Janus: The Papers of Leopold Amery

Churchill/AMEL 1 contains:
1	The Times, South Africa and "The Problem of the Army"
2	Political, up to First World War
3	First World War, Colonial Office and Admiralty
4	Secretary of State for the Colonies
5	General political, 1930s
6	India Office and the Second World War
7	1940's and post-war

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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title	1940's and post-war
Reference	AMEL 1/7
Covering Dates	1926–1955 (The majority of files date from 1940-55.)
Extent and Medium	33.5 archive boxes

Content and context

Papers, correspondence, speeches and articles (including papers used by LSA as source material), including non-ministerial wartime papers and post-war material, on subjects including: the Empire, particularly trade and economic aspects and LSA's work for organisations such as the Empire Parliamentary Association and Empire Industries Association; economic and monetary policy in general; the United Europe Movement; the Rhodes Trust; LSA's work for the Citizen Service League and Army League, particularly on National Service; Yugoslavia and the Balkans; tributes to individuals including Sir Winston Churchill, 1st Lord Milner and Cecil Rhodes.

Churchill/AMEL 1/7 contains:

Empire and Imperial Preference. Speech notes and texts of speeches and articles by LSA on the Empire, Imperial Preference and expansionist policy, including a speech to the Empire Industries Association on British trading policy.
1 file.

Dec 1942-Jan 1947

Yugoslavia. Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on Yugoslavia, including: text of LSA's appeal to the people of Yugoslavia (broadcast just before the coup against Yugoslavia's pro-German Government) and his press statements on the coup; texts of speeches by LSA on the Yugoslav National Day held in Britain; papers on the Yugoslav Relief Society; speech by LSA on Kossovo Day; speech by LSA on the service to give thanks for the liberation of Belgrade. Also includes: journal of the Yugoslav Society of Great Britain (of which LSA was the President).
1 file.

Mar 1941-Feb 1945

The Times Review of the Year. Copies of the Times review of the year for 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946 and 1947, and extracts from Winston Churchill's war memoirs.
1 file.

Jan 1941-Jan 1950

Migration. Correspondence on a policy for migration from Britain to the Empire, with correspondents including: [William] Collin Brooks, Chairman and Editor of Truth; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on the New Era of Emigration association; Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, Vice-Chairman of the Migration Council (3). Also includes: article written by LSA for the Empire Industries Association and British Empire League; draft of an open letter by Sir Frank Whittle to Patrick Gordon-Walker [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]; minutes of the New Era of Emigration association; pamphlet issued by the Migration Council, with minutes and a memorandum on the founding of the council; extracts from Commonwealth newsletters; issue of the Emigrant.
1 file.

Jul 1947-Apr 1955

School of Empire Studies. Correspondence on the establishment of an Institute of Empire Studies [later the Institute of Commonwealth Studies] at London University, with correspondents including: Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (11); "Bobbety" [Lord Cranborne, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury] (2); John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia]; [?] Peter Fraser; Harold Claughton, Principal of the University of London (6); Sir Cyril Asquith, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies; Frank Horton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London (5); 1st Lord Hailey (3); R A Butler [Minister of Education] (2); John Coatman, former Professor of Imperial Economic Relations, University of London (6); Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma, on the difficulties of securing people properly trained to work in the Empire (2); Reginald Coupland [Beit Professor of History of the British Empire, Oxford University]. Also includes: memoranda on founding the institute; survey of work undertaken in the University of London relating to problems of the Empire.
1 file.

Feb 1940-Jun 1944

Mountaineering forces and mountain warfare. Correspondence on LSA's ideas as President of the Alpine Club for training troops in mountain warfare, with correspondents including: Henry Tyndale, Editor of the Alpine Journal; Francis Smythe (4); Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air [later 1st Lord Thurso]; Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] (2); [Sydney] Bryan Donkin; Major-General John Whitaker [Director of Military Training, War Office] (6); Sir [Percy] James Grigg, Secretary of State for War; Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye [Vice-Chief of Imperial General Staff]; Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, Air Training Corps Commandant for Scotland (3). Also includes: notes by LSA on the draft handbook for mountain warfare; minutes of a meeting of the Alpine Club.
1 file.

Jan 1940-Apr 1946

Empire Parliamentary Association: correspondence. Correspondence, mainly with Sir T Drummond Shiels, Acting Secretary of the Association, and Sir Howard d'Egville [organiser and first secretary of the Association]. Other correspondents include: Malcolm MacDonald, British High Commissioner in Canada, on the value of d'Egville's work in Canada as an unofficial link with the American Congress; Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] advising leaving d'Egville to carry on his work in Canada and the United States, and on inviting members of Congress to visit Britain (3); Henry Drummond-Wolff on relations with the United States and the need for a comprehensive Imperial policy; Henry Cody, President of the University of Toronto; [George] Howard Ferguson, former Canadian High Commissioner in Britain, on the importance of d'Egville's work in the United States; Sir [Robert] Hugh O'Neill on the publication of the Foreign Affairs Report in Canada by d'Egville; Frederick Pethick-Lawrence on the Foreign Affairs Report; Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso]; Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] on the visit to Britain by Republican Congressmen and an official Congressional visit (2); John Martin [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on the Congressional visit (6); Richard Law [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, later 1st Lord Coleraine] (2); Charles Emmott; Edward Fitzroy, Speaker of the House of Commons; Arthur Evans, applying for a place on the Association committee. Also includes: reports on the situation in Spain, the Ukraine [Soviet Union] and France; report of the 1938 annual general meeting of the Association; memoranda by Sir Howard d'Egville on the United States and the war, printing of the Foreign Affairs Report in Canada, and his work in Canada and the United States; views from the Empire on the war; notes on the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation to Britain; summary of d'Egville's report on his visit to South Africa.
2 files.

Jul 1938-Dec 1942

Empire Parliamentary Association: correspondence. Correspondence, mainly with Sir T Drummond Shiels, Acting Secretary of the Association, and Sir Howard d'Egville [organiser and first secretary of the Association]. Other correspondents include: 1st Lord Addison, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, on suggestions that d'Egville should retire; Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] (2); Arthur Evans, on the importance of consulting the Foreign Office about d'Egville's activities in Washington [United States] due to the sensitivity of Congress to Empire questions; Douglas Clifton Brown, Speaker, House of Commons [later 1st Lord Ruffside]; Sir Ralph Verney [Secretary to the Speaker]; 1st Lord Leathers [Minister of War Transport] (2); Richard Law [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, later 1st Lord Coleraine]; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada; Reginald Purbrick; Sir Stanley Spurling; 1st Lord Stansgate [earlier William Benn] (2); Sir John Wardlaw-Milne [earlier John Milne]; Sir Percy Harris (2); [Robert] Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary [later 1st Lord Avon] (2); Clement Attlee [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs] (2); Guy Millard, Foreign Office, on arrangements for the visit to Britain by American senators; Sir Alan Lascelles, Private Secretary to King George VI; "Bobbety" [Lord Cranborne, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury], advising against letting d'Egville join a delegation to Australia, as he was felt to be too close to the Americans, sympathising with criticism over a speech by Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to the Association, and on a proposed visit to China (4); 3rd Lord Dudley [earlier Lord Ednam]; 1st Lord Birdwood; Sir Eric Machtig [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]; William McCourt, Clerk of Legislative Assembly, New South Wales, on sending a delegation to Britain. Also includes: Association reports; memoranda by d'Egville on the present position and future of the Association, and the Empire and the war; text of address on the Commonwealth given by LSA at an Association course for Army education; issues of the Indian Opinion newsletter, "Truth about India"; notes on a visit by the Australian and New Zealand Parliamentary delegations; note on meeting of Commonwealth delegations to the Empire Parliamentary Conference at Ottawa, Canada; text of broadcast by Sir Percy Harris on his impressions of the Canadian Parliament and United States Congress, from the Ottawa conference; notes on the delegation to Australia; statement on publications by the British branch of the Association.
3 files.

Nov 1942-Jul 1947

Empire: general. Correspondence and papers, with correspondents including: Sir Dougal Malcolm on the Colonial League accounts; Gervas Huxley on promoting Empire wines; 1st Lord Simon, urging LSA to support a fund for Commonwealth students to study in Britain; Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on the future constitution of Ceylon [later Sri Lanka]; Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, on Ceylon; "Bobbety" [Lord Cranborne, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury], on Ceylon; Sir Martin Melvin on potential damage done by an Anglican appeal on behalf of Malta. Also includes: text of a speech by Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, former Governor of Burma, to the Royal Empire Society, on the situation in Burma [later Myanmar]; list of research bodies dealing with colonial affairs; Royal Empire Society pamphlet on the political future of the Commonwealth and Empire; Empire Industries Association bulletin on Imperial Preference.
1 file.

Jul 1945-Jul 1947

Empire Industries Association: minutes, memos, bulletins. Papers and correspondence, including: issues of the Association bulletin; print of a speech by LSA as President of the Association, given at an Empire Unity Campaign meeting; trade and unemployment statistics, 1929-35; memorandum by LSA on Association policy, particularly economic nationalism, the effect of the American system and the worldwide depression, links between trade and employment and protection of British and Empire industry and agriculture; statement by the Association on the Washington Loan Agreement; memorandum submitted to the Conservative Committee on Industrial Policy on the Washington Loan; facts and figures on trade under Imperial Preference; memorandum on the importance of British Preferences to the Empire sugar, wines and spirits, canned and dried fruit, coffee and tobacco industries; minutes of meetings; papers on amalgamation with the British Empire League. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Croft, Chairman of the Association, on post-war tariffs, the importance of keeping control of Britain's monetary system, recruitment for the Association, meetings and a suggested merger with the Imperial Industries Club (3); Effie, Lady Selsdon, on others with an interest in Imperial Preference, such as [Leonard] David Gammans, [Joseph] Arthur Rank and Sir Ernest Cooper; Walter Elliot; E Tatham, Secretary of the Association (8); R A Butler, Conservative Research Department, on having an organisation within the party for Imperial affairs, and also on Conservative policy on Imperial Preference and protection; [Hugh] Fletcher Moulton, Secretary of the Imperial Industries Club, suggesting a merger with the Association.
1 file.

