The Papers of Leopold Amery

Copies of LSA's letters to Alfred Deakin [Prime Minister of Australia] on subjects including: the new organization of the Times; the visit of the American fleet to Australia and LSA's concern that Australia might look to the United States for defence in the Pacific; the state of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]'s Liberal Government; a secretariat for colonial affairs; the health of Joseph Chamberlain; pension reform; constitutional changes for the Empire, making self-governing members equal; the political effect of David Lloyd George's domestic affairs, the Asquiths' living arrangements with the dancer Maud Allan and the engagement of Winston Churchill [to Clementine Hozier]; the economic situation in Britain; the volatile state of the Balkans and aggressive German foreign policy; Imperial Preference and the attitudes of Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer], Churchill [President of the Board of Trade] and Arthur Balfour; Churchill's change of heart about supporting an early General Election; the 1910 General Election and LSA's defeat when standing as Parliamentary candidate for Bow and Bromley [London]; LSA's wedding to Florence Greenwood; the Parliament Bill; the Imperial Conference of 1911; the Home Rule Bill; the good effect of the visit from Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] in convincing the Government of the need for proper partnership within the Empire.

Also includes: letter from LSA to Pattie Deakin following Alfred Deakin's death.

Originals in the Deakin Papers at the University of Melbourne, Australia.