Hand-written drafts of chapters from the second volume of AFB's memoirs, covering the years from 1939 to the early 1960s, and written as a sequel to "Inside the left; thirty years of platform, press, prison and Parliament" (1942). Subjects include: the Second World War; politics during the war; rejoining the Labour Party and AFB's re-election to Parliament, 1950; AFB's first visit to East Africa (Sudan, Uganda and Kenya), 1950; Jomo Kenyatta, President of the Kenya African Union; the 1950 General Election; George Bernard Shaw, H G Wells and Bertrand Russell [3rd Lord Russell]; Kenya during the Mau Mau; independence for Tunisia; Ghana, 1951; life as an MP; ten years' reaction to the Labour Government; the dilemma of the Left; AFB's own philosophy; harassment due to AFB's support for [?] the Race Relations Bill.