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European Security, 1968 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 3/24

Scope and Contents

Papers on East-West relations, particularly AFB's plan for a Committee for European Security and Co-operation conference in London, 1971, with correspondents including: [Anthony] Tony Benn; Lord Chalfont [earlier Alun Gwynne Jones] (4); Denis Healey; Lord Gardiner; Sir [Herbert] Harry Nicholas, General Secretary of the Labour Party (3); Frank Allaun; 2nd Lord Kennet [earlier Wayland Young]; Lord Stonham [earlier Victor Collins]; [James] Harold Wilson [Leader of the Labour Party]; Alfred Lomas, Political Secretary of the London Co-operative Society; Jack Jones, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU).

Other correspondents include: Frank Allaun on a Labour Action for Peace meeting about Pakistan and AFB joining the Labour National Executive Committee study group on European Security (2); Tom McNally, International Secretary of the Labour Party, inviting AFB to join the study group; Richard Briginshaw, General Secretary of the Graphical and Allied Trades Union; Lord MacLeod of Fuinary on a question raised by AFB in the House of Lords on NATO guidelines for the use of atomic weapons; Lord Winterbottom, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Air Force on the NATO guidelines; Herbert Blankenhorn, German Ambassador to Britain; George Thomson [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster], on a statement which he had made on NATO and improving East-West relations, 1969; Roger Royle, Succentor of Southwark Cathedral, asking AFB to take part in a debate; Willy Brandt, Chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD); Alfred Lomas, asking AFB to sign a letter on the dangers of the West German Government to call a presidential election in West Berlin.

Also includes a draft of a letter to the press by AFB on the ratification of the Ostpolitik treaties by West Germany, 1972.

Dates

  • Creation: 1968 - 1972

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 40 #200

Related Materials

See also FEBR 2/37-38 and 3/47.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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