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13pp typescript account; photograph of map of Sinai [Egypt] and southern Palestine and Transjordan [Jordan].

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8pp duplicated typescript account: photograph of map with route inscribed thereon.

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Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: the slowness of the French withdrawal from Syria and Lebanon; the authoritarianism of the Labour Government; the Palestine problem; France’s debt to General Charles de Gaulle; ELS’s recent visit to the Middle East (October-November 1946).

Also includes correspondence with publishers and the press.

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Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: difficulties between Arabs and Jews in Palestine; whether co-operation in the Middle East between Britain, France and the United States was possible; the partition of Palestine.

Also includes correspondence with publishers and the press, including Ivor Brown, Editor of the Observer.

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Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: British policy in the Middle East; the partition of Palestine; the status of Jerusalem; the consequences of a Communist Government in Italy; the memoirs of General Georges Catroux; Marshal Philippe Petain.

Also includes associated correspondence, with individuals including Paul Reynaud.

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Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: British policy in the Middle East; a plan for Palestine; British foreign policy; the chances of another crisis in the Levant.

Scope and Contents Texts of broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: Fairbridge Farm Schools in Australia; Empire defence; the economics of Empire; the 1935 Peace Ballot; the Empire and world peace; the politician versus the businessman; the Jewish settlement in Palestine; the Empire Producers Organisation; the way of peace; Germany's debt to European civilisation; tributes to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; why Italy should not...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Rosalind, Duchess of Abercorn; Konrad Adenauer [Chancellor of West Germany, later part of Germany]; Cyril Alington; John Allen; John Astor [owner of the Times] on LSA's hopes for an Imperial Preference policy being unrealistic; Nancy, Lady Astor; Archduke Robert of Austria (2); Thomas Balogh; Jacques Bardoux; [George] Herbert Baxter (2); Edward Beddington-Behrens; Kenneth Goodenough, British High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; Princess Marthe...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir John Arkwright; Stanley Baldwin [Leader of the Conservative Party] on LSA taking over the Oxford University constituency and on articles by LSA (2); Sir Reginald Banks; Jacques Bardoux; Richard Bennett [Prime Minister of Canada] on visiting LSA; Sir Henry Birchenough on the Empire Economic Relations Professorship at the University of London; Mabel, Lady Birchenough; Sir Basil Blackett [President, British Social Hygiene Council] on LSA's work for the council;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, warning LSA that by writing as a private individual on military questions (while also Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet), he was acting improperly; Lord Curzon, Lord President of the Council, commenting on a paper by LSA on foreign affairs and on the future of Palestine (3); Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, thanking LSA for his congratulations over the Palestine Campaign and commenting on the political situation in Palestine and...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Harold Armstrong on the history of the South African War, particularly ill-treatment of pro-British Boers (2); Mary Arnold-Forster; Cyril Bailey [President of the Classical Association]; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on subjects including thanking LSA for his sympathy during the Abdication Crisis (4); Jacques Bardoux on subjects including the Franco-Soviet Pact and the crisis in Europe over Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] (4); 2nd Lord Beatty...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Joe Amery (3); Harold Armstrong; Mary Arnold-Forster; 1st Lord Baden-Powell; Sir Abe Bailey; Stanley Baldwin (2); Richard Bennett [Canadian Leader of the Opposition] on the proposed Anglo-American trade treaty; Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London] on the Imperial Conference; Edward Keeling, Secretary of the British School of Archæology in Iraq, inviting LSA to become President of the school; James Butler; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams on LSA's being included in the new Cabinet; Harold Armstrong on LSA's advice to delay publishing his unfavourable biography of Winston Churchill or revise it (6); Sir Abe Bailey (3); Stanley Baldwin on a poem by LSA; Jacques Bardoux; Robert Bower, RAF Coastal Command; Sir Frank Fox (2); [Edward] Leslie Burgin [Minister of Supply] on buying policy; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] on subjects including a proposal to give a copy of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: George Shreeve, Deputy Director-General, British Council; Sir Ronald Adam, Chairman and Director-General of the British Council; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali on the massacres following the hand-over of power in India; John Astor [Director of the Phoenix Assurance Company]; Clement Attlee, Prime Minister; Sir Girja Bajpai [Secretary-General of Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India]; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alexander [Governor-General of Canada]; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on subjects including recalling his time as Assistant Editor of the Outlook with J L Garvin (2); Clement Attlee, Prime Minister; Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees; Thomas Balogh; Jacques Bardoux on the decline of the Communist Party in France and the death of his wife (2); Sir Ernest Barker; Enid Moberly Bell; 1st Lord Birdwood; Robert Boothby [delegate...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches from New Zealand on subjects including co-operation and unity within the Empire, the Imperial Conferences, immigration, trade and economic development, British achievements during and since the war, Imperial defence, comparisons between the Empire and the League of Nations, British foreign policy in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and the Indian Ocean, the Empire Marketing Board, the economic situation in New Zealand, Imperial Preference, and...

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Memoranda on the future of the college and its policy and organisation, with the Principal's report for 1925-26.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, Governor of British Guiana [later Guyana] on subjects including constitutional reform and the report of the British Guiana Commission, Hunter-Rodwell's wish to find another post, an anti-British campaign and the possibility of selling part of the colony to a foreign power; 1st Lord Plumer, High Commissioner for Palestine, on subjects including the financial situation of the Palestinian Government, relations with the French, particularly...

Scope and Contents Notes on subjects including: historical relations between Germany and France, particularly on Prince Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, and the Franco-Prussian War, Serbia and the Balkans, German colonial policy in Africa, Germany's alliance with Turkey and general German policy, 1894-1904; the Casablanca Incident [Morocco] of 1908; German attempts to prevent an alliance between Britain, France and Russia (1904-5); the Conference of Algeciras [Spain] (1906); Kaiser Wilhelm II; the...

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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Also includes a paper recommending a Jerusalem Institute of Higher Studies.

Scope and Contents Texts and cuttings of letters from LSA to the press, with related correspondence, on subjects including: the Commonwealth Conference (1952) and the economic imbalance between the Commonwealth and the United States; the place of the Commonwealth in the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; production and exports to the United States; American tariffs; trade within the Empire; the need for a balanced economy; the stability of sterling; Commonwealth membership, particularly relating to the Gold...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Samuel Wilson, Governor of Jamaica 1924-25, then Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, on subjects including Wilson's visit to Nigeria and the Gold Coast [later Ghana] in 1928, the new constitution and Jamaican elections in 1925, Wilson's difficulties with the Jamaica Imperial Association, Wilson's officials and efficiency measures; Sir Reginald Stubbs, Governor of Jamaica, 1926-32, on subjects including Stubbs's wish to move to Malaya [later...

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Papers and correspondence on Palestine and Israel, including comments on NK’s visit to the Middle East in February 1988, and briefings for and notes of meetings with: Yitzak Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel; Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister; Lionel Kopelowitz, of the Board of Deputies of British Jews; Yosef Beilin, Political Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry; Chaim Herzog, Prime Minister of Israel; Haim Bar-Lev, General Secretary of the Israeli Labour Party.

Scope and Contents Includes: correspondence with Prince Hassan of Jordan and Zaid Al-Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan, with a paper by Prince Hassan on the situation in the Middle East; briefing for and notes of meeting with Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt; briefings for meetings with Walid Jumblatt [leader of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party], Amine Gemayel, President of Lebanon, Farouk Al-Shara, Syrian Foreign Minister, and Farouk Khadoumi of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO);...