Articles, The majority of folios date from 1965.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on and drafts and final texts of articles by AFB sent to overseas newspapers and journals, mostly from the African and Asian press. Subjects of the articles include: revisiting Lincoln prison; Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; AFB's visit to the Soviet Union, 1965 [see also FEBR 2/10]; the Bou Saada project to grow crops in the Algerian desert [see also FEBR 2/10, 3/1 and 7/9]; the Vietnam War; the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation; the responsibilities of the newly-independent states of Africa and Asia; the Labour Government's record on colonial peoples and the new nations; the Commonwealth; self-determination of newly-independent states; Jordan; integration of immigrant communities in Britain; joining the House of Lords; nuclear disarmament; fears of China; rumours of a new bloc of Islamic states; issues in India, particularly over Kashmir, famine and relations with China; the Rhodesian state of emergency; the state of the British economy and reasons to cut the military bases in the Middle East and Asia "east of Suez"; the situation in Yemen; the future of an independent Mauritius; the war between Pakistan and India; allegations of torture in South Africa; the Race Relations Act; Aden [Adan]; the death of Adlai Stevenson.
Dates
- Creation: The majority of folios date from 1965.
Creator
- From the Fonds: Brockway, Archibald Fenner, 1888 - 1988 (Baron Brockway of Eton and Slough, politician) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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 37 #180
Subject
- House of Lords (Organization)
Cultural context
Geographic
- Adan (governate)
- China (nation)
- India (nation)
- Indonesia (nation)
- Jordan (nation)
- Malaysia (nation)
- Mauritius (nation)
- Rhodesia
- South Africa (nation)
- Soviet Union
- Yemen (nation)
- Zimbabwe (nation)
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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