Conservative Party
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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Public and Political: General: Political: statement of Conservative Party policy: correspondence, proofs, and pamphlets., May 1949 - Jul 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/88
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir David Maxwell Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir]; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; R A Butler (3); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Sir Hubert Henderson (2). Also includes note and copy of correspondence from secretaries Chips Gemmell and Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel].Includes: galley proofs with annotations of the draft statement of policy with sections on economic affairs, management and labour, nationalisation, the countryside,...
Dates:
May 1949 - Jul 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: speech notes., 28 Sep 1949 - 27 Oct 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/27A-E
Scope and Contents
Speech notes and Hansard report of WSC's speech (28 September, House of Commons) on the devaluation of the pound including: economic affairs; the forthcoming General Election; atomic weapons; the Labour government's policy on taxation; statements by Sir Stafford Cripps [Chancellor of the Exchequer]; the return to the Gold Standard; and nationalisation. Source material includes: notes of statements made by Aneurin Bevan [Minister of Health] and Herbert Morrison [Deputy Prime Minister]; notes...
Dates:
28 Sep 1949 - 27 Oct 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open