Correspondents on AFB's visit to Jordan as part of an Inter-Parliamentary Union delegation, and on the Middle East more generally, include: Jennie Lee [Janet Bevan], Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science, on British Council interest in mounting performances at Roman sites in Jordan (2); Barbara Castle, Minister of Overseas Development, on proposed development projects in Jordan; Afek Al Fayez, Speaker of the Jordanian Parliament, and Said Al Mufti, President of the Senate, on AFB's visit; Sir Geoffrey Furlonge, Treasurer of the Friends of the Arab Development Society, on AFB's appeal on behalf of a school in Jericho set up by the Society.

Also includes: note on tensions between Arabs and Jews in Jordan; programme for the delegation; draft article from AFB's impressions of Jordan; short version of a lecture by Georges Corm, "Israel in the International Strategy of the Western Powers"; call from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for protests against the Israeli occupation of Gaza; report from the Arab Women's Information Committee on aspects of the Israeli occupation, 1971; paper issued by the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding on Jerusalem and the Greater London Council, on their concerns about the GLC helping the Israeli authorities in Jerusalem with urban planning; sermon by Herbert Waddams, Canon Residentiary of Canterbury Cathedral, "A Christian Looks at the Middle East"; information kit of papers issued by the Fifth of June Society on the Palestinian conflict; open letter by Fareed Jafri, former editor of the Arab Chronicle, on the crisis in Pakistan and Bangladesh.