Dec 1942-Dec 1947

Empire Industries Association: correspondence and articles. Correspondence, mainly on fundraising matters and the launch of the Empire Unity Campaign, with Association officials and other correspondents including: Sir Donald Simson on subjects including a statement by the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Sidney Holland] saying that New Zealand's greatest contribution to world peace would be to help restore the Empire, and giving an account of his activities for the Association in Australia and New Zealand (6); [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]; Sir Brian Mountain, [Chairman of Eagle Star Insurance Company Limited]; Rex Benson, Director of Robert Benson, Lonsdale and Company Limited, on subjects including the need for co-operation with the United States in trade (2); [Frank] Clavering Fison, Chairman of Fisons Limited; Charles Taylor [Managing Director of Cow and Gate Limited]; Sir John Greenly, Chairman of Babcock and Wilcox Limited (2); Sir Montague Burton, Chairman of Montague Burton Limited; Sir William Crawford; Sir [Sydney] Richard Wells (2); Sir William Cooper; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken]; Julian Crossley [Chairman of Barclay's Bank] on economic policy; Sir Basil Brooke [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, later 1st Lord Brookeborough] on addressing meetings and the success of the 1949 election (3); Sir George Barstow [Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Prudential Assurance Company Limited]; Sir Harry Methven; Humphry Berkeley; Sir Samuel Beale; [John] Gibson Jarvie, Chairman of United Dominions Trust Limited; Robert Menzies (3); Thomas Hutton, Editor of the Birmingham Post (4); 1st Lord Iliffe [President of the Birmingham Post]; John Howard (7); 1st Lord McGowan; Sir Edward Wilshaw [President of Cable and Wireless Limited]; George Tilley, Chairman of Pearl Assurance Company Limited; Herbert Crocker on Association branches in Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; Sir Frank Morgan, General Manager of the Prudential Assurance Company Limited, on Labour proposals to nationalize insurance companies; Sir Robert Webber, Western Mail and Echo Limited (2); Sir Ernest Canning; 1st Lord Weir; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye on addressing the Association in South Africa. Also includes: statement of policy by LSA; progress reports on the Empire Unity Campaign; bulletins, minutes and annual reports of the Association and British Empire League; note by LSA on future policy.
3 files.

Jan 1948-Nov 1951

Empire Industries Association: speeches. Texts, prints and speaking notes of speeches by LSA, given as President of the Association.
1 file.

Jan 1947-Dec 1953

Empire Industries Association: correspondence. Correspondence, mainly with Association officials and other correspondents including: Sir Donald Simson; Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Association (7); George Drew, Leader of the Opposition of Canada, on speaking to the Association and establishing branches in Canada (2); Siegmund Warburg, Director of S G Warburg and Company Limited (2); Sir Hubert Henderson [Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford]; Robert Menzies; Sir Chintaman Deshmukh, Indian Minister of Finance; Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, on the International Federation of Agriculture Producers, farming subsidies and suggesting an Empire Producers Conference during the Festival of Britain; 1st Lord Lyle of Westbourne, on resigning Chairmanship of the Association. Also includes: minutes; the Association programme for 1951; annual reports; history of Imperial Preference; report by Ronald Russell on the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) negotiations at Torquay [Devon]; report on Association activities at the economic conference in Strasbourg [France], and in Geneva [Switzerland] relating to the GATT negotiations; draft of speech by LSA for the 1950 Conservative Conference on the need to increase production in the Empire to avoid the threat from Communism; list of subscribers; issue of the Empire Producer, with a letter from Julian Amery on trade with Canada.
1 file.

May 1950-Jun 1951

Empire Industries Association: correspondence. Correspondence, mainly with Association officials and other correspondents including: George Drew, Leader of the Opposition of Canada, on speaking to the Association and establishing links between Canada and Britain; Lord Balfour of Inchrye, on resigning as Chairman of the Association, and the Association deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [R A Butler] (4); Sir Donald Simson. Also includes: minutes; Association bulletins; text of a speech by LSA given as President on the economic situation and the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) negotiations; memoranda submitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the Parliamentary Committee of the Association, on Commonwealth Preference and the Geneva Agreements on trade, and the need to strengthen the sterling area; memorandum by LSA giving the case against GATT; history of Imperial Preference.
1 file.

Jan 1952-Dec 1952

Empire Industries Association: correspondence. Correspondence, mainly with Association officials and other correspondents including: Sir [Henry] Victor Raikes on his concerns at the Government's attitude to trade; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Association, on subjects including immediate policy and proceeding without regard to party considerations, commissioning a portrait of LSA and resigning his Chairmanship (14); Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies [later 1st Lord Chandos] (2); Maurice Petherick; 1st Lord Lyle of Westbourne; Simon Elwes on being commissioned to paint LSA's portrait. Also includes: article by LSA for the Association bulletin on the Conservative U-turn in supporting GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] instead of Imperial Preference; bulletins; memoranda on GATT; addresses given by LSA as President, on the shortcomings of Conservative economic policy and the future of the Commonwealth.
1 file.

Jan 1953-Sep 1955

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by LSA on subjects including: the Empire Industries Association; a tribute to Chaim Weizmann, late President of Israel; the 1952 Commonwealth Conference; Imperial Preference and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade); the role of the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth; the need for national and Imperial reconstruction; genealogy; the Central Eastern European Conference; the 1951 General Election; the Horatian Society; the modern Commonwealth; the Harveian Society; Canada; memorial to [Frederick] Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln; mountaineering, particularly as a sport for soldiers; British responsibilities in the Middle East; the defence of Europe; the colonisation of Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; deflation, inflation and devaluation; the spirit of Conservatism; the record of the Labour Government; European and Empire unity; the consequences of overthrowing Josip Tito [Prime Minister of Yugoslavia]; Northern Ireland; the economic crisis; challenges facing the modern church; the United Europe Movement; the Commonwealth and the United States; European unity and Empire Preference. Also includes: messages of congratulation following LSA's speech at the Party Conference in Llandudno [Wales] (October 1948) from individuals including Julian Amery, with letters from LSA to Florence Amery describing the conference.
4 files.

Jul 1947-Dec 1952

Broadcasts. Texts of broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: Fairbridge Farm Schools in Australia; Empire defence; the economics of Empire; the 1935 Peace Ballot; the Empire and world peace; the politician versus the businessman; the Jewish settlement in Palestine; the Empire Producers Organisation; the way of peace; Germany's debt to European civilisation; tributes to Yugoslavia; why Italy should not become a German ally; the Balkans; commentaries on the war (1940, including Norway and Germany's occupation of France); venereal disease; the Magna Carta and India; Turkey; tributes to Greece; the war effort in India and Burma [later Myanmar]; Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] as a leader and writer; Bulgaria; Turkish Independence Day; the new Indian constitution; questions from the United States and Canada; the Indian Congress Party's demand for the end of British rule in India; broadcasting Parliamentary debates (in a Cabinet memorandum by LSA); the British constitution; the death of Mohandas Gandhi; the Swiss constitution; Joseph Chamberlain; tribute to [William] Mackenzie King; tribute to Jan Smuts; Europe and the Commonwealth; tribute to Lionel Curtis; the history of the Times; tribute to Sir Francis Wylie, Secretary to the Rhodes Trust; tribute to Chaim Weizmann; 21st anniversary of the Statute of Westminster. Also includes letters from individuals including: [Cyril] Kenneth Bird on his programme about Joseph Chamberlain; Mary Adams [Head of BBC Talks and Current Affairs] on a broadcast about economic relations with the United States; Siegmund Warburg, on a broadcast to Germany; 1st Lord Rennell [earlier James Rodd] on a broadcast to Greece; Thanassis Aghnides, Greek Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on a broadcast to Greece (2).
4 files.

Nov 1931-Jul 1952

Empire Industries Association reprints. Prints of speeches, articles and broadcasts by LSA as President of the Association, on subjects including: the economic situation; Empire trade; electoral reform; inter-racial co-operation in East Africa; the modern Commonwealth; apartheid in South Africa; the strength of sterling; British responsibilities in the Middle East; the diamond jubilee of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; tribute to Jan Smuts; early Alpine guides; the English-Thinking World; the devaluation of sterling; trading non-discrimination and preference; the economic situation; conservatism (for Chambers's Encyclopaedia); the Commonwealth and European unity; the 1948 conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers and Ministers; Commonwealth trade; the Empire Industries Association; facts and figures on Imperial Preference; the Commonwealth and the United States; the Commonwealth as a world power; Indian independence; the British constitution; the Washington Loan Agreement; the United States and Imperial Preference.
2 files.

Oct 1945-Dec 1951

Empire Economic Union: correspondence. Correspondence, mainly between LSA as Chairman and Sir Herbert Williams, Secretary, on subjects including funding for the Union, Free Trade in Western Europe, attitudes in the party to Conservative policy on Imperial Preference, publishing a booklet on the post-war economic world and the agriculture committee, and with other correspondents including: Reginald Purbrick; Vernon Malcolmson [Co-Founder, British Empire Producers' Organisation] on co-operation with the Empire Industries Association; Henry Drummond-Wolff (3); 1st Lord Croft on co-operation with the British Empire Producers' Organisation and a BBC broadcast attacking Imperial Preference (2); Brendan Bracken, Minister of Information, on the broadcast and on Empire publicity in general (2); Sir Frederick Mills, on protecting industry; Sir John Caulcutt [Chairman, Barclays Bank] resigning from the Union's Executive Committee; Sir William McLean; Sir Donald Simson; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour] resigning from the Union; Ronald Russell [Research Secretary, Empire Economic Union] on subjects including his book on Imperial Preference (4). Also includes: report on the European Economic Conference in London (1949); foreword by LSA to the Union report on agriculture; minutes; report on the British Empire Producers' Conference (1938); report on British agricultural policy.
1 file.

Feb 1939-Jan 1951

Empire Economic Union: correspondence. Correspondence, mainly between LSA as Chairman and Sir Herbert Williams, Secretary, on funding for the Union, committee membership and winding up the Union, with other correspondents including: [Edward] Henry Legge-Bourke; Ronald Russell [Research Secretary, Empire Economic Union] on supporting a delegation from the West Indian sugar producers, his book on Imperial Preference and on a Union manifesto (3); 3rd Lord Long; Cuthbert Alport [Director of the Conservative Political Centre]; Robert Boothby; [Margaret] Patricia Hornsby-Smith, asking for LSA to speak at a meeting of adopted Conservative candidates to help revive Imperialist spirit. Also includes: note on the Colonial Office reference and information section; reports and minutes, including an annual report for 1950, proposal for a monthly journal and memorandum on the future of the Union; note on Empire sugar; figures on colonial production and potentialities; memorandum on the Empire and a West European customs union; survey of the commodity shortage by Ronald Russell.
1 file.

