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Correspondence, 1975-03 - 1975-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/11

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Lord Janner on the case of a Soviet citizen trying to emigrate to Israel; Eric Moonman on an article by AFB on nuclear weapons, suggesting that they do a joint event together; 3rd Lord Stamp on his visit to the Middle East for a project to disseminate information through audio-visual aids; Ronald Hayward, General Secretary of the Labour Party, on the decision not to go ahead with a projected history of the Party; Philip Noel-Baker [earlier Philip Baker] on an oral history project relating to Conscientious Objectors during the First World War; 2nd Lord Russell of Liverpool on calling for an inquiry into the James Hanratty case (2); A S Kharusi, Chairman of the Zanzibar Organisation, on human rights abuses by Julius Nyerere [President of Tanzania] and the failure of British democrats and liberals to condemn them, also enclosing "I was Nyerere's Prisoner" by Ali Muhsin Barwani, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Zanzibar (2); Nancy Tait, enclosing papers on her campaign for compensation for the victims of asbestos exposure; Terence Prittie, Editor of Britain and Israel, on the need for an impartial international commission to examine the claims of all who had lost homes and property in the Middle East dispute; Roy Jenkins, Home Secretary, on the transfer of Irish prisoners to Northern Ireland; Lord MacLeod of Fuinary; Shirley Summerskill, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office; A M Azahari Mahmud, Chairman of Partai Rakyat Brunei, on hopes for a form of democratic government for Brunei; Don Bateman; Dorothy Detzer Denny on her own health and the illness of her late husband, Ludwell Denny; Ian Martin, Group Secretary of the ASTMS Community Relations Group.

Also includes: papers from the International Conference for the Implementation of UN Resolutions on Cyprus; draft Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, issued by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association; text of AFB's message to the British delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting in Jamaica, urging them to allow the British people to decide whether to join the Common Market; report by Amnesty International into detention conditions in West Bengal [India] jails; notes for AFB's tribute to Michael Szur, who had worked for the Movement for Colonial Freedom and Liberation; message to British women in International Women's Year, from Edith, Lady Russell, urging withdrawal from NATO.

Dates

  • Creation: 1975-03 - 1975-06

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

File 3 closed as it contains sensitive personal information on a potentially living individual.

Extent

3 file(s)

Other Finding Aids

Former reference: box F6 #157

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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