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Correspondence, 1946 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 1/12

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Peter Schmidt on his new post with the United Nations and AFB's resignation as editor of the New Leader; [John] J B Priestley on AFB's biography of Frederick Jowett ["Socialism Over Sixty Years"]; Paul Frölich on the disappointments of the international workers' movement in the last ten years; Matteo Matteotti [also Gianmatteo Matteotti] thanking AFB for his message of support to the Socialist Party of Italian Workers (PSLI).

Also...
includes: copies of letters from AFB to Joaquín Maurín, about Socialism in Spain, and to representatives of the Palestine Workers party on agreeing a common policy between Jews and Arabs on a united Palestine; account of a lunch with [Evelyn] John Strachey [Minister of Food] regarding his groundnut scheme in Tanganyika [later Tanzania] and Strachey's continuing socialist views; booklet for a memorial service for Edward Carpenter.

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Dates

  • Creation: 1946 - 1949

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The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

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