Speeches: Speech notes (not delivered) for a Foreign Affairs debate in the House of Commons on 23 Jun 1954, 22 Apr-23 Jun 1954
Scope and Contents
Comprising annotated "psalm style" typescript speech notes on subjects including Anthony Eden's work at the Geneva Conference pursuing a peaceful settlement in Indochina [French Indochina, later Vietnam], the inclusion of the Colombo Powers [Ceylon, Indonesia, Burma, India and Pakistan] in the conference, communism in Asia, WSC's speech of 11 May 1953, WSC's relations with President Eisenhower, plans for a meeting between WSC and Eisenhower and concerns about the development of the hydrogen bomb.
Also includes a copy of a letter (set out in "psalm style") to "my dear friend" [President Eisenhower] from WSC suggesting that they meet to talk in Washington [D C] on 20-24 May 1954.
With an original envelope.
Dates
- Creation: 22 Apr-23 Jun 1954
Conditions Governing Access
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
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Extent
1 folder(s) (2 items)
6 folio(s)
External Documents
Custodial History
This item is stamped with a “W.S.C.” stamp, so was part of the Churchill papers which were stamped by the Public Record Office in 1961-1964. On cataloguing the envelope was annotated "5/54" [CHUR 5/54].
Custodial History
These speech notes were noted as missing from the Churchill Papers (CHUR 5/54) in Dec 1999.
Bibliography
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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