Scope and Contents Letters and minutes between LSA and Milner on subjects including: policy on Ireland; the lack of organisation for recruitment and training on the outbreak of war; the campaign for conscription or National Service; the stalemate on the Western Front; the Dardanelles Campaign and the situation in the Balkans; the need for a change in Government and more concentration on the Empire, rather than Britain's place in Europe; David Lloyd-George's new coalition Government, and reasons for Milner not...

Scope and Contents Letters and minutes between LSA and Milner on subjects including: Milner's new position as Secretary of State for the Colonies and LSA's position as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies; the Raw Materials Board; policy on Cyprus; Portuguese East Africa [later Mozambique]; free trade within the League of Nations; Milner being pulled out from the Colonial Office and sent to the Versailles Peace Conference [France]; the reconstruction of East Africa; Syria; Imperial Preference; the...

Scope and Contents Texts, drafts and speaking notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: tribute to Sir [Harold] Leslie Boyce; Empire or Commonwealth; the place of the Commonwealth in the world; Imperial Preference; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; tributes to 1st Lord Simon and Francis Pember, former Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; Canada and the Empire; Chaim Weizmann and Manchester's contribution to the cause of Zionism; the centenary of 1st Lord Milner's birth; the United Europe...