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The Papers of Enoch Powell

Title	Speeches and broadcasts
Reference	POLL 4/1
Covering Dates	1955–1995
Extent and Medium	26.5 boxes

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Annotated typescripts of speech texts and broadcasts by JEP, with some source material, mainly press cuttings.

Churchill/POLL 4/1 contains:

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: defence; the Labour Government's National Economic Plan (1965); price increases under Labour; strikes; National Savings; providing incentives in industrial and commercial life; Labour transport policy on roads, rail and London commuter rail services; inflation; the British view of the United States; immigration; taxation; Labour incomes and prices policy; the Budget (1965); the balance of trade; Labour public spending; renewing Conservative policy and the party organisation; nationalisation; damage done by giving financial aid to developing countries; the myth of Britain's national decline; Labour industrial policy; Labour housing policy; JEP's re-adoption as MP for Wolverhampton South-West [Staffordshire] and role as an MP; union wage negotiations and trade union law; civil aviation policy; education; politics and the investor; capitalism and free enterprise; the National Economic Development Council (Neddy); the 1964 General Election; development of the National Health Service; Broadmoor Hospital [Berkshire]; drug safety testing, including thalidomide; the National Incomes Commission; mental health provision and the ambulance service; humanisation of the hospital service; emigration of British doctors; hospital staffing and need for new hospital building; local government; relations with industry; the Mental Health Act. Also includes: letter from David Bruce [American Ambassador to Britain] on JEP's speech on England for the St George's Day Banquet (1961).
6 files.

Nov 1957-Sep 1965

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Labour prices and incomes policy; Conservatism; responsibility of the press; the wreck of the oil tanker Torrey Canyon; trades union closed shop policy and intimidation; Labour economic and housing targets; relations between the Labour Government and the unions; the nuclear deterrent; selection in education; the balance of payments deficit; Vietnam and Britain's role in South East Asia; North Sea gas and Labour's National Economic Plan; national insurance; Labour's defence spending and policy on NATO; exports; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; socialism, state control and Government intimidation; the Conservative Party's relations with the unions; Labour policy on productivity; the economic situation; the rule of law; Britain's defence role in Europe; Britain's loss of economic independence; Labour's military aircraft and arms policy; the Selective Employment Tax; the Territorial Army; Labour's policy on technological development; the 1966 Election and future Conservative vision; Britain's dependence on the United States; the need for Britain to concentrate on economic and military affairs; policy on the Commonwealth; the recovery and future of Europe; immigration; pensions; the Creed; Labour housing policy; inflation. Also includes: letters between JEP and Michael Foot on a mistaken reference made by JEP to Foot; extract from an address by John Davies, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry, on incomes policy; letters between JEP and [Arthur] Stephen Brown, President of the Confederation of British Industry, on a speech by Brown on the principles of the Confederation (text included); letter from Sir Hamilton Kerr, congratulating JEP on his speeches in support of Conservatism.
5 files.

Sep 1965-Apr 1967

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: relations between politicians and the press; free speech, particularly adverse reactions to JEP's speeches and intolerance shown by universities; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; housing policy; the world monetary system; the balance of payments deficit; reform of the House of Lords; Labour prices and incomes policy; taxation; nationalisation, particularly of the railways; Conservatism since 1951; trade union law; national unity, particularly on self-rule for Wales; Britain's military role in the 1970's; the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia and the balance of power in Europe; the fixed exchange and dirigisme; Conservatism and social problems; growth in public spending, particularly on education; Britain's place in the world, and relations with France; immigration (including 'Rivers of Blood', Birmingham [Warwickshire], 20 April 1968); industrial development; productivity targets; the nuclear deterrent and defence spending; inflation; the failure of Labour's economic policy and devaluation; international money and the investor; bureaucracy, particularly Industrial Training Boards. Also includes: paper by Professor William Hutt commenting on JEP's views on inflation, the fixed exchange and dirigisme; letter from Ralph Duckworth, Director, British Mechanical Engineering Federation, thanking JEP for a speech; extract from a speech by Edward du Cann on Britain's over-ambitious foreign policy; Labour's transport policy; the Common Market.
5 files.