Jan 1948-Apr 1953

Correspondence on Henry Drummond-Wolff's book "Foundations of the Future". Correspondents on the book (published by the Empire Economic Union) include: Sir Herbert Williams, Secretary of the Empire Economic Union, on publication and distribution of the book (18); Henry Drummond-Wolff (14); Sir Frank Fox on editing the book (11); Arthur Bryant on helping with the book (4); Henry Wilson Smith [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] on sending funds to Drummond-Wolff in the United States; 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary, Rhodes Trust]; Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin]. Also includes: foreword by LSA.
1 file.

Jul 1941-Jul 1943

Correspondence on Henry Drummond-Wolff's finances. Correspondents include: Henry Drummond-Wolff (15); Sir Herbert Williams, Secretary of the Empire Economic Union (11); Sir Kingsley Wood [Chancellor of the Exchequer] (4).
1 file.

May 1942-Feb 1943

Empire Youth Movement: correspondence with Major Ney. Correspondence between LSA and Major Frederick Ney, Founder and Honorary Organiser of the movement on subjects including a rally for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a Youth City, the Empire Youth Sunday movement and the National Council of Education of Canada, with other correspondents including: Sir Edward Peacock (4); Sir Robert Knox, Secretary to the Coronation Joint Committee; 1st Lord Elton, General Secretary, Rhodes Trust (10); 16th Duke of Norfolk [earlier Lord Arundel]; "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs [earlier Lord Cranborne] (2); A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] on naming ships for the Dominions; Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] on Ney's work in Canada (2); [Joseph] Adelard Godbout, Prime Minister of Quebec; L E Elliott, Executive Secretary, National Council of Education of Canada (5); Sir Malcolm Robertson [Chairman of the British Council] explaining why the Council could not sponsor lecture tours in Canada through Ney; [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Minister of Information, later 1st Lord Norwich] on not interfering in Canadian affairs (2); 9th Lord Bessborough [earlier Lord Duncannon] on a possible Youth City (5); William Goodenough [Chairman of Governors of Dominion Students' Hall Trust] on Youth City, and its effect on the programme of students from the Dominions at London House [later Goodenough College] (2); Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, explaining that he could not broadcast to the youth of the United States. Also includes: notes on the movement; minutes and programmes for rallies and meetings; memorandum by Sir Charles Morgan-Webb on the drain on Britain's gold reserves; notes on the Commonwealth Youth Trust; pamphlet on Central African federation; memoranda on Youth City, with text of address by Lord Bessborough.
4 files.

Jan 1939-Apr 1955

Bretton Woods, sterling etc. Correspondence and annotated papers on monetary policy, with correspondents including: [William] Stephen King-Hall, K-H News-Letter Service; Sir Hubert Henderson [Professor of Political Economy, Oxford] on sterling balances. Also includes: memorandum by Sir Charles Morgan-Webb to the Research Committee of the Economic Reform Club and Institute on sterling balances; prints from the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (Bretton Woods, United States, 1944); Parliamentary statements on the establishment of the International Monetary Fund; pamphlet on the Bretton Woods Agreement by Robert Boothby, Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee; article by Ernst Schumacher and Thomas Balogh, Oxford University Institute of Statistics, on an International Monetary Fund; general notes on Bretton Woods; report of the Palestine Currency Board (1945).
1 file.

Apr 1944-May 1947

Economic and monetary policy: correspondence. Correspondents include: David Eccles; Norman Robertson, High Commissioner for Canada, on the feasibility of Canada leaving the dollar area to join the sterling area; Walter Nash [New Zealand Minister of Finance]; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the economic influence of the United States; 1st Lord Croft on the Export Guarantees Bill and Imperial Preference (2); Robert Brand [Treasury Representative in Washington] on keeping confidence in sterling; Sir Hubert Henderson [Economic Adviser to the Treasury] on papers by LSA and Indian sterling balances (4); Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, on the delegation to the United States; Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later 1st Lord Chandos] on stability of exchanges; "Bobbety", Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs [Lord Cranborne, later 5th Lord Salisbury] on discussions with Dominion Governments; Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer [later 1st Lord Waverley] on subjects including Imperial Preference discussions (3); Thomas Balogh, Oxford University Institute of Statistics; Sir Clive Baillieu; Emanuel Shinwell on post-war economic policy; Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London] on memoranda by LSA and international co-operation; Sir Patrick Hannon; 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Henry Mond] on retaining Imperial Preference, and using silver as bullion; 1st Lord Catto, Governor of the Bank of England on the Belgian Monetary Agreement; Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham] on private members of Parliament not dealing with trade policy during the war; Rene Leon. Also includes: memorandum [? by LSA] on sterling balances; paper by Sir Hubert Henderson on the International Monetary Fund; paper by Emanuel Shinwell on post-war reconstruction.
1 file.

Mar 1941-Sep 1949

Civil Aviation. Correspondence on post-war civil aviation policy, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Swinton, Minister for Civil Aviation [earlier Philip Cunliffe-Lister and Philip Lloyd-Greame]; Ronald Tree on the necessity for an Air Transport Command; General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] on specialisation in army units, particularly the success of anti-tank guns; Harold Balfour [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air] on the report of the Post-War Civil Aviation Committee; Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Deneys Reitz [South African Minister of Native Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister] on the impracticality of international aviation agreements; 7th Lord Londonderry [earlier Lord Castlereagh]; Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff, on a suggestion by LSA for air bases in Africa; Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London] on the view of the United States; 1st Lord Hankey; "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster, earlier Lord Belgrave]; 2nd Lord Finlay on his report into the internationalisation of civil aviation. Also includes: press notice on British Railways' plans for an air network for Britain and Europe; notes by W S Robinson on post-war aviation.
1 file.

Jul 1942-Aug 1945

Letters to the Press. Texts and cuttings of letters from LSA to the press, with related correspondence, on subjects including: the Commonwealth Conference (1952) and the economic imbalance between the Commonwealth and the United States; the place of the Commonwealth in the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; production and exports to the United States; American tariffs; trade within the Empire; the need for a balanced economy; the stability of sterling; Commonwealth membership, particularly relating to the Gold Coast; cold war defence; Arab-Israeli relations; refugee Yugoslav generals; dissolution of Parliament; devaluation of sterling; the sterling balances; India and the Commonwealth; Free Trade; British policy in the Middle East; trade with Canada; responsibility for Palestine; the economic crisis (1947-48); customs union and preference; the transfer of power in India; the sterling system; socialism and the gold standard; Imperial Preference; bombing military and non-military targets in Germany; family allowances; venereal disease; Empire films; the Coal Bill (1938) and the consumer; Anglo-American trade; the state of the army; the need for a War Cabinet. Other correspondents include: John Astor [owner of the Times]; Pierse Loftus [Chairman of the Rural Reconstruction Association]; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst]; Henry Hodson, Editor of the Sunday Times; William Casey, Editor of the Times (2); David Eccles, thanking LSA for his support for Eccles's article on sterling; Ivor Brown, Editor of the Observer, asking LSA to review a biography of J L Garvin; Arthur Cranfield, Editor and Director of the Star, asking LSA to write an obituary for Winston Churchill (2); Thomas Hutton, Editor of the Birmingham Post (3).
2 files.

Jun 1936-Dec 1952

Articles and memoranda. Texts of papers by LSA on subjects including: the economic crisis and trade policy (1952); Pakistan; the case for Commonwealth Preference; Jawaharlal Nehru; the nature of British Parliamentary government; forms of colonial self-government; the state of the Commonwealth and Empire (1951); the Most Favoured Nation clause; the 1951 Commonwealth conference; the condition of sterling; the Liberal Party and electoral reform; Empire Day; devaluation of sterling; the theory of [Sally] Herbert Frankel [Oxford Professor in the Economics of Underdeveloped Countries] on the relation of the colonies to the European economy; Canada and the sterling area; union with Europe; economic relations between the United States and the rest of the world; the South African War; the 1949 budget; the dollar gap. Also includes: notes on Sinai [Egypt]; related correspondence, including letters from Hargreaves Parkinson, Editor of the Financial Times and William Casey, Editor of the Times (2).
2 files.

Jul 1949-Aug 1952

Miscellaneous articles. Texts of papers by LSA on subjects including: the Commonwealth and European unity; the 1948 Commonwealth conference; Empire unity and world peace; common interests of the Commonwealth and the United States; a single world economics system, compared to regional or group economics; the Commonwealth as a world power; Yugoslavia; the political situation in India; Conservatism and the Conservative Party (for Chambers's Encyclopaedia). Also includes: list of articles, memoranda and reviews, 1947-52; related correspondence, including a letter from Georg Schwarzenberger, Editor, London Institute of World Affairs, and M D Law, Managing Editor of Chambers's Encyclopaedia (4).
1 file.

Jan 1947-Oct 1948

Miscellaneous speeches. Annotated speech notes by LSA on subjects including: the future of Parliament; the London Library; United Europe; the political situation in India; relations between Britain and South America; London House [later Goodenough College]; the international situation; Burma [later Myanmar]; the record of the Labour Government; the Washington Loan Agreement, and its effect on the British export trade; the Indian constitutional problem; Britain's place in Europe; Empire Preference and the export trade; the United States and Imperial Preference; post-war trade with India; post-war planning; Akbar the Great; the University of London and scholarships in Oriental languages; the British Association for International Understanding. Also includes: list of speeches; report on the establishment of a centre of Oriental culture in London.
2 files.

Dec 1940-Jul 1947

Miscellaneous articles and items. Texts of papers by LSA on subjects including: Free Trade and the Most Favoured Nation clause; functions of a National Planning Board; the future of Italy; trade; Europe, the Commonwealth and world security; comparisons between the Swiss and British systems of government; Europe and Germany; economic warfare; the 1940 budget. Also includes: list of articles; pamphlet on post-war opportunities in the colonial service; notes on George Yeh, representative of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London, and his views on India; note on Winston Churchill's resignation as Prime Minister, and on rules for the return of War Cabinet documents; pamphlet by Marshal of the RAF 1st Lord Trenchard, annotated by LSA, on the principles of air power in war; minutes and report of the BBC General Advisory Council on the BBC's wartime activities; article on LSA's "The Framework of the Future" by Quintin Hogg [later 2nd Lord Hailsham and Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; text of a speech by Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, annotated by LSA, on the new world order; print of a speech by Churchill, August 1940 ["The Few"].
1 file.

