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Correspondence, 1981-04 - 1981-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/57

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Elsie Elliott [earlier Elsie Tu, member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong] on the Hong Kong Government's campaign to suppress any democratic movement and the case of the suicide of the homosexual policeman John MacLennan; Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania, on fears of food shortages in Tanzania; 2nd Lord Gowrie [earlier Lord Ruthven], thanking AFB for his sympathy on his wife's being involved in a court case; [Cora] Wendy... Campbell-Purdie on a plan to plant trees in barren parts of Greece; Timothy Black, Chief Executive of Population Services, thanking AFB for his help on India; Lord Buxton of Alsa on his Question for debate in the House of Lords on resolving the dispute with Argentina over the Falkland Islands; Baroness Elles, thanking AFB for taking part in the debate on Helsinki [the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE)] and East-West trade, May 1981; Lord Boothby, thanking AFB for his sympathy on a fall; Lord Jenkins of Putney on AFB acting as his sponsor in the House of Lords; Edith Playel-Barritt; Carmel Budiardjo, Tapol British Campaign for the Release of Indonesian Political Prisoners, on British arms sales to Indonesia; Lesley Abdela, inviting AFB to an event; [Ian] Robert Maxwell on his labour dispute with the National Union of Journalists (NUJ); James Dunn on a World Disarmament Campaign [WDC] event with members of the Soviet Peace Committee delegation; Frank Allaun on not being able to make the WDC event; Madhav Sharma, Artistic Director of the Asian Festival 1981; Matthew Freeman, Chairman of the University of Oxford Fabian Society (2); [Anthony] Tony Benn on contact details for Dolours Price.

Also includes: statement from Amnesty International on allegations that Saharan political prisoners were being held by the Polisario Front; statements by Robert Maxwell and the Pergamon Press on the labour dispute with the National Union of Journalists (NUJ); briefing paper on the hunger strikes by IRA prisoners in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland; progress report from the Justice for the Banabans Campaign.

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Dates

  • Creation: 1981-04 - 1981-06

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

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