Engagements, The majority of articles date from 1965.
Scope and Contents
Copies of articles by AFB as Chairman of the Movement for Colonial Freedom [later Liberation] on subjects including: visits to India, including the famine, progress in modernisation and hostilities with Pakistan over Kashmir; the future of Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; the independence movement in Africa; the Vietnam War; the future of Mauritius; the Government's restriction of Commonwealth immigration; the state of the United Nations; the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; a survey of Commonwealth immigrants in AFB's constituency at Slough [Berkshire]; Aden [Adan, Yemen]; the Race Relations Act; the refugee crisis arising from the conflict between Jordan and Israel; the conflict between Indonesia and Malaysia; the crisis in British Guiana [later Guyana]; the anti-apartheid movement.
Also includes AFB's maiden speech in the House of Lords, "Take Africa, Asia and South America out of the Cold War", December 1964 and press cuttings from the Lucknow National Herald of articles by AFB.
Dates
- Creation: The majority of articles 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
1 file(s)
Other Finding Aids
Former reference: box 39 #199
Subject
- United Nations (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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