Aug 1937-Oct 1948

Political speeches. Rough speech notes by LSA on subjects including: the modern Commonwealth; expanding Commonwealth trade; the economy and unemployment.
2 files.

Feb 1948-Jul 1951

Washington Loan Agreement. Papers on the 1945 loan to Britain from the United States, including: rough notes by LSA; reports of the Federation of British Industries on the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, 1944-45; pamphlet by LSA on an economic policy for Britain and the Empire; statement by the Empire Industries Association on the agreement; texts and speech notes of speeches and articles by LSA; print of the agreement, annotated by LSA; material from the American Information Service, including collected American editorial comment on the agreement, a press statement by Dean Acheson, American Under-Secretary of State, and text of speech by James Byrnes, Secretary of State; extracts from the hearings of the American Senate Committee on Banking and Currency; figures for American trade with the Empire, from Ronald Russell, Research Secretary of the Empire Economic Union; bulletins and policy memorandum of the Empire Industries Association; text of speech by Sir Evan Gibb, President of the London Chamber of Commerce; article by Sir Arthur Page on Imperial Preference; points for questions on the agreement.
1 file.

Nov 1944-Feb 1947

Washington Loan Agreement: correspondence. Correspondents on the 1945 loan to Britain from the United States include: Sir William Larke; 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Willey]; Robert Boothby on subjects including differences between Britain and the United States over the agreement, the sterility of the Conservative leadership and concerns about the views of Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos] (4); Thomas Balogh [Oxford University Institute of Statistics]; Charles Fay, Cambridge University Reader in Economic History; James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip], commenting on misleading statements on Preference by Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; 1st Lord Maugham; Ralph Rayner; Brendan Bracken; J L Garvin; [Edward] Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer; George Heaton-Nicholls [High Commissioner for South Africa in London]; Edward Beddington-Behrens; Oliver Stanley; 1st Lord Bennett; 1st Lord Catto [Governor of the Bank of England] on bringing Newfoundland [Canada] into the sterling area; 1st Lord Nuffield [earlier William Morris] on the chances of equalling pre-war export figures; Sir Halford Mackinder. Also includes: report by Ronald Russell [Research Secretary, Empire Economic Union] on an economic conference in Geneva [Switzerland]; text of an interview with LSA by T E Utley [Peter Utley], the Observer, on the agreement's effect on Imperial Preference; extracts from the hearings of the American Senate Committee on Banking and Currency; reports of the committee of the 1946 International Trade and Employment Conference; American Chamber of Commerce in London pamphlet on American participation in British industry.
1 file.

Aug 1945-Sep 1947

Preparatory Committee of the International Conference on Trade and Employment, London 15 Oct 1946. Papers of the committee called by the United Nations, to consider proposals for an International Trade Organisation, and to prepare the agenda for the 1947 Trade and Employment Conference. Includes: press releases; texts of opening speeches by Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; outline proposals; delegates' statements; suggested procedure; journal of the committee; memorandum by the British delegation on international employment policy; Australian views on general commercial policy; committee reports on subjects including restrictive business practices, exchange control, subsidies on manufactured goods and primary products, state trading, general commercial policy and the work of the committee. Also includes: issues of the Empire Producer with articles on the committee.
2 files.

Oct 1946-Feb 1947

BEPO [British Empire Producers Organisation]. Includes: news-letter and issue of the BEPO journal, the Empire Producer; correspondence with Reginald Winter, Secretary of BEPO, and Charles Ponsonby, Chairman; reports from the preparatory committee of the United Nations Trade and Employment Conference at Geneva [Switzerland]; memorandum on BEPO's post-war programme; memorandum by BEPO and the Tobacco Federation of the British Empire on the importance of preferences in the Dominion and colonial sugar, wines and spirits, canned and dried fruit, coffee and tobacco industries.
1 file.

Nov 1945-Dec 1952

GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]. Papers annotated by LSA, including: pamphlets and articles on subjects including the end of the International Trade Organization, GATT and the Havana Charter, Japan's attempt to sign up to GATT and Imperial Preference; print of the GATT text with related documents; Board of Trade report on the Geneva [Switzerland] Tariff Negotiations; memorandum drafted by LSA for the Empire Industries Association and the British Empire League, and submitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on trade policy; issue of Hansard covering the House of Lords debate on Inter-Commonwealth trade (April 1952); Board of Trade report on the Torquay [Devon] Tariff Negotiations; Board of Trade report on the Havana [Cuba] Conference on Trade and Employment (1947-48); American State Department proposed charter for an International Trade Organization, with joint proposals by the United States and Britain. Correspondents include: [George] Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, on GATT's links with tariff agreements; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]; John Grigg, National and English Review.
1 file.

Dec 1945-Dec 1953

ELEC [European League for Economic Co-operation]: memoranda, papers, correspondence. Correspondents include: Edouard Giscard d'Estaing on closer European union; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, Secretary, then Chairman of ELEC, on subjects including stopping Robert Boothby from resigning from the United Europe Movement, and ELEC conferences (6); Edward Beddington-Behrens, President, then Vice-President of ELEC on subjects including ELEC conferences (with a copy of a letter from R A Butler, replying to Beddington-Behrens's congratulations on becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his suggestion that someone should represent the Dominions on the Court of the Bank of England) (5); Sir Cecil Kisch (2); [Stanley] Paul Chambers (2); "Bob" [1st Lord Brand]; Julian Amery. Papers include: memorandum by LSA on trade and production; memorandum by Roy Harrod [Economic Adviser, International Monetary Fund] on the plan for a system of mutual European credit lines; minutes, reports, pamphlets and preparatory documents of the ELEC, on subjects including the monetary reconstruction of Europe, the dollar gap, the Schuman Plan and monetary co-ordination, European monetary union, relationships of continental currencies with sterling, stability and interchangeability of European currencies, the organisation of transport in Western Europe, the rearmament of Western Europe and economic unification, freeing international currency transfers, trade relations between the Commonwealth and Europe (including comments from the Dutch and the ELEC Economic Commission), the price of gold and European economic co-operation; texts of speeches by LSA on the imbalance in the world economy caused by the dollar gap, and the shrinking world; plan of work for 1952, with comments from Lady Rhys-Williams; summary of a United Nations report on measures for international economic stability.
4 files.

Jan 1950-Oct 1955

UEM [United Europe Movement]: European Unity. Correspondence, particularly on the formation of the UEM, with correspondents including: Sir [Arthur] Shuldham Redfern, former Secretary to Governor-General of Canada, on finding Canadian contacts for the UEM (3); Duncan Duncan-Sandys, Joint Secretary of the UEM, on subjects including organising the UEM and gaining Labour and Liberal support (8); John Foster; Franz Nowack, Neues Europa journal (3); Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, on his concerns about a United Europe, and the New Zealand view of regional groupings; Violet Markham [Violet Carruthers] agreeing to join the UEM committee, and on her concerns about large organisations, particularly that the United Nations will be the same as the League of Nations (2); Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (2); Vivian Carter, suggesting that the Soviet Union should be included in a European Union; Sir Herbert Williams on the effect which a European Union would have on the Empire and the protectionist system; Percy Spender on Australian concerns about Britain's future role; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi [President of the Paneuropean Union], urging co-operation between the UEM and Paneuropean Union (2); Dame Edith Lyttelton; 1st Lord Lindsay of Birker, Master of Balliol College, Oxford (2); Professor Walt Rostow [Special Assistant to Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Europe] on a proposed Economic Council for Europe; Air Vice-Marshal Malcolm Henderson, Director General, Over-Seas League; Ethel, Lady Snowden; G M Trevelyan; Lionel Curtis (2); "Ned" [1st Lord Altrincham, earlier Edward Grigg] on the importance of organizing Western Europe; Harold Nicolson, on having Labour representation in the UEM and reaction to Winston Churchill's speech in Zurich [Switzerland] on a United Europe (2); Leslie Hore-Belisha; 9th Lord de la Warr [earlier Lord Buckhurst]; Sir Walter Layton; 1st Lord De L'Isle; Ernest Brown. Also includes: pamphlet by Winston Churchill on a United Europe as a way of preventing future war, with comments by Lionel Curtis; draft statements of aims for a European Union and on a United Europe; plan for a United States of Europe campaign; notes on the Paneuropean Union.
1 file.

Sep 1946-Dec 1947

UEM [United Europe Movement]. Correspondence, particularly on the finances of the UEM, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Layton, Treasurer of the UEM; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, Joint Secretary of the UEM on subjects including finances and the Executive Committee (10); Sir Robert Boothby; Edward Beddington-Behrens [Vice-Chairman of the UEM] (3); Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi [President of the Paneuropean Union] (4); [Stanley] Paul Chambers; [William] Stephen King-Hall; Leif Egeland, High Commissioner for South Africa in London; John Beasley [High Commissioner for Australia in London]; William Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in London; Duncan Duncan-Sandys [Joint Secretary of the UEM] on subjects including having official approval from the Conservative Party (3); Thomas Martin [Secretary of the UEM] (3). Also includes: minutes; policy memorandum by Robert Boothby; papers on the control of the European Review; balance sheet and accounts, 1951 and 1952; Foreign Office prints annotated by LSA on British proposals for the Council of Europe, Germany's defence contribution and the European Defence Community; ELEC (European League for Economic Co-operation) papers; draft statement of aims of the UEM by LSA; text of speech by LSA to the Central and Eastern European Commission of the European Movement; public opinion survey on European Union; print of speeches on United Europe from a meeting at the Royal Albert Hall [London], May 1947; issues of the United Europe newsletter; European Parliamentary Union plan for a federation of Europe, annotated by LSA; pamphlet on Western union by Sir Robert Boothby, annotated by LSA; pamphlets on a European Court of Human Rights, a consultative assembly, principals of European policy, and the origin, objectives and organization of a European Union; Conservative Central Office notes on current politics, concerning the Council of Europe.
2 files.

May 1947-Mar 1955

UEM [United Europe Movement]: economic. Papers and correspondence on European economic policy, with correspondents including: Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams [Joint Secretary of the UEM]; Sir Harold Butler. Papers include: note by LSA on sterling balances; proposals by [Stanley] Paul Chambers for the co-ordination of financial policy in Europe; draft Overseas Trade Committee resolutions on the dollar gap, and European Economic Conference resolution on overseas trade; UEM memorandum on free convertibility of European currencies.
1 file.

