Scope and Contents 1. Correspondence and notes relating to political developments in Malaya from former Malayan civil servants S.W. Jones and Meadows Frost, the architect John McNeill, the lawyer Sir Arnold Robinson, Edward Gent, assistant under-secretary of the Colonial Office, and the politicians Patrick Donner and W.W. Astor (circa 40 sheets). Included is a copy of the House of Commons Parliamentary Debates, 6 June, 1944, containing a speech by Astor, and a paper entitled ‘Recruitment to Government...

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147 x 122 mm. Showing a group of officials seated round a table. The figures are identified as: Walker (Secretary); (Sir) Alexander Theodore NEWBOULT (1896-1974), Chief Secretary, Malayan Union 1946-1950; Sir Gerald [i.e. Gerard] Edward James GENT (1895-1948), Governor, Malayan Union 1946-1948; Hugh Patterson BRYSON (1898-1977), Assistant Secretary, Singapore 1956-1949; J.S. DUMERESQUE, Head of Broadcasting; Sir Franklin GIMSON (1890-1975), Governor of Singapore 1946-1952.

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Correspondence between Hugh Bryson and James de Vere Allen on the research and publication of the latter’s book, ‘The Malayan Union’, and on Allen’s research for an article on Terengganu during the early twentieth century. Several letters refer to Sir Edward Gent and the Malayan Emergency (21 sheets).