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Includes: press cutting with an article by David Smiley on prospects for peace in the Yemen; memorandum by Sir [Gerald] Kennedy Trevaskis, former High Commissioner of Aden, on the situation in the Gulf region; statement by [?] JA on the rumoured decision to close down the British base at Aden [Adan]; memorandum on the Yemen by Neil McLean.

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Correspondence on the biography of [Neil] "Billy" McLean by Xan Fielding, including draft text annotated by JA, and JA's speech at McLean's memorial service. Correspondents include Xan Fielding, 2nd Lord Stockton, Chairman of Macmillan Publishers Limited [earlier Alexander Macmillan] and Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken; Kenneth Baker, Secretary of State for Education and Science, on the proposed moving of the Royal Greenwich Observatory to Cambridge; Antony Baldry; 4th Lord Bethell; Sir Peter Blaker (2); John Blelloch [former Private Secretary to JA at the War Office] recalling journeys with JA in Abu Dhabi and Oman, 1957-58 (2); Sir Nicholas Bonsor, asking for JA's support in the elections to the 1922 Committee executive; Virginia Bottomley on the Central London...

Scope and Contents Correspondents (many sympathising with JA on the death of [Neil] "Billy" McLean and complimenting him on his address at McLean's memorial service) include: David Alton on the Jubilee Campaign for human rights (2); Rifaat al-Assad, Vice-President of Syria; Hugh Astor (4); Anthony Kenny, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, on the election of a new university Chancellor, following the death of 1st Lord Stockton [earlier (Maurice) Harold Macmillan]; Sir John Biggs-Davison,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Papers on general subjects, including: overseas visits; the Middle East, particularly events in Aden [Adan], Saudi Arabia and the Yemen; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; South Africa; Gibraltar.

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Includes related correspondence with "Billy" McLean.

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Reports on operations in the Sana area, including related correspondence with "Billy" McLean and a copy of a letter from Wilfred Thesiger on the lack of medical facilities, appealing for the Red Cross to move nearer the front.

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Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Neil "Billy" McLean, Major David Smiley and JA on their mission with the Albanian resistance.