pearson, Chairman of Central Lancashire Development Corporation (2); Sir Charles Johnston; George Young; 11th Duke of Grafton [earlier Lord Euston]; Michael Clark, Managing Director of the Plessey Company Limited; Jonathan Guinness [later 3rd Lord Moyne]; Sir Edmund Hudleston; Dame [Margaret] Patricia Hornsby-Smith; Robert Peliza; Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe; Adrian FitzGerald, editor of Monday World; Sir Frank Marshall, Chairman of the Association of Municipal Corporations; Lord Simon of Glaisdale; Alan Hare, Managing Director of the Financial Times; Lord Boyd-Carpenter; Vere Harmsworth [later 3rd Lord Rothermere]; Professor Henry [Heinz] Koeppler, Warden of Wilton Park; Sir Edward Thompson, Chairman of Redditch Development Corporation; Evelyn Denington, Chairman of Stevenage Development Corporation; Lord Bourne; Sir Frederick Crawford; Martin Biddle, Chairman of Rescue; John Tilney; Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Cheshire, Vice-Chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Lord Mowbray and Stourton, spokesman for the Department of the Environment; Sir Tufton Beamish [later Lord Chelwood]; Norman St John-Stevas [later Lord St John of Fawsley]; Douglas Fairbanks; Sir Arnold Silverstone [later Lord Ashdown]; William Rees-Davies; 1st Lord Gladwyn [earlier (Hubert) Gladwyn Jebb]; Jacques de Beaumarchais, French Ambassador to Britain; Sir Harry Brittain; [Henry] Chapman Pincher; Douglas Bader; Rohan Butler; Hugh Fraser; Anthony Fell; Michael Latham, Director of the House-Builders Federation; Reginald Eyre; Sir [Leslie] Hugh Wilson; Henry James [Director of Information, Department of the Environment]; Sir [Arthur] Desmond Plummer, leader of the Greater London Council; Michael Comay, Israeli Ambassador to Britain; Lord Greenwood of Rossendale, Chairman of the Local Government Staff Commission; Rene Massigli; Edgar Beck, Chairman of John Mowlem and Company Limited.
1 file.

Nov 1972-Dec 1972

Minister's office: personal correspondence: index.
1 file.

Nov 1972-Feb 1974

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: [Henry] Paul Channon, Minister for Housing and Construction [later Lord Kelvedon] on cleaning Government buildings; William Chalmers, Director-General of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; William van Straubenzee, Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office; Yigal Allon, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, congratulating JA on his appointment; Lord Peddie, Chairman of the Agrément Board; Cranley Onslow, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Aerospace and Shipping, inviting JA on a demonstration flight on Concorde; Sir Frederick Corfield, Minister of Aerospace, on the Concorde flight; Robert Armstrong [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]; 1st Lord Avon [earlier (Robert) Anthony Eden] on forced marriages in Zanzibar [Tanzania]; Sir [Walter] Thomas Monnington, President of the Royal Academy of Arts; George Price, Premier of Honduras; Sir Idwal Pugh, Permanent Secretary, Department of the Environment; Dame Flora Robson on whether 2nd Lord Churchill might receive a pension from the Civil List; Raimondo Manzini, Italian Ambassador to Britain; [Harford] Montgomery Hyde on his forthcoming visit to Australia and his biography of Stanley Baldwin; Kamal Rifaat, Egyptian Ambassador to Britain; Sir Fitzroy Maclean; Sir [Luke] William Teeling; Mohamed Mahdi Al-Taijir, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Britain; Jack Warren, High Commissioner for Canada. Also includes: minutes from a Department of the Environment conference on environmental improvement.
1 file.

Nov 1971-Dec 1972

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Jocelyn Hambro; Peter Blaker; Khalifa Ben Hamad Althani, Emir of Qatar; Sir Frederick Mason, Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Eva, Lady Reading [President of the British Section, World Jewish Congress], asking JA to address the European Conference of Jewish Communities (2); Michael Fidler, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (3); Sir Michael Stewart, Director of the Ditchley Foundation, on a proposed conference for American senators and congressmen (2); Dobrivoje Vidic, Yugoslav Ambassador to Britain; Arthur Dickson, Judge of the Supreme Court, Anguilla; 2nd Lord Shepherd; Sir Alexander Glen; Andre Bettencourt, French Ministry of foreign affairs; 11th Lord Drogheda, Chairman of the Financial Times [earlier Lord Moore]; Michael Heseltine, Minister for Aerospace and Shipping on complaints from Bristow Helicopters about unfair competition in the Gulf; [?] Baron Geoffroy de Courcel. . Also includes: annual report of the Board of Deputies of British Jews; papers relating to Prince Bahaeddine Sami, including correspondence with Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone, Lord Chancellor [earlier Quintin Hogg] and Sir [Arthur] Eric Drake, Chairman of BP (British Petroleum Company Limited).
1 file.

