Subjects include: the Suez Canal [Egypt] and the Canal Zone Agreement, including a visit to Cairo by JA; the defence debate; JA's visit to Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] relating to Southern Africa and Central African Federation; security of air bases in the Middle East and South East Asia; the textile industry; the economic crisis; the Conservative Government's record; the Geneva peace conference; the constitutional conference on Malta; a review of the first volume of Charles de Gaulle's war memoirs, "The Call to Honour"; a United Europe.

Also includes draft memoir of JA's part in "The Suez Rebellion".