Jul 1966-Jul 1975

Birmingham 20 April 1968: telegrams and letters from personal friends and letters of special interest. Correspondence following JEP's 'Rivers of Blood' speech in Birmingham [Warwickshire], with correspondents including: Unity Lister, Chairman of the Women's National Advisory Committee, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; Jasper More (2); David Winnick; Sir [John] Leonard Stone; Sir George Chaplin; George Currie; Guinevere Tilney (2); [Henry] Oscar Murton; Kenneth Young; [? Sir] John Mellor; Julian [? Amery]; Roger Moate; Henry Kerby; [Arthur] John Page; 3rd Lord Cromer [earlier Lord Errington]; [? Charles] Ian Orr-Ewing [Vice-Chairman, Defence Committee], thanking JEP for his work as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence; Kenneth Lewis; Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale]; William Abraham; Henry Price; John Bradfield; Colin Baillieu (2); Thomas Galbraith; John Cordle; Sir Stephen McAdden; Michael Strachan; Harold Gurden; John Jewkes; Sir Peter Agnew; [William] John Biffen; Patrick Wolrige-Gordon (2); Terence Clarke; 7th Lord Warwick [earlier Lord Brooke]; Jasper Rootham; Victor Goodhew (2); Professor Sir Douglas Savory on a prophecy by Sir Winston Churchill that JEP would be Prime Minister; Eric Walker; Ralph Harris; Robert Woods, Dean of Windsor; Maurice Petherick; Patrick Wall; Rear-Admiral Morgan Morgan-Giles [Vice-Chairman, Conservative Defence Committee]; [Joan] Jill Knight; Sir Archibald James; 14th Lord Napier (and 6th Lord Ettrick); Baroness Emmet of Amberley; Claude Lancaster; Sir John Rodgers; [?] 2nd Lord Jellicoe [earlier Lord Brocas]; Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid; Mark Woodnutt; Gwyneth, Lady Woolley; 4th Lord Normanby [earlier Lord Mulgrave]; Robert Jenkins; Eldon Griffiths; Charles Douglas-Home [Defence Correspondent for the Times]. Also includes: extract from a speech by Michael Alison on JEP's speech and his own position on immigration.
2 files.

Apr 1968-Jul 1968

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Labour economic policy, particularly price and income policy and savings policy; the extension of higher education; the coverage of race issues by the press and BBC; industrial relations, trade union law and strikes, including the teachers' strike; Britain's entry into the Common Market and the effects of the Market on Germany; immigration; the balance of payments and the exchange rate; housing; Training Boards; pension policy; Conservative economic policy; proposed regional government and the Maud Report; small businesses; the rise in violence; keeping up naval defence; nationalised industry, particularly the docks and shipbuilding; Gibraltar; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; a European nuclear deterrent and European Parliament; the international monetary system; the publication of JEP's speeches in Freedom and Reality; the Parliament Bill; the future of the Falkland Islands. Also includes: letter from John Bolton, Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms, on submitting evidence to the committee.
4 files.

Jan 1969-Dec 1969

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: agricultural policy; industrial relations and trade union law reform; immigration; political violence, particularly in Northern Ireland and in the universities; inflation; nationalised industry; Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe and Zambia]; exports and productivity; industrial safety legislation; the General Election; Britain's entry into the Common Market; Vietnam; taxation; housing; the free market; teachers' strikes; the nuclear deterrent; relations between Britain and Ireland; the Maud Report on local government reform; Labour and small businesses; public sector pay; pensions; a European currency and Parliament. Also includes: notes of evidence submitted to the Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms.
4 files.

Jan 1970-Jan 1971

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: MPs' pay; exchange rates; Britain's entry into the Common Market; industry, particularly industrial research and industrial relations; unemployment; Northern Ireland; immigration; the floatation of the pound; inflation; the nationalisation of the civil aviation industry, particularly concerning the bankruptcy of Rolls Royce Limited; the role of the Church; incomes policy; the Budget; press reporting; the balance of payments; Conservative policy on rents and wages. Also includes correspondence with Brian Young [Director General, Independent Television Authority], Charles Curran, Director-General, BBC and Christopher Chataway, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, on the use of fahrenheit and centigrade scales in weather forecasting.
4 files.