Jan 1949-Nov 1949

European Movement: Central and Eastern European Conference. Correspondence and papers on the conference, with correspondents including: Edward Beddington-Behrens, Chairman of the European Movement, on subjects including funding for the conference and its success (5); 1st Lord McGowan on the United Europe Movement [UEM], a proposed Anglo-American Council, and his appreciation of Winston Churchill [Prime Minister]. Papers include preparatory documents for and reports from the conference, on subjects including: economic policy; agricultural policy; the origins and activities of the European Movement; the movement of workers; social policy; cultural policy; industrial policy.
1 file.

Oct 1951-Mar 1952

UEM [United Europe Movement] and European Movement: memoranda and papers. Minutes and memoranda on subjects including: the economic potential of Europe; the future of the UEM; reconciling European commitments with Britain's links to the Commonwealth; the European Review; assistance to the cultural activities of East European exiles; European federation; a proposed European Defence Community and European Army. Also includes: balance sheet and accounts for the UEM, 1951-52; proof article by Robert Boothby, "The Road to Peace"; note from the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, protesting at shelter given by Britain to Czech exiles.
1 file.

Dec 1951-Oct 1953

UEM [United Europe Movement]: 1954 Conference. Correspondence and papers on the Second European Economic Conference in London, with correspondents including: Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, Secretary of the UEM (4); [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon], commenting on an article by [?] Edouard Giscard d'Estaing on British policy towards Europe, and European defence in particular; Edward Beddington-Behrens; John Dingle, London correspondent of la Croix (3); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]. Papers include: conference resolutions; text of a speech by LSA on the economic future of Europe; list of delegates; memorandum by Sir Cecil Kisch on monetary policy co-operation between the sterling area and other non-dollar currencies; report by Roy Harrod on Europe and the dollar problem; draft report by Julian Amery, based on LSA's paper, "Some elementary notes on trade and production".
1 file.

Sep 1953-Jan 1954

Statistical supplement. Statistics [from the Second European Economic Conference] on the impact of the freeing of trade between European countries on Commonwealth exports to and imports from OEEC countries [Organisation for European Economic Co-operation].
1 file.

c 1954

United Kingdom Council of the European Movement. Includes: correspondence between LSA and Edward Beddington-Behrens, Chairman of the Council, on the reorganisation of the council, with pamphlets and plans of action by Beddington-Behrens and Alfred Robens.
1 file.

Jul 1954-Feb 1955

Speeches. Texts, drafts and speaking notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: tributes to Cecil Rhodes; economic policy, particularly on Commonwealth trade and Imperial Preference; tribute to J L Garvin; the place of the Commonwealth in the world; Indian constitutional development over the war years; the poet Horace; tribute to 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr] and the Lothian Lecturer, Ernest Manning, Premier of Alberta [Canada]; the Crown and Africa; tribute to Chaim Weizmann; Europe, the pound and the dollar; ELEC [European League for Economic Co-operation] and the dollar gap; foreign affairs, including Palestine, Egypt and Central Africa. Also includes related correspondence, with correspondents including: Sir Gerald Campbell, Deputy Chairman of the Royal Empire Society (2); [Ferdinand] Stephen Joelson, Director of East Africa Limited; Charles Ponsonby, Chairman of the Royal African Society.
3 files.

Jan 1953-Dec 1953

Speeches. Texts, drafts and speaking notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: tribute to Sir [Harold] Leslie Boyce; Empire or Commonwealth; the place of the Commonwealth in the world; Imperial Preference; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; tributes to 1st Lord Simon and Francis Pember, former Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; Canada and the Empire; Chaim Weizmann and Manchester's contribution to the cause of Zionism; the centenary of 1st Lord Milner's birth; the United Europe Movement conference and relations between the European economy and the Commonwealth. Also includes related correspondence, with correspondents including: Sir Harry Batterbee, Royal Empire Society; Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, Director of the London School of Economics (3); Humphry Berkeley, Political Education Officer, Conservative Political Centre; Doris Morden, Chairman of the Canadian Women's Club (5); John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College (2); Sir [Herbert] Edmund Craster, Fellow of All Souls College; Sir Cecil Kisch; 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary, Rhodes Trust].
2 files.

Jan 1954-Jun 1955

Broadcasts. Transcripts of broadcasts contributed to by LSA on subjects including: tribute to Sir Winston Churchill, with LSA recalling Churchill at Harrow School; tribute to 1st Lord Milner, with LSA recalling Milner in the First World War and the reasons for his failure to become a popular leader; tribute to 1st Lord Curzon, with LSA recalling why Curzon did not become Prime Minister after Andrew Bonar Law's resignation in 1923.
1 file.

Mar 1955-Apr 1955

Broadcasts. Texts, prints and transcripts of broadcasts by or contributed to by LSA on subjects including: tributes to Sir Winston Churchill; why 1st Lord Curzon did not become Prime Minister after Andrew Bonar Law's resignation in 1923; LSA's recollections of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, former Premier of Canada; Kingsley Fairbridge and the Fairbridge Schools; Louis Botha, former Premier of South Africa, as an Imperial statesman; LSA's recollections of 1st Lord Milner and the reasons for his failure to become a popular leader; tributes to Cecil Rhodes; tribute to Chaim Weizmann. Also includes related correspondence, with correspondents including: Roger Cary, Producer, BBC Overseas Talks (3).
1 file.

May 1953-Mar 1955

Cecil Rhodes Memorial. Correspondence on the unveiling ceremony for the plaque to Cecil Rhodes at Westminster Abbey [London], particularly on invitations and LSA's address in tribute to Rhodes, with correspondents including: Lennox Broster; [Ferdinand] Stephen Joelson, Director of East Africa Limited; Sir Dougal Malcolm, President of the British South Africa Company (3); Alan Don, Dean of Westminster (3); J B Ross, Secretary and Deputy to the High Commissioner for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland [later Zimbabwe and Malawi] (4); Oliver Dawnay, Private Secretary and Equerry to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary, Rhodes Trust] (2). Also includes: invitation list; order of service for unveiling of the memorial; cuttings; text of LSA's tribute; minutes of the London committee for the Rhodes Centenary celebrations.
1 file.

Oct 1953-Dec 1953

The Fairbridge Society. Correspondence on LSA's appeal on behalf of the Fairbridge Farm Schools [Kingsley Fairbridge's schools in Australia for deprived children], with correspondents including: Sir Thomas White, High Commissioner for Australia, in London; W R Vaughan, Director of the Fairbridge Society (8); Sir Charles Hambro, Chairman of the Fairbridge Society (3); Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. Also includes: speaking notes and draft text for LSA's broadcast appeal.
1 file.

Jan 1954-Mar 1954

Blanche Dugdale Memorial: correspondence. Correspondents on the memorial to be erected in Israel include: Alice, Lady Ferguson; Nancy Mackinnon, Secretary of the Anglo-Israel Association (19); Pembroke Wicks, Registrar of the Architects Registration Council; Eva, Lady Reading (2); Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain (2); Pamela, Lady Lytton; Lady Megan Lloyd-George; Israel Sieff; James de Rothschild; Selig Brodetsky; Sir [Alexander] Frederick Whyte; Colin Coote, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post. Also includes: report by Michael Dugdale on the site of the memorial; minutes of the memorial committee; list of contributors.
1 file.

Mar 1952-Sep 1955

Rhodes/Beit/Jameson Centenary Committee. Papers and correspondence on celebrations for the joint centenary of the births of Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit and Sir Leander Jameson, with correspondents including: Sir [Richard] Gordon Munro, High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] in London (2); 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] (2); 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary of the Rhodes Trust] (3); Kenneth Goodenough, High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia (3); Sir Dougal Malcolm [President of the British South Africa Company]. Papers include: article by Violet, Lady Milner on Rhodes; committee minutes; preliminary report and estimates for the Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition.
1 file.

Jan 1951-Aug 1953

Reviews and prefaces. Texts and cuttings of reviews and introductions by LSA for books by other writers, including: "The Gathering Storm", volume 1 of Winston Churchill's "The Second World War"; "The South African Opposition", by Michael Roberts [Professor of Modern History, Rhodes University, South Africa] and A E G Trollip; "British Declaration of Independence" by Henry Drummond-Wolff; an address on the poet Horace by 1st Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham]; "The Prime Minister", by Anthony Trollope; pamphlet on bulk purchasing by the state, by Ronald Russell, Research Secretary of the Empire Economic Union; "A Climber in Wales" by [Frank] Showell Styles; "J L Garvin, a memoir" by Katharine Garvin; "The Delectable Mountains" by Douglas Busk; "Harrow School, Yesterday and Today" by E Laborde; "Palestine Mission" by Richard Crossman [Member, Anglo-American Palestine Commission, 1946]; "The Odes of Horace", translated by 18th Lord Dunsany [earlier Edward Plunkett]; "The Colonial Office from Within" by Sir [Arthur] Cosmo Parkinson, former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; "Imperial Preference", by Ronald Russell; "The British Commonwealth" ["Commonwealth britannique"] by Professor Raymond Ronze; "The Life of Neville Chamberlain" by Keith Feiling [Chichele Professor of Modern History, Oxford]; "The Vision of Cecil Rhodes", by Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees. Also includes related correspondence, with correspondents including: Milward Burge, London Editor of Empire Digest; Michael Sadleir; Edward Gilman; Eduard Fraenkel [Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, Oxford University]; Sir Edward Marsh; Henry Garwood; Sir Eugen Millington-Drake (2); Cuthbert Alport, Director of the Conservative Political Centre.
1 file.

Jan 1947-Oct 1948

Reviews and prefaces. Texts and cuttings of reviews and introductions by LSA for books by other writers, including: "Stanley Baldwin" by George Young; "The Founding of the Second British Empire" by Vincent Harlow; "Retrospect", by 1st Lord Simon; "A Half Century of Netherlands Alpinism" by the Netherlands Alpine Association; "The Jameson Raid", by Jean van der Poel [led by Sir Leander Jameson in the Transvaal, South Africa, 1895]; "Lord Milner and the Empire" by Vladimir Halperin; "Sketches from Life" by Percival Witherby; "Reflections on the Constitution" by Harold Laski; "The Science and Art of Government" by 1st Lord Hankey; "With Milner in South Africa" by Lionel Curtis; "Climbs in the Canadian Rockies", by Frank Smythe; "The Prime Minister", by Anthony Trollope; "The Early Alpine Guides", by Ronald Clark; "Mandates, Dependencies and Trusteeships", by H Duncan Hall; "Can Parliament Survive?" by [Maurice] Christopher Hollis; "Commonwealth" by Henry Drummond-Wolff; "Preferences and Western Europe" by Ronald Russell [Research Secretary, Empire Economic Union]; "Jean Antoine Carrel" by Attilio Viriglio; the autobiography of Kingsley Fairbridge. Also includes related correspondence, with correspondents including: Thomas Graham-Brown, Editor of the Alpine Journal; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher to the University of Oxford; Ronald Russell (2).
1 file.