Dec 1972-Jan 1974

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Mountbatten; Mark Carlisle, Minister of State, Home Office; John Brooke [later 2nd Lord Brookeborough]; Richard Brew, Chairman of the Greater London Council Environmental Planning Committee; Sir Con O'Neill; Jack Warren, High Commissioner for Canada; Lord Harvey of Prestbury; Sir [Arthur] Douglas Dodds-Parker; Francis Pym [Chief Whip]; Sir [William] John Peel; Dobrivoje Vidic, Yugoslav Ambassador to Britain (2); Sir Frank Roberts.
1 file.

Jan 1973-Mar 1973

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Gerald Thompson, Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Limited; Reginald Maudling; Tom King; Jacques de Beaumarchais, French Ambassador to Britain; Richard Wood, Minister for Overseas Development [later Lord Holderness]; 3rd Lord Windlesham, Minister of State, Home Office [earlier David Hennessy]; Duncan Duncan-Sandys on his recent visit to the Sudan, enclosing a note on giving financial assistance to the Sudanese; Khalifa Ben Hamad Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar; Sir Charles Dixon [former adviser to the Commonwealth Relations Office] advising opening personal talks with Ian Smith [Prime Minister of Rhodesia]; Anthony Royle, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [later Lord Fanshawe of Richmond]; Edward Heath, Prime Minister, on Catherine Amery going in to hospital; Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Foreign Secretary, earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel] on subjects including Catherine Amery going in to hospital (2); Sunthorn Hongladarom, Secretary-General of the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation.
1 file.

Feb 1973-May 1973

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Denis Healey; [Frederick] Robin Butler, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Ronald Scrivener [British Ambassador to Czechoslovakia]; Richard Wood, Minister for Overseas Development [later Lord Holderness]; Peter Marshall [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office]; Winston Churchill [Parliamentary Private Secretary to JA]; John Biggs-Davison; Sir Fitzroy Maclean; Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus; Michael Fidler, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews; Sir Arthur Galsworthy; Sir Olaf Caroe; Christopher Mayhew, Chairman of the National Association for Mental Health, on psychiatry in the Soviet Union; Mikhail Smirnovsky, Soviet Ambassador to Britain; Alexei Tupolev, thanking JA for his sympathy on the death of his father; Sir Clive Bossom, President of the Anglo-Belgian Union; [Henry] Heinz Koeppler, Warden of Wilton Park, enclosing a guide to the European Discussion Centre; Piers Dixon; Robert Armstrong [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister] on a leak of classified information about London motorway proposals. Also includes: notes for a BBC programme on the SOE agent "Christine Granville".
1 file.

Mar 1973-Apr 1973

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Mountbatten; 2nd Lord Barnby; 5th Lord Harlech [Chairman of the European Movement, earlier (William) David Ormsby Gore]; Ernest Wistrich, Director of the European Movement (British Council) enclosing papers on the Congress of Europe (2); 6th Lord Cowley, Conservative Research Department [earlier Lord Dangan], enclosing a briefing on the European Community and Latin America; King Leka I of Albania; Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Foreign Secretary, earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; Michael Fidler [President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews] (2). Also includes: programme and guest lists for JA's visit to the United Nations, Geneva [Switzerland].
1 file.

Apr 1973-Sep 1973

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Alan Hare, Managing Director of the Financial Times; John Temple, Chairman of the Anglo-Colombian Society (5); Raimondo Manzini, Italian Ambassador to Britain; Sir William Harpham, Director of Great Britain-East Europe Centre, enclosing a note on the centre; Ward Cornell, Agent General for Ontario in Britain; 3rd Lord Inchcape, President of the Royal Society for India, Pakistan and Ceylon; Duncan Duncan-Sandys on a dispute among the board of Lonrho (2); Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan. Also includes: programmes for JA's visit to Argentina for the presidential inauguration, with cuttings of press coverage; briefing and programme for the visit of William Davis, Premier of Ontario and a Canadian trade mission; programme for the visit of [Dominic] Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta.
2 files.

May 1973-Oct 1973

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Colyton, Chairman of the Anglo Portuguese Society [earlier Henry Hopkinson]; [John] Anthony Kershaw, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (RAF); 6th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] on the possibility of King Hussein of Jordan staying at Hatfield House [Hertfordshire]; Rohan Butler [Historical Adviser to the Foreign Secretary]. Also includes arrangements for various visits, including: letters of thanks and press cuttings from JA's visit to Romania; article on JA's visit to Argentina, May 1973; programme for JA's visit to Istanbul [Turkey].
1 file.

