Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the Donaldson Committee and the enquiry into the age of majority for enlistment in the armed services, with correspondents including: [Clifford] Tony Smythe, General Secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties (2); Lord Donaldson of Lymington, inviting AFB to appear before his committee; Dorothea, Lady Head, on her report for Amnesty International on deserters and conscientious objectors; Lord Winterbottom, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for...

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Press cuttings, memoranda from the National Council for Civil Liberties, an article by AFB and copies of Hansard with questions by AFB on the attempt to obtain a discharge without fault for boys who had enlisted in the Armed Services under the age of 18.

Scope and Contents Papers mainly relating to the Donaldson Committee and the enquiry into the age of majority for enlistment in the armed services. Includes: report of the Committee on the Age of Majority, 1967; a National Council of Civil Liberties paper on civil liberties and service recruitment, 1970; report of the Donaldson Committee on boy entrants and young servicemen, 1970; copy of Hansard with a statement on the release of the Donald Committee report; draft of a note by Kenneth Young and cutting of an...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors Continuing Committee, with various researchers, on the reprint of the newsletter Tribunal and on the status of Italian Conscientious Objectors. Other correspondents include Lord Donaldson of Lymington, on a CBCO paper (enclosed) to be submitted to his committee on the age of majority for enlistment in the armed services, and [Clifford] Tony Smythe, General Secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties, on...