Nov 1926-Nov 1952

Grand Lodge. Correspondence on LSA's membership of the Freemasons, with correspondents including: Sydney White, Grand Secretary, United Grand Lodge of England (9); Sir Ernest Cooper, Master Elect of the Royal Colonial Institute Lodge and Secretary of the Canada Lodge (3); James Milner, Master Elect of the new Welcome Lodge.
1 file.

Mar 1942-Feb 1954

Canadian British Education Committee. Correspondence on the formation and work of the Committee to encourage British students to study in Canada, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; [Henry] Harold Hemming, Chairman of the Committee (7); Gilbert Flemming, Ministry of Education (3). Also includes: minutes; annual report for 1949.
1 file.

Jul 1948-Jun 1951

British School of Archaeology at Athens [Greece]. Papers including: agendas and minutes of the Managing Committee of the School, and annual reports, 1940-47, with an article on archaeology in Greece, 1939-45, by Thomas Dunbabin, Deputy Director; correspondence between LSA and [Benedict] Humphrey Sumner, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, on LSA's membership of the Committee as the representative of All Souls; letter from Professor Bernard Ashmole, Chairman of the Committee, welcoming LSA.
1 file.

1940-Nov 1953

Yugoslav Society of Great Britain. Correspondence, mainly between LSA and Leonard Green, Chairman of the society, on subjects including LSA becoming President of the society, meetings, funds, criticism by Green of King Peter II of Yugoslavia's dictatorial actions, and winding up the society. Other correspondents include: Katharine, Duchess of Atholl [President of the Yugoslav Aid Committee]; Vane Ivanovic, Chairman of the Benevolent Association of Free Citizens of Yugoslavia (4); [Edward] Hugh Dalton, President of the Board of Trade, refusing permission for the society to buy relief clothing for Yugoslavia; 1st Lord Croft [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War]; Canon John Douglas, General Secretary, Church of England Council on Foreign Relations; H P Hodder, Secretary of the society (3); [Robert] Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary [later 1st Lord Avon] (2); Sir Thomas Cook, Vice-Chairman of the society; Alfred Longden, Director of Fine Art, for the British Council. Also includes: memorandum by Dr Dragoila Popovich on displaced Yugoslavs and the International Refugee Organisation; memoranda on the Benevolent Association of Free Citizens of Yugoslavia; text of speech by LSA, given as President of the Yugoslav Society; report by Yugoslav refugees on conditions in their refugee camp in Germany; text of the sermon given by the Dean of Westminster [Paul de Labilliere] at a thanksgiving service for the liberation of Belgrade; texts of addresses by Drago Marusic, Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, and LSA, following the thanksgiving service.
1 file.

Dec 1941-Apr 1952

Enemy aliens: correspondence. Correspondence on the treatment of enemy aliens, with correspondents include: Sir Andrew McFadyean (5); Brendan Bracken, Minister of Information; Elisabeth Burjan, on her attempts to find work in the Ministry of Information, as an Austrian, and requesting that her status as an enemy alien should be changed (10); Osbert Peake [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, later 1st Lord Ingleby] (4); Francis Graham-Harrison [Private Secretary to Peake] (3); 1st Lord McGowan, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited [ICI], on whether ICI would employ an enemy alien (3); Luca Gutmann, on his attempts to find work (5); Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi [President of the Paneuropean Union]; Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary; W J Monson (3).
1 file.

Jul 1940-Jun 1944

Slovene folklore: correspondence. Correspondence between LSA and Mrs Fanny Copeland on her pamphlet "Some Aspects of Slovene Folk-Lore", with a copy of the pamphlet.
1 file.

Dec 1952-Jan 1953

Yugoslav generals. Correspondence on bringing 38 senior Yugoslav generals exiled in Germany to Britain, with correspondents including: Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, President of the Yugoslav Aid Committee; Fanny Copeland; Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, Vice-Chairman and Secretary, Refugees Defence Committee, and Vice-Chairman of the Council for New Era of Emigration (3); Sir [James] Arthur Salter.
1 file.

Jun 1950-Jun 1955

Balkan exiles. Correspondence, mainly on individual cases of Yugoslav refugees looking for employment, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada, and earlier Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre] on handing over Yugoslav generals accused of collaboration to the current Government of Yugoslavia, and the repatriation of Yugoslavs who had fought for Germany; Christopher Mayhew, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the Yugoslav generals; Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary] (4); [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] (6); Katharine, Duchess of Atholl [Chairman of the British League for European Freedom and of the Yugoslav Aid Committee] (4); Leonard Green, Chairman of the Yugoslav Society; Sir Orme Sargent [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] (4); Sir William Strang [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] (3); Julian Amery; Sir Ronald Adam, Chairman of the British Council (2); Sir William Haley [Director-General of the BBC]; 1st Lord Schuster, Director Legal Division, Allied Commission for Austria (British Element); Negley Farson; Arthur Rouse, Ministry of Labour and National Service; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; John Murray, Principal of the University College of the South West of England (2); 1st Lord Hacking, Vice-President of the Travel Association; Madeleine Tupanjanin (8); 1st Lord Camrose, Chairman of the Daily Telegraph [earlier William Berry]; 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary, Rhodes Trust] (2); H P Hodder, Secretary of the Yugoslav Society of Great Britain (3); Milivoje Gavrilovitch (11); Sir Frank Spickernell, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited [ICI]; 1st Lord Catto, Governor of the Bank of England; Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye [Vice-Chief of Imperial General Staff]; Ralph Stevenson [British Ambassador to Yugoslavia]; Hector McNeil [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; Ivan Subotic, former Yugoslav Ambassador to Britain (3); Richard Law [Minister of State, Foreign Office, later 1st Lord Coleraine]; Slobodan Yovanovitch, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia; Sir Bede Clifford. Also includes: material on Florence Amery's appeal on behalf of Yugoslav refugees, 1948, with letters from Sir Patrick Hannon (5), Geoffrey Wallinger, Foreign Office, Leonard Green (2), Katharine, Duchess of Atholl (4), Harold Buxton, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Sir Robert Rankin, 1st Lord Fairhaven [earlier (Urban) Huttleston Broughton], John Murray, and Vukosav Tupanjanin (5); memorandum by Slobodan Yovanovitch on the refugee problem.
3 files.

May 1941-Mar 1953

Rhodes Trust: correspondence. Correspondence, mainly between LSA (as senior Trustee) and 1st Lord Elton, General Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, on subjects including grants awarded by the Trust, finding a biographer for Cecil Rhodes, publishing a history of the Trust for its jubilee, Commonwealth students at the London House hall of residence [later Goodenough College], articles by the Trustees (particularly LSA) in the American Oxonian, the Rhodes Scholars Jubilee Reunion, taking Rhodes Scholars from Germany, the Rhodes Trust Bill, the Empire Youth Movement, and Indian Rhodes Scholarships. Other correspondents include: Geoffrey Sargeant, Director of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town [South Africa] (3); John Lowe, Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, on subjects including passing on a request by Robert Blake, Tutor in Politics, Christ Church, to write Rhodes's biography, and on new Trustees (5); Robert Blake; Sir Harold Hartley on a Commonwealth and Empire conference organised by the Duke of Edinburgh; Frank Aydelotte [American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees] on subjects including the American Oxonian (5); Paul Havens, Editor of the American Oxonian (3); 1st Lord Freyberg; Sir David Smith, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand; Edgar Williams, Warden of Rhodes House; John Colville [Joint Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister] (2); Sir Dougal Malcolm; Violet, Lady Milner (3); Sir Francis Wylie on German Rhodes scholarships (2); Vincent Harlow [Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth, Oxford]; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Edward Grigg] on subjects including Kenyan scholarships (4); Sir Carleton Allen, Warden of Rhodes House, on subjects including his retirement (3); Professor William Macmillan; 2nd Lord Baldwin of Bewdley (2); 2nd Lord Devonport, Chairman of the Kingsley Fairbridge Memorial [earlier Gerald Kearley] (2); [Daniel] Roland Michener, commenting on the recent Canadian elections (1949); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (2); Sir Edward Peacock, on subjects including appointing new Trustees (4); Geoffrey Dawson [earlier Geoffrey Robinson]; Sir Girja Bajpai [Secretary to Government of India Department of Education, Health, and Lands] on Indian Rhodes Scholarships. Also includes: text of LSA's foreword to the History of the Trust; annual reports; text of speech by LSA at the Rhodes Scholars Jubilee Reunion Dinner, with other papers on the joint jubilee and Cecil Rhodes centenary; text of LSA's tribute to Sir Francis Wylie; article by Carleton Allen on the German Rhodes Scholars; text of LSA's speech at the Rhodes Trustees Dinner on the legacy of Cecil Rhodes and the future of the next generation.
4 files.

Jun 1929-Aug 1955

Rhodes Trust: reports. Reports (numbers 380, 394, 398 and 414) giving financial statements and details of projects funded by the Public Purposes Fund and Scholarship Fund, and the Trust in South Africa.
1 file.

Jul 1947-Jul 1954

Rhodes Trust: legislation, booklets. Includes: print of the will of Cecil Rhodes, with the Rhodes Estate Act (1916) and Rhodes Trust Act (1929); minutes of the House of Lords Personal Bills Committee, covering the Rhodes Trust Bill, 1946, and print of the Rhodes Trust Act, 1946, with drafts of the Bill; reports on the Trust; booklet on Cecil Rhodes by Graham Hutchison.
1 file.

Jul 1944-Mar 1946

Rhodes Trust: Rhodes Scholarships. Includes: yearly statements on the academic year, 1943-50; record of the Association of Rhodes Scholars in Australia, 1947; booklet on Cecil Rhodes and Rhodes House, Oxford; biographical booklet on Cecil Rhodes, by Ronald Currey.
1 file.

1943–1950

House of Lords reform: correspondence. Correspondents on legislation to reform the House of Lords include: 5th Lord Salisbury [Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council, earlier Lord Cranborne], particularly on life peerages (8); Lord Balfour of Burleigh (4); 1st Lord Simon, on his Life Peers Bill (2); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Julian Amery; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, on LSA's decision not to accept a peerage. Also includes: memorandum by LSA on suggested reforms; volumes of Hansard covering debates on Lord Simon's Life Peers Bill in the House of Lords.
1 file.