Jun 1973

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Sir Gilbert Longden on the British-American Parliamentary Group; Lord Casey on the British-American Parliamentary Group; Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore, Commander-in-Chief, Fleet; Carel de Wet, South African Ambassador to Britain (2); Kyung Nok Choi, Korean Ambassador to Britain; Sir [William] Nicholas Cayzer, Chairman of the South Africa Club (4); Turgut Menemencioglu, Turkish Ambassador to Britain (2); Sir Horace Phillips, British Ambassador to Turkey; [Frederick] Robin Butler, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; 1st Lord Boyd of Merton [earlier Alan Lennox-Boyd]; Greville Janner; Anthony Bevins, Sunday Express; 3rd Lord Windlesham, Minister of State, Home Office [earlier David Hennessy]; Air Vice-Marshal Stewart Menaul, Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute; Jacques de Beaumarchais, French Ambassador to Britain; Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Foreign Secretary, earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; William Deakin. Also includes: arrangements for various visits, including a visit from Ivo Perisin, Prime Minister of Croatia, a luncheon for Julio Turbay, Colombian Ambassador to Britain and JA's visit to Istanbul [Turkey]; copy of a letter from Desmond Donnelly to [Richard Nixon], President of the United States, sympathising over Watergate and describing the political situation in Britain; briefing and notes for JA's speech to the South Africa Club; notes on a speech by JA to the Royal United Services Institute on arms reductions.
2 files.

Apr 1971-Jan 1974

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Sir John Tilney; Sir [James] Harwood Harrison; Sir Edwin Leather, Governor of Bermuda; Airey Neave; 6th Lord Carrington, Conservative Party Chairman. Also includes: note for and text of an address by JA on doing business with Brazil.
1 file.

Aug 1973-Nov 1973

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Anthony Royle, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office [later Lord Fanshawe of Richmond]; [William] John Biffen on restoring diplomatic relations with Albania, enclosing a note of a meeting with the Italian Ambassador to Albania (3); Jill Knight; Lord Kearton, Chairman of Courtaulds Limited. Also includes arrangements for various visits, including programmes for JA's visit to Poland and luncheons for the North Atlantic Assembly's committee of nine and for the Spanish Ambassador.
1 file.

Sep 1973

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Sir [John] Nicholas Henderson, British Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany; Winston Churchill on his resignation as JA's Parliamentary Private Secretary; Lord Shawcross; Edward Heath, Prime Minister, thanking JA for sending him a copy of his memoirs, "Approach March"; [Wellesley] Theodore Wallace, Vice-Chairman of Greater London Area Conservative political centre; 2nd Lord Lyle of Westbourne [Managing Director of Tate and Lyle Limited] on the future of Commonwealth cane sugar; Sung Chih-kuang, Chinese Ambassador to Britain; Mohamed Mahdi Al-Taijir, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Britain; Ole Jodahl, Swedish Ambassador to Britain; Henry Hankey [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office]; John Harvey [Director of Burmah Oil Trading Limited]; 17th Lord Lauderdale [earlier Patrick Maitland] on JA receiving the wrong picture of the situation in Yugoslavia; Alvin Braynen, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth of the Bahamas in London; Thomas Normanton; 2nd Lord Brookeborough [earlier John Brooke] on the Constitutional Bill; Shigesaburo Maeo, Speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives, on the ties between Britain and Japan. Also includes: press cuttings on Churchill's resignation; copy of a letter from Hugh Jenkins protesting at the Government's recognition of the new Chilean Government.
1 file.

Oct 1973-Jan 1974

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Michael Furmston, Senior Tutor, Lincoln College, University of Oxford; Jacques Beaumarchais, French Ambassador to Britain; Sir Gilbert Longden; Sir Denis Greenhill; Charles Longbottom, Chairman of A and P Appledore International Limited, enclosing memoranda on supplying ships to the Argentine merchant fleet (2); John Temple; Sir Martin Charteris [Private Secretary to the Queen]; Sir John Tilney, Chairman of the Winston Churchill Memorial Statue Committee; Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough, Commandant, Royal College of Defence Studies; General Sir [John] Antony Read, Commandant, Royal College of Defence Studies; Edward Heath, Prime Minister, on JA taking part in a BBC programme on the history of the Conservative Party; Leo d'Erlanger; William Chalmers, Director-General of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Richard Wood, Minister of Overseas Development [later Lord Holderness]; Sir John Wheeler-Bennett; [Henry] Paul Channon, Minister for Housing and Construction [later Lord Kelvedon]; Reginald Eyre, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment. Also includes: arrangements for various visits, including programmes for JA's visit to Hungary; report of the Wyndham Place Trust on Europe's relations with the outside world; note on Anglo-French relations for a speech by JA; text and press cutting of an article by JA for the centenary of Leo Amery's birth.
1 file.

