Correspondence, 1974-07 - 1975-02
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Lord Pitt of Hampstead, thanking AFB for his congratulations on his peerage; Lord Caradon [earlier Hugh Foot] on a speech by AFB on the United Nations Agencies, particularly on making better use of the Economic and Social Council; Lord Goronwy-Roberts, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on subjects including refuting a suggestion that he might be a reactionary and the case of the detention of Abdul Lalim bin Seruddin in Brunei (3); Kenneth Coates and Chris Farley, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, on difficulties with the Foundation's finances; Dorothy Detzer Denny on her cancer treatment and her sympathy on the death of AFB's daughter Audrey (2); Lord Bruce of Donington, thanking AFB for being one of his sponsors in the House of Lords; Lord Sainsbury, on missing a debate; Peter Cadogan, General Secretary of the South Place Ethical Society, on the society's Open Door programme for the BBC (2); Victor Swoboda on the hunger strike of the Ukrainian writer Valentyn Moroz during his imprisonment in the Soviet Union; Wendy Butlin on the unfair punishment [Margaret] Pat Arrowsmith received after trying to form a prisoners' union in Holloway Prison; Anthony Lester [Special Adviser to Home Secretary] on various prisoners' cases (2); [Kathleen] Nora (4) and Phyllis Brockway (2) on subjects including the Registry of World Citizens, difficulties suffered by AFB's daughter Audrey and their admiration for his book "The Colonial Revolution"; Ethel Mannin on the position of the Fabians on the First World War as she was writing a novel on the subject (2); Jean Justice on the campaign to clear the name of James Hanratty (2); David Sheppard [Bishop Suffragan of Woolwich] on his chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Fund; Roy Jenkins, Home Secretary, on the hunger strike of the IRA prisoner Paul Holmes and the Hanratty case (2); George Thomson on subjects including AFB's part in ending the hunger strike of the Price sisters [Dolours and Marian Price, both members of the IRA, convicted for their part in the London car bombing campaign, 1973]; Bruce McGowan, thanking AFB for his part in the change to the law on allowing foreign nationals married to British citizens to live and work in Britain; Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office; Lord Wells-Pestell, Spokesman in the House of Lords for the Department of Health and Social Security, on a Question raised by AFB on a minimum living wage; Joan Lestor, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on subjects including the advertisement of posts at the University of Rhodesia in Britain (2); Judith Hart, Minister of Overseas Development, on aid to relieve war suffering in North Vietnam; Christopher Mayhew on a conference of West European and Arab Parliamentarians; Martin Ennals, Secretary General, Amnesty International, on information sent by AFB on the treatment of the Indian Maoist Naxalite group, and conditions for prisoners in West Bengal in general; Don Bateman on the history of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), particularly attacks from the Comintern in the 1930s, editing the memoirs of John McNair, former General and Political Secretary of the ILP and writing a pamphlet on Joaquim Maurin (3); David Owen, Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security, on NHS waiting lists in the south east; Barbara Castle, Secretary of State for Social Services; Manuel Fraga-Iribarne, Spanish Ambassador to Britain, sending AFB a book on the history of Gibraltar; Lord Brayley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Defence (Army) on the case of a Conscientious Objector.
Also includes: minutes of a meeting of the Parliamentary Group for World Government, November 1974, on the prospects for a conference in Geneva [Switzerland] in spring 1975 on the Law of the Sea; paper on the launch by War Resisters International of an international campaign for the British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland; minutes of a meeting of the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors Continuing Committee (CBCO), September 1974; text of an article by Amnon Rubinstein on Dr Israel Shahak, Chairman of the League for Human Rights in Israel, advocating action against him for treasonous activities; draft and text of AFB's obituary for the Indian politician [Vengalil] Krishna Menon; permit for AFB to visit Dolours and Marian Price in prison; copy of AFB's statement to the Red Lion Square Inquiry [following the death of a man in a riot at Red Lion Square, London]; pamphlet on the third anniversary of the assassination of Kenyan journalist and politician Pio da Gama Pinto; National Council for Civil Liberties briefing on the imprisonment of the peace campaigner Pat Arrowsmith.
Dates
- Creation: 1974-07 - 1975-02
Creator
- From the Fonds: Brockway, Archibald Fenner, 1888 - 1988 (Baron Brockway of Eton and Slough, politician) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Closed as the whole file contains numerous letters with sensitive personal information on potentially living individuals.
Extent
3 file(s)
Other Finding Aids
Former reference: box F4 #154
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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