Dec 1951-Jun 1955

Filming of the opening of Parliament: correspondence and cuttings. Correspondence between LSA, officials of the Commonwealth Relations Office and Charles Orr-Ewing, on Orr-Ewing's suggestion that the re-opening of the House of Commons should be filmed, for the sake of relations with the Commonwealth and United States.
1 file.

Aug 1950

All Souls, Balliol: correspondence. Correspondence relating to LSA's fellowships of All Souls College and Balliol College, University of Oxford, particularly elections for the Wardenship of All Souls, and an appeal for the Balliol war memorial, with correspondents including: Michael Dummett; John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls (4); Norman Gibbs; A L Rowse on elections for a new Warden of All Souls, and whether LSA should be Sub-Warden (2); 1st Lord Simon on the election (2); John Lowe, Dean of Christ Church College and Rhodes Trustee; Carleton Allen, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford (2); Sir [Herbert] Edmund Craster, on whether LSA should serve as Sub-Warden of All Souls; Anthony Berry, President, Oxford University Conservative Association; [Arthur] Paul Dean, President, Oxford University Conservative Association (2); [Benjamin] Ifor Evans, Principal of Queen Mary College (University of London); Lionel Curtis; 1st Lord Lindsay of Birker, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, on subjects including the college war memorial appeal (6); Sir Ralegh Phillpotts; Philip Wilbraham; Sir Lancelot Graham; Sir John Hope Simpson; 2nd Lord Goschen; Sir Claud Russell; [Benedict] Humphrey Sumner, Warden of All Souls (2); Ernest Jacob, Bursar of All Souls; Robert Lee; Anthony Bevir, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Arthur Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester; Sir Dougal Malcolm (2).
1 file.

Aug 1944-May 1955

Proportional Representation. Correspondence, particularly with John Fitzgerald, Secretary of the Proportional Representation Society and Thomas Harvey, with pamphlets on proportional representation, including quotations from Winston Churchill, 1931-43, and an analysis of the 1945 General Election.
1 file.

Jun 1945-Mar 1949

Income Tax reform: Lady Rhys-Williams' scheme. Correspondence and papers on a memorandum by Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams [Vice-President, Economic Research Council] on income tax reform, with correspondents including: Lady Rhys-Williams (3); Reginald Maudling, Conservative Research Department; Sir Hubert Henderson. Also includes: copy of Lady Rhys-Williams's memorandum, annotated by LSA, with revised version, comments from the Conservative Research Department and further calculations based on the original memorandum; text of an article by LSA on tax reform.
1 file.

Jun 1948-Apr 1949

Current politics: miscellaneous notes. Conservative Research Department pamphlets and other publications on subjects including: the Conservative Party Conference, 1949; the Iron and Steel Bill, 1948; finance, trade and industry under the Labour Government; the earnings of industry; nationalization; Conservative policy in the 1950 General Election; the housing shortage; social and general policy under the Labour Government; Conservative Imperial policy; recent developments in the Empire (1949); points on trade and Imperial Preference; Conservative agricultural policy. Also includes: cuttings; pamphlet on steel policy by John Maclay, Vice-Chairman of the National Liberal Organisation [later 1st Lord Muirshiel]; report of a speech by Sir Andrew Duncan on the Iron and Steel Bill; prints of speeches by Winston Churchill, Leader of the Conservative Party, on Conservative policy; pamphlet by Aubrey Jones [British Iron and Steel Federation] on the nationalisation of the steel industry.
2 files.

1947–1950

Commonwealth relations. Correspondence, papers and cuttings on the 1948 and 1951 Conferences of Commonwealth Prime Ministers and particularly the position of India, with correspondents including: Sir Clive Baillieu on LSA's role in promoting Commonwealth unity; Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, on keeping India in the Commonwealth (2); Winston Churchill [Leader of the Opposition] on not being embittered by the past [on India] and the need to save what they could from the wreck (2); Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] on the 1951 conference (3); 1st Lord Jowitt, Lord Chancellor, on keeping a relationship between the Crown and India and Ireland's refusal to enter the Commonwealth (2); Sir Eric Machtig [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]. Also includes: text of a statement by Attlee, on the proposed conference in London, January 1951, with notes on the meeting; press cuttings on India retaining its full membership of the Commonwealth; suggested formula by LSA for inclusion in the new Indian constitution, on India's status within the Commonwealth; summaries of statements by the Indian Government; issue of Hansard covering a House of Lords debate on Commonwealth relations, February 1948; rough notes for [? LSA's memoirs]; print of an article by Robert Menzies, former Prime Minister of Australia, on the unity of the Commonwealth.
1 file.

Feb 1948-Nov 1950

Colonial memoranda. Memoranda produced by the Information Department of the Colonial Office, and articles written by Sir William McLean, Colonial Office on subjects including: the political, economic and social development of the British colonies; advanced colonial constitutions (Barbados, Jamaica, Malta, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], Singapore and Trinidad); international colonial co-operation; colonial constitutional changes, 1940-50; development of food resources in the British colonies; hydro-electric schemes; the development of labour legislation and trade unionism in the colonies; British Government publications of colonial interest; capital development; recent developments in Malaya [later Malaysia]; British colonial policy; Imperial Preference and the British colonies; social welfare in the colonies; colonial affairs in Parliament; fundamental principles of the constitutional economic and social development of the British dependencies; education in the colonies. Also includes: texts of articles and letters to the press by LSA on colonial subjects, particularly the German colonial claim.
1 file.

May 1936-Mar 1950

Budget 1950: National Review article and material. Typescript and proof of LSA's article on Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's 1950 Budget, "Financing for Disaster", with background material including extracts from the Economist, Conservative Research Department notes, Government statements on national income and expenditure, 1946-48, and an article by Sir Hubert Henderson on the problem of cutting public spending.
1 file.

Mar 1949-Jan 1950

Citizen Service League and Army League: correspondence. Correspondence between LSA (as Chairman) and representatives of the Leagues including 1st Lord Iliffe, President, (6), 1st Lord Willingdon, Vice-President [earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] and 17th Lord Derby, Vice-President [earlier Lord Stanley] (7) on subjects including funding and membership of the committee. . Other correspondents include: [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], declining to take part in the National Service League or to attend a meeting (3); 2nd Lord Selborne on National Service in times of crisis; [Charles] Geoffrey Vickers, Chairman of the Association for Service and Reconstruction, on widening the Citizen Service League's aims on National Service and more universal training (2); Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, on militia training for anti-aircraft units; Sir Douglas Hacking, Chairman of the Conservative Party, warning that holding meetings to promote conscription might stir up opposition to it; 1st Lord Hankey on his opposition to permanent National Service; Osbert Peake [later 1st Lord Ingleby]; 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] on subjects including signing the Declaration on National Service (5); Sir Cuthbert Headlam; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Chatfield [Minister for Co-ordination of Defence]; Winston Churchill, declining to sign LSA's Declaration as he hoped for stronger measures; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken], promising support from the Daily Express (2); Edward Beddington-Behrens; Arthur Ingram, Bishop of London; Sir Harry Hague.
1 file.

Oct 1938-Nov 1946

Citizen Service League papers. Includes: prints of speeches and articles by LSA [as Chairman of the League] on defence loans and national service, including a debate with 1st Lord Snell; booklet on the case for citizen service universal training; League programme, manifesto and policy declaration; memorandum and articles of association for the Army League.
1 file.

Nov 1938-Apr 1939

Gray, Pro Patria Association. Correspondence, mainly between LSA (as Chairman of the Citizen Service League) and Guy Gray, Chairman of the Pro Patria Association, on Gray's involving the Citizen Service League in his campaign for National Service, Universal Defence Training and a Youth Service Corps. Other correspondents include Herwald Ramsbotham [President of the Board of Education, later 1st Lord Soulbury] on encouraging the Youth Service Corps after the war.
1 file.

Nov 1940-Feb 1941

Army League: cadet mountaineering. Correspondence on cadet mountaineering courses supported by the Army League, between LSA (as Chairman of the Army League) and correspondents including: Major-General 2nd Lord Bridgeman, Chairman of the Army Cadet Force Association (6); George Dummett, British Mountaineering Council (5); W F L Newcombe, Secretary of the Army Cadet Force Association (4); Emanuel Shinwell, Secretary of State for War; Thomas Brocklebank (3); Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish Centre of Outdoor Training, Glenmore Lodge; M K Brown, Secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation (3); Field Marshal 1st Lord Wilson, President of the Army Cadet Force Association (2); Frederick Spencer-Chapman [Organising Secretary of the Outward Bound Trust]. Also includes: report on a Army Cadet Force course; report and minutes of the Army League council of management; War Office notes on the courses; memorandum by LSA on Army requirements for ground troops and National Service.
1 file.

Jan 1948-Jul 1949

Citizen Service League and Army League: memoranda and articles. Papers and correspondence, including: minutes of the Army League council and committee meetings; correspondence between LSA (as Chairman of the Army League), J E Coventon, Secretary and 1st Lord Iliffe [President]; notes on the Army League official memorandum; questions and reflections on defence planning, by Basil Liddell-Hart; notes by LSA on future warfare; outline of the Citizen Service League's proposals for universal training; print of an address by LSA, as Chairman of the Citizen Service League; Army League manifesto, with press release; memorandum by Edward Beddington-Behrens on the aims of the Army League; memorandum on the future of the Army League; prints and texts of articles by LSA on National Service; notes by LSA on army reform. Other correspondents include: Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War; Basil Liddell-Hart; Edward Beddington-Behrens; Herbert Williams.
2 files.

