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70th birthday, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/4

Scope and Contents

Letters, telegrams and cards of congratulation, with some press cuttings and a guest list for AFB's birthday party. Correspondents include: Sir [Arwyn] Lynn Ungoed-Thomas; Richard Clements; Jennie Lee [Janet Bevan] and Aneurin Bevan; [Ernest] Trevor Huddleston; Cheddi Jagan [Chief Minister of British Guiana, later Guyana], thanking AFB for his contribution to the cause of colonial freedom; Heinz Putzrath, International Secretary of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), on his gratitude to AFB for his help when Putzrath was interned during the war; Jacobus Oldenbroek, General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; Erich Ollenhauer, Chairman of the German Social Democratic Party, recalling AFB's help to the SPD in 1946; Wilebaldo Solano, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) on the Spanish socialists' gratitude to AFB for his support during the Spanish Civil War; Hilary Marquand on his admiration for AFB; [Rajani] Palme Dutt, Editor of Labour Monthly; [Arthur] Anthony Greenwood; Julius Braunthal on his gratitude for AFB's help when he was a refugee; [Maurice] Christopher Hollis; Gertrud Baer, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Hugh Gaitskell; Thomas Driberg [later Lord Bradwell]; Isaac Wallace-Johnson [co-founder of the Sierra Leone United National People's Party].

Dates

  • Creation: 1958

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

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

Extent

2 file(s)

Other Finding Aids

Former reference: box 27 #142a

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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