Jan 1971-Dec 1971

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: prices and incomes policy; taxation; nationality legislation; Britain's entry into the Common Market; immigration, particularly of Asians from Uganda, and also concerning the departure from the Commonwealth of Pakistan and Bangladesh; housing; Northern Ireland; inflation; political violence, in universities and Northern Ireland; volunteer defence reserves; strikes; the Industrial Relations Act; nationalised industry, particularly the railways and mining industry; religious belief; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]. Also includes copies of letters from Edward Heath as Leader of the Opposition on Conservative policy on immigration, with Foreign Office guide on immigration legislation.
4 files.

1972-Dec 1972

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: JEP's decision not to stand as a candidate in the 1974 General Election over the Conservative policy on Britain and the Common Market (including his 'Vote Labour' speech in Birmingham [Warwickshire], 23 February); strikes; inflation, the Conservative wage and price control policy and 'managed capitalism'; immigration, particularly the New Commonwealth population in Britain; the oil shortage; a European Parliament; international exchange rates, trade and the floating pound; Britain's relations with Canada; Conservatism in Scotland and Scottish offshore oil and gas reserves; the Equal Opportunities Commission; Northern Ireland; food prices. Also includes: article by Milton Friedman [Professor of Economics, University of Chicago] on the oil shortage; census figures; list of average food retail prices; letter from Francis Golding, Department of the Environment, on the Counter-Inflation Act.
4 files.

Jan 1973-Feb 1974

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the balance of payments and international exchange rates; Northern Ireland, particularly the Constitutional Convention, representation of Ulster in the British Parliament, the General Election in Northern Ireland, including JEP's election speech, agriculture and the 1973 constitution; relations between the Church and the monarchy; political responsibility, relating to the Conservative Party's abandonment of its principles; housing; Britain's entry into the Common Market; inflation; the newspaper industry; local government and devolution; political and public responsibility for health and the environment. Also includes handwritten draft speech notes by JEP: rough notes on thought and will, relating to human actions, good and evil and associations between races; notes for speech to the Convention of the Associated General Contractors of San Diego, United States (11 Mar 74), on problems with Western society, particularly on over-reliance on the state at the expense of capitalism and a free society; notes for speech at the Ulster Hall, Belfast (18 Apr 74), on Northern Ireland's future as part of the United Kingdom, following the 1974 General Election; notes for speech to the Conservative Trident Group (10 May 74) on regaining party unity, policy on Europe and prospects for a new Commonwealth.
4 files.

Mar 1974-Dec 1974

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Britain's membership of the Common Market, particularly over the common fisheries policy, a European Parliament, the Common Agricultural Policy and the 1975 referendum; the trade deficit; Government borrowing; the labour market; immigration and the Asian population; unemployment; JEP's decision to leave the Conservative Party; JEP's decision to stand as an Ulster Unionist, the aims of Unionism, relations between Ulster and Westminster, Irish citizenship and employment laws, Ulster's representation in Parliament, legislative devolution, the Constitutional Convention, Government dealings with the IRA and the currency; North Sea oil; energy policy and the oil crisis; inflation; interest rates; industrial relations; conventional defence relating to the Soviet Union; Soviet involvement in Angola; devolution in Scotland and Wales; international exchange rates; statutory incomes policy; the bankruptcy of British Leyland Limited; overseas aid; the association of the Conservative Cabinet [including Margaret Thatcher] with the policies of Edward Heath (Jan 1975).
6 files.

Jan 1975-Dec 1976

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Common Market, including the European Monetary System, the views of David Owen, Foreign Secretary, on the Common Agricultural Policy, a directly elected European Parliament, fisheries policy and human rights policy; the Gospels; the Orange Order; the marriage of the heir to the throne to a Catholic; North Sea gas and oil; the representation of Northern Ireland in government, its constitution, the use of the Irish currency, transport links with Britain and local government; Britain as a nation; incomes policy; inflation and unemployment; Britain's relations with Zambia [earlier Rhodesia]; Peugeot's purchase of Chrysler (UK) Limited; immigration and the New Commonwealth population, including the views of Margaret Thatcher, Leader of the Conservative Party; the exaggerated view of trade union power and trade union law; trade with Japan; the future of industry, particularly the building and printing industries; free enterprise; devolution, particularly for Scotland; the uses of education; interest rates; political and civil violence; British Leyland Limited; patriotism. Also includes: notes on air and rail transport links from Ulster to mainland Britain.
5 files.