Mar 1937-Sep 1955

Army League: minutes, correspondence, reports. Papers and correspondence, mainly between LSA (as Chairman) and other representatives of the Army League, including Edward Beddington-Behrens (4) and 1st Lord Iliffe, President, with other correspondents including: General Sir Montagu Stopford, Chairman of the Army Cadet Force Association (2); Major-General John Latter, Chairman of the Combined Cadet Force Association, on mountaineering courses (2); Major-General 2nd Lord Bridgeman, Deputy President of the Army Cadet Force Association, on subjects including funding and mountaineering courses (4); Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker, on subjects including training (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell on numbers of administrative staff in the army and modern military requirements (3); Basil Liddell-Hart; Emanuel Shinwell, Secretary of State for War, on National Service, and not being able to restrict it to the Territorial Army; Lieutenant-General Sir Giffard Martel on the future of conscription and Cold War defence (3); Reginald Paget (2); Otho Prior-Palmer (2); Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of Imperial General Staff, on pay for National Service and the Foreign Legion, and his comments on LSA's view of army requirements (2). Also includes memoranda on subjects including: the Suez Canal Zone [Egypt]; the balance between provision of military equipment and men; recruiting an army from Africa, by Julian Amery; the form of army required by Britain; comments by Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker on the defence estimates; comments by Sir Desmond Morton on a Home Defence article by Basil Liddell-Hart; observations on contemporary Russian behaviour; the task of the British Army (with comments by Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell); the increasing numbers of senior staff at the War Office ("Tophamper") and the review by the Templer Committee; quickening manoeuvres and gaining flexibility, by Basil Liddell-Hart; what size of army is needed, with comments by General Lindsell; the role of the army, by General Lindsell; the part played by British land forces in world defence and Britain's defence problem, by Major-General John Fuller; comments from German soldiers on the present military situation and military training; Cold War defence, with comments by Generals Tuker and Lindsell and Reginald Paget; comparisons between British and Soviet divisions, by Liddell-Hart; defence of the Middle East; Western defence, by General Martel; army requirements and army reform, by LSA.
2 files.

Dec 1948-Jul 1953

Army League: cuttings, pamphlets. Includes: press cuttings on defence matters, including a Times supplement on the Territorial Army; memoranda by LSA on the most efficient economic method of warfare and the task of the British Army; review of the first year of NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), by General Dwight D Eisenhower [Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Forces in Europe]; copy of the Army Estimates, 1952-53, with a related memorandum and statement by Antony Head, Secretary of State for War, and the Minister of Defence [1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough], annotated by LSA; report by French officers on the structure of a modern army; Conservative Central Office notes on defence policy; issue of the journal of the United Service Institution of India, 1945; issues of Hansard covering the debate on the Army Estimates (1952-53 and 1949-50) and other defence debates (February 1951); memoranda by Major-General Francis Tuker on the effects of air power and nuclear energy in warfare.
2 files.

Dec 1944-Oct 1952

Suez Canal. Correspondence and papers on the Suez Canal Committee, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Vansittart on his fears about finding an accommodation with Egypt and the Suez Canal Committee (2); 1st Lord Bruce of Melbourne (3); Charles Waterhouse on Conservative policy over Suez, and the repercussions for the Sudan; 2nd Lord Hailsham [earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain, on LSA's proposal to declare Suez and Sinai a trustee zone, administered by Britain (2); 1st Lord Winster [earlier Reginald Fletcher] (2); John Morrison [later 1st Lord Margadale] (3); 2nd Lord Rennell [earlier Francis Rodd]; Arthur Harvey; Robert Ryder; 1st Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope on subjects including the defeatist attitude towards defending the Canal Zone and its importance (2); Sir Wilfrid Lindsell; [Edward] Henry Legge-Bourke, on a re-occupation of Egypt, the state of forces in the Canal Zone, the precarious position of General Mohammed Neguib [President of Egypt] and British security in the Middle East (2); 1st Lord Alanbrooke [earlier Sir Alan Brooke]; Ian Horobin; Donald Anderson; Kenneth de Courcy; 1st Lord Rotherwick [Director of the Suez Canal Company, earlier Herbert Cayzer]; Lord Hinchingbrooke [later 10th Lord Sandwich, then (Alexander) Victor Montagu]; 3rd Lord Cromer [earlier Lord Errington]; Christopher Holland-Martin. Also includes: note from the European Review on the issue of sovereignty over the canal; draft press releases on concerns about the withdrawing British troops from the Canal Zone; lists of those invited to the Suez Canal Committee; note by Richard Meinertzhagen [former Chief Political Officer in Palestine and Syria, and Military Adviser to the Colonial Office's Middle East Department] on British policy towards the Canal; draft letter from LSA to 1st Lord Hankey on the Committee's increasing anxiety about the Canal; notes by Julian Amery on the importance of the Canal Zone and negotiations with Egypt, and on discussions of the Suez Canal Committee; press release from a meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers on subjects including Suez (1953); press cuttings.
1 file.

Jun 1951-May 1954

The Constitution. Correspondence and papers on constitutional issues, with correspondents including: John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Central Office, on the Italian constitution; Kenneth Wheare, Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford (2); "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne] on the South African constitution; Sir Charles Rey, former Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate [later Botswana] on the South African constitutional crisis; Sir David Keir (2); Lord Eustace Percy; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley] on reconstruction of Government. Also includes: Commonwealth Relations Office note on the constitutional position of the Australian states; press cuttings; article and lecture by Kenneth Wheare on the British constitution in 1947 and the machinery of government; article by [Philip] Nicholas Mansergh, Abe Bailey Research Professor of British Commonwealth Relations at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, on the Crown and changing Commonwealth; Conservative Political Centre survey of the history and powers of the House of Lords, with notes and annotations by LSA; memorandum by LSA on the nature of the constitution; papers on the constitutional significance of delegated legislation and the place of Parliament in the legislative process, by John Griffith, Lecturer in Administrative Law, University of London; lecture on monarchy and the party system, by Sir Lewis Namier; print of correspondence between 1st Lord Byng, Governor-General of Canada, and [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, on the dissolution of the Canadian Parliament, 1926; Dominions Office memorandum on the constitutional crisis in New South Wales, Australia, 1925-26; paper by Sir Henry Badeley [Clerk of the Parliaments] on the House of Lords as a second chamber; paper by Richard Fitzgerald [Reader in English Law, University College, London] on reform of the House of Lords; rough notes by LSA; article by T E Utley [Peter Utley] on the political mandate; Colonial Office paper on the organisation of the colonial service.
3 files.

Jun 1926-Mar 1953

Conservative Research Office. Correspondence between LSA and representatives of the Conservative Research Department and Central Office on Conservative Party business, including: John Biggs-Davison (3); 1st Lord Woolton, Party Chairman [earlier Frederick Marquis] on subjects including the 1950 General Election and LSA's offer to stand as an MP (5); Sir Eric Errington, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of Conservative and Unionist Associations; Peter Goldman [Head of Home Affairs Section, Conservative Research Department]; Percy Cohen [Joint Director, Conservative Research Department] (2); Cuthbert Alport, Director of the Conservative Political Centre; James Thomas, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party, [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] on subjects including LSA standing as an MP (5); Bernard Braine; Marjorie Maxse, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party (6); Sir Robert Cary (2); John Profumo on Party broadcasts; Mary Hornyold-Strickland [Chairman, National Union of Conservative Associations] on LSA's speeches on Empire matters; Sir Alan Herbert; Sir Bernard Paget; Ralph Assheton, Chairman of the Conservative Party [later 1st Lord Clitheroe] (4); R A Butler [Chairman of the Conservative Research Department] on a pamphlet by LSA on the future of Conservative policy (2); 1st Lord Marchwood, Treasurer of the Conservative Party [earlier (Frederick) George Penny]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; 2nd Lord Goschen; Sir Herbert Williams. Also includes: extract of statements by the Ulster Unionist Council and 1st Lord Morley, Lord President of the Council, on the army crisis in Ulster [Northern Ireland] in 1914; report on the Party organisation; Conservative memoranda for speakers, 1947; memorandum by Sir Robert Cary on reorganising the Shadow Cabinet; text of speech by Ralph Assheton on the future of the Conservative Party.
1 file.

Nov 1944-May 1955

Press cuttings and reports. Pamphlets, cuttings and rough notes by LSA for [?] his memoirs, including an issue of Hansard covering a debate on the Civil Aviation Bill (1943) and Times reviews of the year for 1949 and 1950.
1 file.

Jun 1943-Mar 1955

Articles, memoranda, reviews. Texts and cuttings of articles by LSA on subjects including: Central African Federation; Kenya (as LSA's foreword to "Before the White Man in Kenya", by Christopher Wilson); tribute to David Lloyd George and Sir Winston Churchill as war leaders (as LSA's contribution to "Winston Spencer Churchill, Servant of Crown and Commonwealth"); Commonwealth trade (as LSA's reply to an article by Roy Harrod on Commonwealth co-operation); some elementary notes on trade and production; LSA's review of "Churchill by his contemporaries"; the origins of tension between the Boers and English speaking minority in South Africa; the centenary of Cecil Rhodes; LSA's review of an autobiography by Violet Markham [Violet Carruthers]; the constitution (for the second edition of LSA's "Thoughts on the Constitution"); LSA's review of Andre Maurois's biography of Cecil Rhodes.
2 files.

Feb 1953-Dec 1953

Articles, memoranda, reviews. Texts of articles by LSA on subjects including: the future of Cyprus, with a suggested draft constitution; LSA's review of "Government by Committee", by Kenneth Wheare [Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford]; racism and the colour problem, particularly in South Africa; tributes to Sir Winston Churchill, including LSA's foreword to "The Young Winston Churchill" by John Marsh; the change in Conservative policy on Imperial economic co-operation (for the Empire Industries Association bulletin); Marks and Spencer; LSA's review of Herbert Morrison's "Survey from the Inside" on the working of Government and Parliament; the Rhodes Trust; tributes to 1st Lord Milner, particularly for his work in South Africa; LSA's foreword to David James's biography of 1st Lord Roberts; Commonwealth economic co-operation; tribute to 1st Lord Simon; future warfare, particularly with airborne troops. Also includes related correspondence, with correspondents including: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher to the University of Oxford; Comar Wilson, Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa (4); Philip Brownrigg, Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa; Alfred Wadsworth, Editor of the Manchester Guardian; Dermot Morrah, Editor of the Round Table (2).
2 files.

Apr 1947-Jul 1955

Articles, memoranda, reviews. Texts of articles by LSA on subjects including: tribute to Sir Winston Churchill; racism and the colour problem, particularly in South Africa; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] and Imperial Preference (article for the Empire Industries Association).
1 file.

Mar 1954-Nov 1954

London House Trust: correspondence. Correspondence, minutes, reports and photographs on the London House Hall of Residence for Dominions students [later Goodenough College], for which LSA was a member of the Board of Governors. Correspondents include 1st Lord Portal of Hungerford, Chairman of the London House Trust, Lennox Broster, governor, Ernest Pepper, Warden and Secretary, 1st Lord Elton, General Secretary of the Rhodes Trust and Sir William Goodenough.
2 files.

Dec 1940-Aug 1955