Correspondents include: Michael Blundell [Minister of Agriculture, Kenya] on multi-racial government within Commonwealth countries; Kenneth de Courcy on his concerns about Soviet influence in the Middle East and rumours of Soviet problems developing a hydrogen bomb (2); [Arthur] Paul Dean; Michel Debre on his regrets over the Suez Crisis; Sir David Eccles [Minister of Education] enclosing the text of his speech to his constituents on Suez; John Biggs-Davison, Economic Digest Limited; Stanley Evans (2); A F Frangulis, Permanent Secretary-General of Académie Diplomatique Internationale; Sir Ian Fraser; Sir de Villiers Graaff [Leader of the United Party, South Africa]; 1st Lord Hankey on a suggestion that [? Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, might become a British MP]; Edward Heath [Chief Whip]; Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, enclosing copies of telegrams which he had sent to Sir Winston Churchill and Robert Menzies about the Suez Crisis; 2nd Lord Hailsham [earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; Donald Johnson on his support for JA's line on Suez; [John] Hugh MacLennan on Canadian attitudes to Britain; Sir William McLean, Colonial Office Information Department; [William] Fergus Montgomery; Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams; Marcus Sieff, enclosing Egyptian Army orders giving instructions for war with Israel; John Simon; Peter Smithers, enclosing his memorandum on reappraising policy towards the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth; Mabel Strickland [Leader of the Progressive Constitutional Party, Malta], on subjects including the Suez Crisis, enclosing a photograph of Maltese politicians meeting Gamal Nasser [Prime Minister of Egypt] (2); Sir [Sigismund] David Waley; 1st Lord Vansittart on the conduct of the United States over Suez, and the benefits of closer union with Europe; Sir [William] Wavell Wakefield; William Yates on policy in the Middle East, particularly an Arab-Israeli settlement; John Parker (2); Hugh Fraser; Lord Hinchingbrooke.


Also includes: text of JA's speech to the Conservative Party Conference, 1956, on the Suez Crisis; draft letter from JA to [George] Peter Thorneycroft [President of the Board of Trade] on Thorneycroft's plan for entering a free trade area; text of JA's speech on his election to the chairmanship of the United Europe Movement.