United Nations
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Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:
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"A Memorandum on the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals for the Organisation of the United Nations", c Nov 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/31
Scope and Contents
Draft memorandum by HL.
Dates:
c Nov 1944
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Commission on Human Rights, 1950-01
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/70
Scope and Contents
United Nations Economic and Social Council paper from the sixth session of the Commission, giving comments from the Governments of Israel on the draft international covenant on human rights and measures of implementation.
Dates:
1950-01
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Defence briefings and other papers, January-November 1978, 1978-01 - 1978-11
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/83
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with General Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson, January-February 1978
Also includes briefing note for MT from John Stanley MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary relating to "NATO and the new Soviet Threat", based on a report by American Senators Nunn and Bartlett to the Senate Committee on Armed Services, May 1977
Also includes Conservative Research Department briefing notes on the Government's statement on the defence estimates for 1978, March 1978;...
Dates:
1978-01 - 1978-11
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
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Diary, 1946-01-01 - 1946-01-21
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/16
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's role in the first meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation, and his pessimistic account of the progress made at delegation meetings; and comments on books read while travelling, including disparaging remarks on Douglas Goldring's "The Nineteen Twenties".
Dates:
1946-01-01 - 1946-01-21
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Diary, 1946-01-22 - 1946-11-21
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/17
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: Cadogan's appointment as Permanent Representative of the UK Government to the United Nations; relationships with United Nations delegates and the Foreign Office; United Nations resolutions; Security Council negotiations on subjects including uses of the veto and withdrawal of troops from Syria, Lebanon, and Iran; discussions relating to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission and reaction to proposals of Bernard Baruch; and comments on leisure activities,...
Dates:
1946-01-22 - 1946-11-21
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Diary, 1946-11-21 - 1947-12-31
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/18
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with United Nations committees, the British Delegation, and the Foreign Office; notes on the development of United Nations procedures and elections; the admission of new member states Yemen and Pakistan; discussions relating to United Nations Security Council resolutions and the Partition Plan for Palestine; Cadogan's attendance at working committee meetings regarding atomic energy and the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission; comments on...
Dates:
1946-11-21 - 1947-12-31
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Diary, 1948
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/19
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relations with United Nations committees, the British Delegation, and the Foreign Office; notes on the development of United Nations procedures and the admission of new member states; discussions relating to United Nations Security council resolutions on Palestine and the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir [region in China, India and Pakistan]; ongoing discussions surrounding Eastern Europe; the Berlin Blockade; the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission;...
Dates:
1948
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Diary, 1949
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/20
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relations with United Nations committees, the British Delegation, especially with Barbara Castle, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's inspection of building plans and models for the new United Nations Council Chamber; notes on progress with the United Nations Atomic Energy commission, the Commission for India and Pakistan, and the Commission for Conventional Armaments; discussions relating to United Nations Security Council resolutions on Indonesia, Palestine,...
Dates:
1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Issue microfilm copy only
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Diary, 1950
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/21
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relations with members of United Nations committees; discussions surrounding China and Kashmir [region in China, India and Pakistan]; Cadogan's reflections on his diary-writing and personal archive, including scrapbooks; Cadogan's retirement from the United Nations; the family's relocation to London and notes on interior decoration, shopping, and household provisioning; Cadogan's appointment to the boards of the National Provincial Bank and the Phoenix...
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Copy available on microfilm
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International Asian Highway. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 1964., 1964
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/1
Scope and Contents
242 x 169 mm. Showing flyovers at the Kuala Lumpur section of the Asian Highway. A note on the reverse of the print reads:'The Asian Highway, a project initiated in 1958 by ECAFE, aims at modernizing and linking up existing roads into a 34,000-mile network of highways that would span Asia from Turkey and Iraq to the Republic of Viet-Nam, Singapore and Indonesia. Priority Route A-1 runs from Saigon through eight countries, while Priority Route A-2 runs from the Iraq border to...
Dates:
1964
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International Law Committee , c 1943-44
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/26
Scope and Contents
Memorandum by HL for the British Committee for the Consideration of the Principles of International Law and Organisation, on the principles of international organisation, and his observations on a draft paper by James Brierly [Professor of International Law, University of Oxford] on the nature of international law.
Dates:
c 1943-44
Conditions Governing Access:
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International Law Committee , 1943-08 - 1944-07
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/28
Scope and Contents
Papers of the British Committee for the Consideration of the Principles of International Law and Organisation on a post-war successor to the League of Nations, including notes and memoranda by Professor James Brierly, Sir Cecil Hurst and Arnold McNair, conclusions reached by the Committee on a draft document by Professor Manley Hudson and HL's memorandum on the principles of international organisation.
Dates:
1943-08 - 1944-07
Conditions Governing Access:
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International Law Committee, 1944-03 - 1944-07
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/29
Scope and Contents
Papers of the British Committee for the Consideration of the Principles of International Law and Organisation on a post-war successor to the League of Nations, including notes and memoranda by HL, Sir Cecil Hurst and Arnold McNair.
Dates:
1944-03 - 1944-07
Conditions Governing Access:
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Interviews with NK , 1990-11 - 1991-03
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/142
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: John Major's victory in the Conservative leadership election; the Poll Tax; NK's visit in 1991 to the United Nations following the Gulf War, on peace in the Gulf and international policy towards Iraq; the Ribble Valley by-election; a visit to Northern Ireland; the state of the economy.
