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The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on subjects including: relations between Britain, France, West Germany [later part of Germany] and the Soviet Union; the presence of West Germany in the European Assembly, in Western defence and a united Europe; reconciliation between France and West Germany and the lead being taken by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, Federal Chancellor of Germany; mutual assistance between Britain, France and West Germany for the good of Europe; reasons...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (5 October 1946, Conservative Party conference, Blackpool) entitled "Every Dog His Day" on subjects including: criticism of the Labour government; the need for a concerted opposition to Communism; foreign policy; the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union; post war reconstruction; the electoral system; taxation; housing; the coal industry; agriculture; nationalisation; foreign policy and Indian independence; and the need for increased Conservative...

Scope and Contents Notes for WSC's broadcast (BBC) on subjects including: the night bombing of London; the Battle of Britain and the successes of British fighter squadrons; the possibility of invasion and German deployment of barges, ships and troops in readiness; a call for every man and woman to do his duty; and the strength of British fleets and flotillas, air power, fortification and the million and a half men of the Home Guard. Includes the phrase "This wicked man [Adolf Hitler]...this monstrous product...

Scope and Contents Draft speaking notes for WSC's broadcast (BBC) on subjects including: the night bombing of London; the Battle of Britain and the successes of British fighter squadrons; the possibility of invasion and German deployment of barges, ships and troops in readiness; a call for every man and woman to do his duty; and the strength of British fleets and flotillas, air power, fortification and the million and a half men of the Home Guard. Includes the phrase "This wicked man [Adolf Hitler]...this...

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Correspondence on JEP's speech at Southport [Lancashire], 1 May 1970, with correspondents including: Eliot Rose [Jim Rose], Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Runnymede Trust [and Director of the Survey of Race Relations in Britain], on figures for the future immigrant population; Michael Reed, Registrar-General.

Also includes: comments by the Runnymede Trust on the speech; press cuttings.

Scope and Contents Correspondence following JEP's speech at Wolverhampton [Staffordshire], 9 June 1969, with correspondents including: Robert Jenkins (2); [Ernest] Trevor Huddleston, Bishop of Stepney; Canon [Lewis] John Collins, President of the Martin Luther King Foundation (2); William Deedes (2). Includes: copy of JEP's speech; text of speech by Huddleston on education and human rights; figures for letters received by JEP after the speech; texts of television interviews with Quintin Hogg [later...

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Speeches.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on subjects including: WSC taking over at the Foreign Office; aims to conclude a truce in Korea and the repatriation of prisoners-of-war; the situation in Indo-China [later Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam]; the evacuation of Abadan, Egypt, the new Egyptian ruling junta and negotiations on the reduction of British forces in the Canal Zone; the Soviet occupation of East Germany [later part of Germany]; relations with West Germany [later part of...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Papers consist of political papers, correspondence, speeches and press cuttings, mainly relating to Trade Unions, the Ministry of Labour and National Service, and the Foreign Office.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on the publication and sale of Freedom and Reality, a book of JEP's collected speeches, mainly with representatives of B T Batford Limited and Batsford Academic and Educational Limited (26), including Brian Batsford, Chairman. Other correspondents include: Christina Foyle, Director of W and G Foyle Limited, Booksellers, on JEP's talk at a Foyles Literary Luncheon to launch the book (5); Leonard Read, President of the Foundation for Economic Education Incorporated, requesting...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Andrew Elliot, Chairman of Elliot Right Way Books, mainly on the publication and sale of the paperback edition of Freedom and Reality, a book of JEP's collected speeches, and Elliot's support for JEP. Other correspondents include: Thomas Joy, Managing Director of Hatchards Limited; Leonard Read, President of the Foundation for Economic Education, Incorporated; John Biggs-Davison; Brian Batsford, Chairman of B T Batsford Limited (2). Also includes: cuttings of...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

Scope and Contents Includes: paper given at the conference of the League of Nations Union, by [William] Lionel Hichens, Chairman of Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, on hours and wages in relation to unemployment; press-cutting of an article by LSA on wage-fixing; abbreviated draft by LSA of the King's speech, on foreign and colonial policy, unemployment, agriculture and pensions; prints of articles by LSA for the National Review on free trade and socialism, how Britain won and lost industrial supremacy, and...

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Speech to Oxford University Conservative Association.

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Photo of WSC speaking in front of a bank of microphones with his arm raised high.

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Correspondence with representatives of Harvester Press Microform Publications Limited on publishing speeches by JEP on Europe and the Common Market.

Scope and Contents Pamphlet including on pages 18-19 an article by WSC entitled "In truth and earnestness" on the price of peace, the future of the League of Nations Union, the Munich agreement and WSC's warnings, call for action and for Britain to lead. Pages 33-35 include the text of WSC's broadcast to the United States (16 October 1938, [United States National Broadcasting Company]) entitled "The defence of freedom and peace" on the need for the democracies, including the United States, to unite against the...

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Congratulations on a speech by JEP as Minister of Health on [raised charges for health care], with correspondents including: John Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance; Philip Holland [Parliamentary Private Secretary to Boyd-Carpenter]; Norman St John-Stevas [political correspondent of the Economist] (2); Iain Macleod.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on JEP's speech on the detention camp disaster in Kenya, with correspondents including: Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Boyd]; George Kitson Clark [Reader in Constitutional History, University of Cambridge]; Amie, Lady Noble; [John] Clement Jones, News Editor of the Wolverhampton Express and Star; [? John Astor];...

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Typescript and manuscript speech notes by LSA against Home Rule for Ireland, with print of an article by LSA for the Lancashire and Cheshire Junior Unionist.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

Scope and Contents Texts of LSA's speeches on subjects including: the Anschluss between Germany and Austria; unemployment and economic conditions; the Anglo-Italian Agreement (May 1938); the Budget (1938); confirmation of the Eire Agreement [Ireland]; National Service; colonial policy; Palestine; the international situation regarding preparation for war; securing supplies, particularly from the United States, which would otherwise go to Germany; the Education (Emergency) Bill; post-war Europe; war pensions and...

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Text.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Andrew Elliot, Director of Elliot Right Way Books, on the publication and sales of a collection of essays compiled by Diana Spearman, How the '70 Election Was Won, with special reference to JEP's speeches. Other correspondents include: Diana Spearman; John Wood, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs; Maurice Cowling on his contribution to the book. Also includes: notes of sales and book orders; issue of Gallup News, on the forecast of the 1964...