Nov 1973-Jan 1974

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Khalifa Ben Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar; Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Social Services, on the reorganisation of the National Health Service; King Hussein of Jordan; Sir John Grandy, Governor of Gibraltar. Also includes: programme for JA's visit to Poland.
1 file.

Dec 1973-Feb 1974

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: Brian Webster [Private Secretary to the Cabinet Secretary] on a Private Members' Motion put forward by William Hamilton querying JA's property dealings (2); William Hamilton; [Henry] Paul Channon, Minister for Housing and Construction [later Lord Kelvedon]; Maurice Macmillan, Paymaster-General, on JA's dinner for King Hussein of Jordan; Peter Walker, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, on meeting King Hussein; Field Marshal Sir [Richard] Michael Carver, Chief of Defence Staff, on meeting King Hussein; William Whitelaw, Secretary of State for Employment; John Profumo; Sir [James] Harwood Harrison, Chairman of the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union; [Michael] David Cobbold, Mayor of Westminster; Sir John Wheeler-Bennett; Abdulrahman Al-Helaissi, Saudi Ambassador to Britain (2); Reginald Secondé, British Ambassador to Chile, thanking JA for his support; Rene Massigli; Sultan Ibn Abdulaziz, Saudi Minister of Defence and Aviation; Habib Chatti, Tunisian Foreign Minister; [Dudley] Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Circle, on the circle's resignation from the World Anti-Communist League, enclosing memoranda on the league's anti-semitism; Bogdan Orescanin, Yugoslav Ambassador to Britain; Zarco Bulajic, President of Montenegro; Sir Denis Laskey, British Ambassador to Austria; Sir David Scott, British High Commissioner to New Zealand; Lord Feather; Sir Francis Taylor, Chairman of Taylor Woodrow Group; Lord Greenhill of Harrow; Sir Donald Hopson; Hugh Morgan [British Ambassador to Peru]. Also includes: arrangements for various visits, including the visits of King Hussein of Jordan, of the Polish Deputy Foreign Minister, Jan Bisztyga and of a Bulgarian Parliamentary delegation; petitions from the Europe '73 programme for the World Development Movement; notes on Communist influence behind industrial action by miners; proof copy of [?] the foreword to JA's autobiography, "Approach March"; report of the North Atlantic Assembly's Committee of Nine.
2 files.

Oct 1973-Feb 1974

Minister's office: personal correspondence. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Glendevon [earlier Lord John Hope]; Turgut Menemencioglu, Turkish Ambassador to Britain; Bulent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey; Timothy Kitson; Sir Michael Fraser, Deputy Party Chairman, on amendments to the Conservative manifesto relating to Rhodesia and the Middle East; [?] Lord Shawcross; Robert Peliza on tensions in Gibraltar.
1 file.

Feb 1974

Rhodesia: personal minutes. Minutes on subjects including: South African involvement in Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; implementing the 1971 constitutional agreement; sanctions. Also includes a letter from Sir [Roland] Roy Welensky on the situation in Rhodesia; engagements slips, 1973-74.
1 file.

Nov 1972-Feb 1974

European questions: personal minutes. Minutes on subjects including: the energy crisis; Concorde; relations between Europe and the United States; oil supplies and European foreign policy; a meeting with Egon Bahr; JA's visit to Yugoslavia and meeting with President Josip Tito; progress towards European Monetary Union; European policy on the Mediterranean.
1 file.

Dec 1972-Feb 1974

Falklands policy: personal minutes. Minutes on policy towards the Falkland Islands.
1 file.

Jan 1973-Jan 1974

Middle East: personal minutes. Minutes on subjects including: Oman, commenting on a despatch about Sultan Said; Egyptian and Israeli claims to Sinai; the situation in Jordan; avoiding a major conflict in the Middle East.
1 file.

Mar 1973-Oct 1973

Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: personal minutes. Minutes on subjects including: general policy towards the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; discussions from JA's visit to Romania, Jun 1973; discussions from JA's visit to Yugoslavia, Sept 1973; discussions from JA's visit to Poland, Sept 1973; discussions from JA's visit to Hungary, Nov 1973.
1 file.

Jun 1973-Feb 1974

Miscellaneous: personal minutes. Minutes on subjects including: foreign affairs and the General Election campaign, with minutes between JA and Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Foreign Secretary, earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; policy towards Latin America; the supply of Buccaneer military aircraft to South Africa (including correspondence with Patrick Wall) and visits by Wall to Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] and South Africa.
1 file.

Feb 1973-Feb 1974

Visit to Bucharest. Souvenirs from JA's visit to Romania, June 1973, also including postcards from Desmond Donnelly (2) and Spanish press cuttings on Gibraltar.
1 file.

c Jun 1973-Oct 1973

Visit to Hungary: official programmes.
1 file.

Nov 1973