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Correspondence, 1976-05 - 1976-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/17

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: James Johnson; 7th Lord Sidmouth [earlier John Addington] congratulating AFB on a speech in the House of Lords on Africa, June 1976; [Arthur] John Reddaway, Director of Administration, Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding, on AFB remaining on the CAABU committee; Roger Baldwin, Honorary President of the International League for the Rights of Man; Vishnu Sharma, General Secretary of the Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, on a national conference of immigrant organisations, June 1976, also enclosing comments on the report of a visit to British posts in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan by Donald Hawley, Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to assess immigration procedures, and papers on amendments needed to the immigration rules, the Labour Party's breach of faith over the Pakistan Act and calling for a new law on nationality and citizenship; Gerald Kaufman, Minister of State, Department of Industry, on cuts to postal services; Lord Winterbottom [Government spokesman on defence] on the production of tritium at Chapelcross [Scotland] for Britain's nuclear weapons programme; David Marquand on quoting AFB in his biography of [James] Ramsay MacDonald; Alexander Lyon [Minister of State, Home Office] thanking AFB for a note, as they did not always see eye to eye; Mary Dines on a paper for the World Employment Conference; Felicia Langer on accusations that she was creating a smear campaign against Israel; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway on subjects including AFB's help to Louise Ouwerkirk with her book ["I Too Was a Jailbird"]; Frank Field, Director of the United Nations Association, asking AFB to raise a Question in the House of Lords on the arms trade.

Other subjects include attempts to secure a posthumous pardon for James Hanratty.

Also includes: minutes of a meeting in the House of Commons on the petition of the people of Banaba [or Ocean Island, part of the Gilbert Islands, later Kiribati] for independence, June 1976, with a copy of a draft letter to [Charles] Anthony Crosland [Foreign Secretary] on the island's future; papers on the formation of the Emergency World Council; papers from the Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse on the treatment of prisoners Valentin Moroz and Vladimir Bukovsky in the Soviet Union; paper on "The Cyprus problem, facts and principles", issued by the National Co-ordinating Committee of Cypriots in Britain.

Dates

  • Creation: 1976-05 - 1976-07

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

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

Extent

2 file(s)

Other Finding Aids

Former reference: box F9 #126

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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