Jan 1977-Dec 1978

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the constitution of Northern Ireland, terrorism, devolution (including the policy of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on devolution), representation of Ulster in Westminster and Ulster's place in British defence; exchange rates and the floatation of the pound; British Leyland Limited; memorial address for Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter, earlier [Margaret] Betty Harvie Anderson; drink driving legislation; the Common Market, including the position of France and Germany; the general state of the economy; the building industry; inflation; strikes; nationality legislation; the gas industry and energy policy; the General Election; immigration and the New Commonwealth population; devolution for Wales; relations with the Soviet Union; religious belief.
3 files.

Jan 1979-Dec 1979

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: politicians and the press; a papal visit to Britain; the balance of trade; the break down of the rule of law; inflation and unemployment; exchange rates; St Luke's gospel; the attitude of the Foreign Office and Northern Ireland Civil Service to Ulster and Ulster Unionist economic policy; Britain and the Common Market; Government borrowing and economic policy; European Council declaration on the Middle East; immigration; the oil market;.
3 files.

1980-Dec 1980

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Britain's membership of the European Economic Community and Common Market, including the European Convention on human rights, the views of the Prime Minister [Margaret Thatcher] and the Common Fisheries Policy; international exchange rates; inflation and interest rates; the nuclear deterrent and the role of the United Nations for peace; Government hostility against the Ulster Unionist Party, the Northern Ireland Assembly, IRA terrorism, interventions from the United States, devolution, retaining the Union, the 1981 local elections, communications with the British mainland and prison reform for Ulster; elected local government; the Falklands War, including the position of the United States in the war and American interference in international affairs, and the European perspective; the gospels, particularly relating to war; repatriation of immigrants and race relations; the balance of payments; memorial address for Sir Ronald Bell; interference in international affairs, particularly in Poland; low industrial productivity and the budget deficit; George Borrow; unemployment; defence policy; JEP's support for Margaret Thatcher; nationality legislation. Also includes: copies of human rights legislation, including the European Convention for the protection of human rights; summary of reports from Conservative Political Centre discussion groups on race issues, with covering letter from Timothy Raison [Minister of State, Home Office].
5 files.

Jan 1981-Dec 1982

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the uses of education; ending direct rule in Ulster, the Anglo-Irish Council, the past attitudes of the British Government to Ulster, interventions by the United States and representation for Ulster in Parliament; the results of past immigration policy; NATO defence policy; international exchange rates, the floating pound, the international monetary system and international monetary fund; British membership of the European Economic Community, particularly vested interests in membership, the Common Agricultural Policy, economic and political results and the effects for Ulster; Labour Party racial discrimination policy; the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands War; nationality legislation; unemployment and the miners' strike; the nuclear deterrent, including the basing of American cruise missiles in Britain; the Gospels; memorial address for 7th Lord Warwick [earlier Lord Brooke]; the shooting of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy, London; the mining industry; protection of oil supplies in the Persian Gulf; inflation and unemployment; the constitutional role of the monarchy; the London economic summit; foreign policy, particularly on Cyprus, the Middle East and Lebanon; the role of the United Nations in the Falklands War. Also includes: letters from Christina Foyle, Director of W and G Foyle Limited, on a luncheon for the 17th Duke of Norfolk [earlier Miles Fitzalan-Howard], hosted by JEP (3).
4 files.

Jan 1983-Dec 1984

Spares of Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Anglo-Irish Agreement, calling for Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, to counter the influence of the United States on Ulster, preserving the Union, assistance for the IRA and Ulster's parity of status with Britain; the Channel Tunnel; ethnic minorities; Christianity and science, studying the Gospels and resurrection; legal reform; the influence of the United States in British policy, particularly the economy, Europe, NATO and Ulster; interference in the internal affairs of other countries, particularly South Africa and Israel; human embryo research; inflation; Britain's membership of the European Economic Community, particularly the Common Agricultural Policy; the power of the civil service and foreign service; industrial society; the mining industry.
2 files.

