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Correspondence and papers (by FR and others) on subjects including: commemorating the centenary of Bevin's birth; Bevin as Foreign Secretary; FR's personal impressions of Bevin and Sir [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]; Bevin, the Ruhr and the division of Germany, 1945-46; Bevin, France and 'Western Union', 1945-46; Foreign Secretaries as diplomatists; Britain, the United States and the Cold War in South-East Asia, 1949-50; Britain, the United States and the Cold War, 1945-48.

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits, including meetings at Alupka, Athens, Cairo, Washington, and San Francisco; Cadogan's role in the Malta Conference, Yalta Conference, and the United Nations Conference on International Organisation; the Allied invasion of Germany; negotiations over the Polish question and Soviet actions in Eastern Europe; reactions to the death of...

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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".

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,...

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,...

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Published as 'Ernest Bevin: Portrait of a Great Englishman', published by Hutchinson (UK, 1952). Handwritten.

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Published as 'Ernest Bevin: Portrait of a Great Englishman', published by Hutchinson (UK, 1952). Handwritten. Chapters 9, 14, 15, 16, 17.

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Broadcast by Bevin following the third session of the Council of Foreign Ministers in New York [United States] on finalising peace treaties after the war. Subjects include amendments required to the United Nations, particularly the use of the veto, the future of Trieste, Germany and of the Allies, and the direction of British foreign policy.

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Letters from France, chiefly the British Embassy in Paris [France], mainly on entertaining, with other subjects including: the Conference of Foreign Ministers (including Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]); the declining health of "Loulou" [Louise de Vilmorin]; visits from Winston Churchill in Paris and Geneva [Switzerland], July and Aug 1946; Mary Churchill’s engagement to [Arthur] Christopher Soames; the death of Lady Diana’s sister Marjorie, Lady Anglesey.

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The collection comprises George Leggett's diary of the Potsdam conference, souvenirs and papers connected with his time in Potsdam, and electronic transcripts of the diary.

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Correspondence on and transcripts of BBC programmes to which FR contributed on subjects including: the Berlin Blockade, 1948-49; the papers of Oleg Penkovsky; Britain and post-war Europe, particularly relating to Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin.

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The Papers consist of political papers, correspondence, speeches and press cuttings, mainly relating to Trade Unions, the Ministry of Labour and National Service, and the Foreign Office.

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Typescript and handwritten manuscript for book on the relationship between democratic socialism and capitalism in Britain, and the 1945 Labour government. Published by William Heinemann (London, 1948) and as 'Socialist Britain: its Background, its Present, and an Estimate of its Future' by Viking Press (USA, 1949).

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Gramophone records of a BBC broadcast by Ernest Bevin, Minister for Labour and National Service, on the success of the RAF and the rest of the armed forces, backed up by the country's power in production and the British people working together.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's first day at the Ministry of Information and her transfer to the General Division to work on morale and propaganda leaflets; comments on colleagues including Hugh Macmillan, Lady Grigg, Sir Kenneth Clark, Duff Cooper, E. McKnight Kauffer, Sir John Reith, Graham Greene, and Frank Pick; the progress of the Women's Employment Federation in wartime and its relationship with the Ministry of Labour; her move into 35 Argyll Mansions; reflections on democracy...