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Correspondence, 1974-11 - 1975-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/9

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: 5th Lord Listowel [earlier Lord Ennismore] on the work of the Circle Trust; [Basil] Christopher Butler, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and President of the Social Morality Council, asking for AFB's approval for a note on moral education which the council was sending to Reginald Prentice [Secretary of State for Education and Science]; Pastor Tullio Vinay on a meeting in support of political prisoners of South Vietnam, to be held in Washington [United States], January 1975; [Paul] Arthur Lehning, thanking AFB for his part in a tribute to him for his 75th birthday; David Bean, President of the Cambridge Union Society, asking AFB to speak in a debate on cutting trade and sporting links with South Africa (2); Don Bateman on Independent Labour Party (ILP) members being excluded from the Labour Party; Dorothy Detzer Denny on her sympathy for AFB after [Dolours and Marian Price, both members of the IRA, convicted for their part in the London car bombing campaign, 1973] went back on hunger strike and the technique of writing memoirs (3); Roy Jenkins, Home Secretary on AFB's concerns about prison control units and the punishment of [Margaret] Pat Arrowsmith for trying to organise a union within Holloway Prison (2); Peter Cadogan, General Secretary of the South Place Ethical Society, on a lecture by AFB and a BBC Open door programme for the society; Baroness Llewelyn-Davies, Government Chief Whip, House of Lords, on a 90th birthday party for Lord Shinwell; Donal O'Sullivan, Irish Ambassador to Britain, on a memorial service for the late Irish President, Erskine Childers; Joan Lestor, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the difficulty of communications with Rhodesian detainees; [Arthur] Stanley Newens on setting up a meeting with Gerard Fitt [Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, SDLP]; David Ennals, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the detention of Mary Tyler with a Naxalite group in India; George Thomson; Douglas Jay on a constituency case; Wendy Butlin on Pat Arrowsmith's appeal against her punishment; Pat Arrowsmith, writing to Amnesty International, on her treatment; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway on subjects including the family tree (2); Lord Goodman on his Committee of Inquiry into Charity Law; Phyllis Brockway.

Also includes: report from the Birmingham Community Development Project on divided families within the Asian community; report from the National Association of Community Relations Councils on the problem of refugees from Cyprus being refused entry to Britain; statement by Pat Arrowsmith on her attempt to organise a prisoners' union at Holloway; submission from Liberation [earlier the Movement for Colonial Freedom] to the Scarman Enquiry on Red Lion Square [following the death of a man in a riot at Red Lion Square, London].

Dates

  • Creation: 1974-11 - 1975-02

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

File 2 closed as it contains sensitive personal information on a potentially living individual.

Extent

3 file(s)

Other Finding Aids

Former reference: box F5 #76

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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