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Correspondence, 1979-03 - 1979-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/40

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Michael Heseltine, Secretary of State for the Environment; Elsie Elliott [earlier Elsie Tu, member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong] on housing issues in Hong Kong (2); 2nd Lord Trefgarne, Government Whip, House of Lords, on a proposed economic authority established by the United Nations; Patrick Mayhew, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Employment, on the labour dispute at the Nottingham Evening Post; Dixon Konkola on his personal situation and also bombings in Lusaka, Zambia, by various groups of freedom fighters and also the Government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia (2); Denis Bray, Hong Kong Commissioner in London; Sir Bernard Braine on payments from the Government to the people of Banaba, or Ocean Island [Kiribati, earlier the Gilbert Islands]; Brian Barnes, Wandsworth Mural Workshop, on the destruction of the Battersea Mural [London]; Dora Russell on financial support for her son, 4th Lord Russell, also enclosing a pamphlet with the text his speech in the House of Lords on penal law, 1978; Zaini Haji Ahmad [Vice-President of the Peoples' Party of Brunei], on the attitude of the new Conservative Government towards Brunei; 6th Lord Headfort [earlier Lord Bective] on his offer of the use of his estate for a conference on the future of Zimbabwe Rhodesia; Don McGregor on his fear of the apathy of the majority towards nuclear war; Louise Vidaud de Plaud, on a proposed press conference to be held by a group of French doctors recently returned from Cambodia, on the state of the country; Ben Pimlott on finding a possible collaborator for AFB in a history of the Labour Party; Lord Noel-Baker [earlier Philip Baker] thanking AFB for his support in a House of Lords debate on disarmament, May 1979 and on his plan for a new disarmament campaign [the World Disarmament Campaign (WDC), see FEBR 4]; 5th Lord Hylton [earlier Raymond Jolliffe] on the Second Reading of the Kiribati Bill; [Henry] Reginall Underhill, Labour Party National Agent, on speakers for the General Election campaign.

Dates

  • Creation: 1979-03 - 1979-07

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 F19 #159

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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