Jan 1985-Dec 1985

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Ian Paisley [co-founder of the Democratic Unionist Party]; ethnic monitoring; pressure from the United States on Ulster, the Anglo-Irish Conference and Anglo-Irish Agreement, betrayal of Ulster by the British Government, and acceding to the demands of the IRA; harmful results of overseas aid; the purpose of higher education; protection of civil liberties; interference in the internal affairs of other countries, particularly South Africa; local taxation; the international monetary system; the Gospels; memorial address for Sir Iain Stewart; memorial address for Andrew Freeth; privatisation; attacks on Libya from American air bases in Britain; nationhood and democracy; the balance of payments and general economy; the place of Wales in Britain; agricultural policy. Also includes: letter from Canon Trevor Beeson on a paper by JEP on the Gospels.
2 files.

1986-Nov 1986

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the betrayal of Ulster by the British Government, the influence of the United States, and representation in Parliament; New Commonwealth immigrants; the economic situation, including the balance of payments; defence policy, including the nuclear deterrent; trade with Japan; interference in other countries, particularly Iran and Iraq; British membership of the European Community; A E Housman; the Gospels; the National Health Service; housing; education policy, particularly the National Curriculum. Also includes: correspondence with Richard Gott [Features Editor of the Guardian].
2 files.

Jan 1987-Dec 1987

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Joseph Chamberlain and Ireland; the defence of Western Europe; the legacy of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury; negotiations on the future of Ulster; relations between Iran and the United States; the nation of Wales; the Church and state, women priests and parish churches; the failure of the Labour Opposition; British defence policy; teaching Latin and Greek; local government; English parliamentary tradition; management of the National Health Service; the purpose of education; Government secrecy, particularly on the Falklands, Gibraltar and the IRA; Samuel Pepys; economic policy, particularly on exchange rates, interest rates and inflation; Britain and the European Economic Community; Tolstoy's religious faith; nationality legislation; the public life of Sir Winston Churchill; the Gospels; human rights legislation; the nuclear deterrent and east-west relations.
3 files.

Jan 1988-Dec 1988

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: defence policy, including maintaining peace in Europe and arms production; relations between Britain and Ireland, including the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the IRA and past policy on Northern Ireland; Britain and the European Economic Community, particularly the Common Agricultural Policy, changing Conservative policy on Europe, defence, economic affairs, East-West relations and the European Court of Human Rights; the Gospels; Hong Kong's reversion to China; Greek tragedy; the economy, particularly inflation and strikes and exchange rates; women priests; the National Health Service.
3 files.

Jan 1989-Nov 1989

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Britain's place in Europe, including the new balance of power, events in Eastern Europe, defence, Parliamentary independence, free trade and the Common Agricultural Policy; the Gospels; the future of Northern Ireland, including the results of British relations with the United States and representation for Ulster in Parliament; the principle of jurisdiction; the economy, including the balance of payments, inflation and the European Monetary System; equal rights for women; the evolution of Parliament and Parliamentary institutions; Samuel Johnson's Rasselas and his religious faith; memorial address for Jasper Rootham; immigration and the ethnic minority population; the National Health Service.
3 files.

Jan 1990-Dec 1990

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Gospels and Hebrew Old Testament; the future of Ulster; Britain's place in Europe, including Parliamentary independence, free trade, the attitude of the United States to Europe, economic and monetary union, and defence policy and the balance of power in Europe; the peace-keeping role of the United Nations; the Middle East; Cambridgeshire churches; tribute to R A Butler; higher education and the role of universities; memorial address for Diana Spearman; conflict in Yugoslavia.
3 files.

Jan 1991-Dec 1991

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the future of Ulster; Britain and the European Community, including Parliamentary independence, Labour policy on Europe, economic results, interference in the internal affairs of other nations, including Yugoslavia and Bosnia, and free trade; the General Election; the poetry of Horace; the role of the House of Lords; economic affairs, including inflation and the balance of payments; church monuments.
1 file.

