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Correspondence, 1979-11 - 1980-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/44

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Phyllis Brockway (3); [Anthony] Tony Benn, sending good wishes for AFB's recovery after his fall, on the importance of the [World Disarmament Campaign, WDC] and looking forward to AFB's book on the Levellers ["Britain’s First Socialists"]; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway (3); George Cunningham; Ron Todd, National Organiser of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), apologising for missing a meeting to finalise the organisation of the World Disarmament Campaign; N G Goray, High Commissioner for India, on the unstable situation in India and attempts to establish the India Centre in London; Dorothy Detzer Denny on AFB's fall; Ian Aitken on AFB's fall; Raymond Apple, Chief London Correspondent of the New York Times, on his article featuring AFB; Lord Hale; 2nd Lord Trefgarne [Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office] on a Question raised by AFB about the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development; Julian Filochowski, Catholic Institute for International Relations, on the International Defence Committee for the Referendum Five [members of the Guyanan opposition who had been arrested by the Government of Guyana], also enclosing notes on their preliminary hearing and a copy of the report prepared by the Guyana Citizens' Committee on the Guyana referendum of July 1978; Dora Russell on AFB's fall, the appeal for the bust of Bertrand Russell [3rd Lord Russell] and a possible film about him; Peter Cadogan, General Secretary of the South Place Ethical Society, on AFB's fall and the appeal for the bust of Bertrand Russell (3); Lord Wedderburn of Charlton on AFB's fall and how he had been missed when the Government pushed the Rhodesia Bill through the House of Lords; Lord Parry on AFB's fall and how he was missed in the House of Lords; 2nd Lord Milford [earlier Wogan Philipps] on AFB's fall and how he was missed in the House of Lords; Lord Noel-Baker [earlier Philip Baker] enclosing a copy of his letter to Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, thanking him for his message on Noel-Baker's 90th birthday and also drawing his attention to the documentary film "Nuclear Nightmares"; Audrey Callaghan, Chairman of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children; Thomas Bower on AFB's fall.

Also includes: draft of AFB's letter to [Sven] Olof Palme on the aims of the World Disarmament Campaign [see FEBR 4]; issue of the Ethical Record, published by the South Place Ethical Society, April 1979, with a lecture by AFB, "The Humanist's Dilemma"; item from the United Nations General Assembly on the granting of independence to the Western Sahara; written answers by 6th Lord Carrington [Foreign Secretary] to Questions raised by AFB on global negotiations on world economic issues and progress of test ban treaty negotiations with the United States and Soviet Union; Question by AFB on whether the Government had established a special food reserve to help secure the world against famine.

Dates

  • Creation: 1979-11 - 1980-01

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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 F21 #85

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Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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