Dates:
1990-11 - 1991-03
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Letters from GJ to Cynthia Jebb, 1942-08 - 1945-06
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 7/18
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: meeting Cecil Beaton after his return from Egypt; the departure of Nigel Ronald [Assistant Under-Secretary, Foreign Office] and Richard Law [Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Foreign Office, later 1st Lord Coleraine] for the United States, 1942; GJ's own journey to Washington, Mar 1943, and part in the Quebec Conference, Aug 1943; the journey to Cairo [Egypt], Nov 1943; the Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the founding of the United Nations, Washington, Aug 1944; the United...
Dates:
1942-08 - 1945-06
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters from GJ to his mother, Rose Jebb, 1940-06 - 1960-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 7/8
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: whether to send the children to the United States during the war; concerns about his sister Marjorie, living in Italy; the difficulties in dealing with the Soviets; progress of the Paris Peace Conference, 1946; GJ's view of the United Nations Security Council and his own star status in New York [United States]; the British delegation to the sixth General Assembly of the United Nations, 1951; trouble caused by American investigations into alleged Communists; taking up the...
Dates:
1940-06 - 1960-08
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: "The Second World War": preface for the abridged [one-volume] edition [eventually incorporated into the published version as "An Epilogue on the Years 1945 to 1957"] covering WSC's speeches at Fulton [United States] (March 1946) and Zurich [Switzerland] (September 1946), tensions with the Soviet Union, the founding of NATO, the Berlin [Germany] blockade, the European Movement, the atomic bomb, Stalin's death, Indian independence, the Korean War, the creation of Israel, and the United Nations., Feb 1957
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/400A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes proofs, drafts, corrections, and notes annotated by "A H" [Alan Hodge], ?[William Deakin], "A M B" [Anthony Montague Browne], WSC, "D K" [Denis Kelly], and Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], and file covers [added by Martin Gilbert].
Dates:
Feb 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: typescript proofs and draft copies [some annotated by WSC] of WSC's article entitled "One Way to Stop a Third World War"., 1946
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/71
Scope and Contents
First published in Collier's magazine, on the aftermath of World War II, the roles of France, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union with regard to Europe, the United Nations, the need for a Council of Europe, and the atomic bomb.
Dates:
1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Prime Minister: correspondence between WSC and President Dwight D Eisenhower [President of the United States]., 29 Jan 1953 - 31 Mar 1955
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A-C
Scope and Contents
ff 1- 139 are copies of letters and telegrams from WSC to President Dwight D Eisenhower, 07 Feb 1953 - 31 Mar 1955.ff 140 - 214 are copies of letters from President Dwight D Eisenhower to WSC, 02 Feb1953 - 29 Mar 1955.ff 215 - 282 are copies of correspondence between WSC and President Dwight D Eisenhower, 29 Jan 1953 - 24 Mar 1955. Includes original letters from Dwight D Eisenhower, James D Moffett (2nd Secretary, United States Embassy in Britain) and Winthrop Aldrich (United States...
Dates:
29 Jan 1953 - 31 Mar 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: War Cabinet: "Argonaut" - record of proceedings., 29 Jan 1945 - 12 Mar 1945
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/15
Scope and Contents
Chiefs of Staff Committee minutes and memoranda of the proceedings of the conferences at Malta and Yalta [Soviet Union] on subjects including: the U-boat threat during 1945; co-ordination of Anglo-American and Soviet air operations in Eastern Germany; Mediterranean strategy; the South East Asia Command; a review of merchant shipping; fuel supplies; zones of occupation in Germany; strategy in North West Europe; German bomb and rocket attacks; Pacific operations; prisoners of war;...
Dates:
29 Jan 1945 - 12 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives., 24 Nov 1942 - 28 Dec 1943
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/11
Scope and Contents
Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: a forecast of the arrival of American forces in Britain; enemy strength in Tunisia, including notes by General Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to WSC]; over- optimism on post-war conditions; Sir William Beveridge's report on social security; demands on shipping by overseas cereal requirements; the ringing of church bells; telegrams between WSC and Stalin on Soviet-Polish relations; Jewish immigration into Palestine,...
Dates:
24 Nov 1942 - 28 Dec 1943
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Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives., 28 Nov 1943 - 30 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/13
Scope and Contents
Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: records of conversations at the Anglo-American- Russian conference in Teheran [Persia, later Iran] between delegates including WSC, Stalin, President Franklin Roosevelt, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Foreign Minister] and Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to President Roosevelt], on Turkey, using Italian ships, Poland, Finland and a date for "Overlord"...
Dates:
28 Nov 1943 - 30 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives., 29 Dec 1944 - 17 Jul 1945
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/14
Scope and Contents
Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: correspondence between WSC and President Franklin Roosevelt on American voting powers in the United Nations; post-war demand for airfields, including a report by the Chiefs of Staff; records of speeches and a conversation between WSC and Stalin at the Yalta Conference [Soviet Union]; the allocation of man-power, including the release of women from the Forces; telegrams between WSC and [Mackenzie King] Prime Minister of...
Dates:
29 Dec 1944 - 17 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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Opinion on Palestine, c 1947
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/45
Scope and Contents
Opinion by HL on whether the dissolution of the League of Nations and the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations affected the validity of Article 18 of the Mandate for Palestine.
Dates:
c 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
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Opinion on Palestine and the United Nations, 1947-10
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/43
Scope and Contents
Manuscript draft of HL's Opinion, written for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, on whether a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly of the United Nations was necessary for a recommendation on the future government of Palestine and whether the Assembly had legal competence to partition Palestine.
Dates:
1947-10
Conditions Governing Access:
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