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Correspondence, 1973-07 - 1973-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/3

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Noel-Buxton on subjects including his portrait of AFB; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway on subjects including AFB's book ["The Colonial Revolution"]; Phyllis Brockway on "The Colonial Revolution"; David Warren, President of the Oxford Union Society, inviting AFB to speak at a debate on workers' control (3); Charles Douglas-Home on his biography of Evelyn Baring; [Harold] Julian Amery, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the case of the Chilean journalist Oscar Waiss; Kenneth Morgan, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, on appealing to the Chilean Government on behalf of Oscar Waiss and also on the NUJ's resolution protesting at the Government's counter-inflation policy and attempt to deny trades unions the right to free collective bargaining (2); Frank Allaun on subjects including a demonstration calling for arms cuts (2); Simha Flapan, editor of New Outlook, appealing to AFB to use his Arab contacts to help with a prisoner exchange [in the Yom Kippur war]; Lord Winterbottom; [Margaret] Pat Arrowsmith, Amnesty International, thanking AFB for coming to speak in her defence in court; Edith Playel-Barritt on an Amnesty International film on Vietnamese prisoners of war, also reproaching AFB for his tone; 4th Lord Colville, Minister of State, Home Office; Ronald Hayward, General Secretary of the Labour Party, on taking AFB off their mailing list; Sir Gerald Nabarro, asking AFB to become a guarantor for the Mountbatten Centre Foundation; 2nd Lord Belstead, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office [earlier John Ganzoni] on the release of prisoners following the ending of the imposition of mandatory sentences; Maneck Dalal, Indian Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism, thanking AFB for attending an Indian Social Club Independence Day function; Mark Carlisle, Minister of State, Home Office, on protests from prisoners from Belfast, held at Brixton prison [London]; Baroness Tweedsmuir, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2); Ethel Mannin, on poetry by her late husband [Reginald Reynolds] and her view of Israel; Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone, Lord Chancellor [earlier Quintin Hogg] on an inheritance case in Kenya.

Also includes: text of an interview for Weekend World, with Ashraf Ghorbal, Press Counsellor to [Mohamed] Anwar El-Sadat, President of Egypt, on Egypt's aims during the Yom Kippur war; transcript from a BBC News bulletin, August 1973, on a suspected IRA fire-bombing campaign in London.

Dates

  • Creation: 1973-07 - 1973-11

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Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

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

Extent

3 file(s)

Other Finding Aids

Former reference: box F2 #89

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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