Jan 1992-Dec 1992

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Gospels and the relationship between Church and State; Sir Robert Peel; Britain and the European Community, including relations with France, the balance of power in Europe, and the results of changing East-West relations; British policy on Northern Ireland; historical Anglo-Turkish relations (the Gallipoli Memorial Lecture); Anthony Trollope; interference in the internal affairs of other countries, particularly Bosnia and Yugoslavia; classical democracy in Athens.
1 file.

Jan 1993-Nov 1993

Speeches. Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Edmund Burke; the campaign against hunting; the parliamentary legacy of Magna Carta; the balance of payments and exchange rates; Britain and the European Community, particularly the balance of power in Europe; memorial address for John Vaughan-Morgan [Lord Reigate]; Greek and the New Testament, and the Gospels.
1 file.

Feb 1994-May 1995

Broadcasts. Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: immigration; defence, particularly cuts in the Middle East, British withdrawal from Singapore (in interviews with Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1967), and retaining use of nuclear weapons; floating exchange rates; JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics; Parliamentary privilege and private members' bills; doctors' pay; Roman London; the Commonwealth Conference (1965); the treatment of mental health; State planning; relations with Germany; European Free Trade; Vietnam and Malaysia; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; the steel industry, particularly nationalisation; [James] Harold Wilson as Prime Minister; Britain and the Common Market; agricultural policy; the aircraft industry; inflation; the death of Sir Winston Churchill; Parliamentary elections; politics in Shakespeare; higher education; JEP's own career; tribute to [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; the dangers of smoking; local health and welfare services; automation of labour; tribute to Aneurin Bevan; the price of land; televising Parliament; the Conservative and Labour Party Conferences, 1955, with the views of JEP and Anthony Wedgwood Benn [later 2nd Lord Stansgate and Tony Benn] on subjects including inflation, monopolies, the nuclear deterrent, the Middle East, differences between the Parties, relations between the Trade Unions and Labour, nationalisation of industry, national insurance and taxation; series of articles for the Stock Exchange Gazette on the nation's finances, 1960; series of international commentaries, 1959-1960 [? for Israel]. Also includes: correspondence with representatives of the BBC, including Austen Kark, Head of South European Service; letters from Dr Charles Fletcher and Maurice Macmillan, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, on JEP's attitude to tobacco advertising and taxation on cigarettes; letters following remarks by JEP on Any Questions (January 1964), particularly on leukaemia, fluoridation of water and the independence of the clergy; correspondence with Sir [Frank] Cyril Musgrave, Chairman of the Iron and Steel Board (2) on over-production in the steel industry.
5 files.

Oct 1955-Feb 1970

Broadcasts. Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: Britain and the Common Market, regulation of capitalism and immigration (included in a Politics in the 70's radio debate with Roy Jenkins); the Labour Party and Conservative Party (in Politics in the 70's radio debates with Roy Jenkins, Reginald Maudling and Michael Foot); legislation on equal rights for women; the Commonwealth; the relation between immigration and Christian duty (in a debate between JEP and [Ernest] Trevor Huddleston, Bishop of Stepney); Parliament; economic policy; Ulster; support for JEP's views on immigration from trade unionists; JEP's view of Edward Heath as Prime Minister; the House of Lords; JEP's view of Germany. Also includes: correspondence with representatives of the BBC.
4 files.

Feb 1968-Feb 1979

Broadcasts. Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: Charles Bradlaugh; the aims of the Ulster Unionists; collective Cabinet responsibility for policy; control of Britain's money supply and national and Parliamentary sovereignty; the trial of Socrates; the powers of the monarchy; Thomas Hobbes; the role of the House of Lords; JEP's career; Shakespeare's sonnets; Sir Martin Gilbert's biography of Sir Winston Churchill; the causes of the Falklands War; immigration; George Borrow; Benjamin Disraeli; the Lord's Prayer; Arthur Schopenhauer; 1st Lord Mountbatten of Burma; Alexander Solzhenitsyn; JEP and the Conservative Party; Michael Foot; the state of the economy.
4 files.

Jan 1974-Jun 1991

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