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Scope and Contents Texts of articles by LSA on subjects including: the future of Cyprus, with a suggested draft constitution; LSA's review of "Government by Committee", by Kenneth Wheare [Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford]; racism and the colour problem, particularly in South Africa; tributes to Sir Winston Churchill, including LSA's foreword to "The Young Winston Churchill" by John Marsh; the change in Conservative policy on Imperial economic...

Scope and Contents Includes: draft papers between JA and [?] Eldon Griffiths commenting on the Helsinki Accord [on Security and Co-operation in Europe]; conflict studies paper by Stewart Menaul on SALT II [Strategic Arms Limitation Talks], 1979; paper by [Arthur] John Reddaway, former Administrative Secretary, Cyprus, "Reflections on an unnecessary conflict, Cyprus 1955-58"; collected letters to the Daily Telegraph by Louis FitzGibbon, 1969-89; local newspaper criticising JA's record as MP for Brighton,...

Scope and Contents Minutes and papers from various committees of which JA was a member, including: the Museum of Empire and Commonwealth Trust; the Conservative Council on Eastern Europe; the Parliamentary Maritime Group's South West Atlantic Group (relating to the Falklands Islands, particularly fisheries and a new Antarctic patrol vessel to replace HMS Endurance); the British Horn of Africa Council (see also 1/10/38-42); Friends of the Union, on Northern Ireland, including correspondence with Ian Gow; the...

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Subjects include: local transportation and distribution of supplies in time of war; the situation in the Mediterranean; the defences of Malta, Egypt and Cyprus; maintenance of overseas commerce in time of war.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Cyril Alington (2); Sir Carleton Allen, congratulating LSA on a tribute to 1st Lord Milner; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; Sir Claude Auchinleck; Frank Aydelotte [former American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees] (2); 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Empire Industries Association (2); Jacques Bardoux; Sir Ernest Barker (2); 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier (Francis) Vernon Willey]; Sir Harry Batterbee on the situation in New Zealand; Sir Alfred Beit; Princess Marthe Bibesco...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 9th Lord Albemarle [earlier Lord Bury]; John Allen; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Katharine, Duchess of Atholl; Clement Attlee, recalling the fall of the Chamberlain Government and the draft letter by himself, LSA and others asking Winston Churchill to remove [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax from his new Cabinet; Archduke Robert of Austria; Frank Aydelotte; Cyril Bailey; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye; Thomas Balogh, with a memorandum on the...

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Includes papers under the heading France (SPRS 1/134-137), which covers papers on de Gaulle and the British Military Mission to de Gaulle in 1940-41.

Scope and Contents (1) Miscellaneous correspondence and related material concerning the Nautical Almanac Office. There are papers regarding staff finance, including concession passes issued to staff, salaries, reference sheets and data supplied by the N.A.O. to H.G. Barker, Secretary and Cashier for the Royal Observatory, for making payments. There is also correspondence regarding Hollerith equipment for the N.A.O.; telegrams from the Colonial Office regarding Greenwich Mean Time and British Summer Time in the...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: LSA's scheme for a new constitution in Cyprus; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; the Suez Group and Government arguments for withdrawing British troops from the Canal Zone [Egypt]; the hydrogen bomb debate; Julian Amery's biography of Joseph Chamberlain; Julian Amery's experiences at Strasbourg [France] as a delegate to the Consultative Assembly of Council of Europe; LSA's wish to stand as MP for Oxford; equipping mountain troops with skis. Also...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, President of the Paneuropean Union, on subjects including Cyprus and European integration, also including: copies of Coudenhove-Kalergi's correspondence with Paul-Henri Spaak, Secretary-General of NATO, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece, [Leonard] James Callaghan [Labour spokesman on colonial affairs], Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, and Sir [Allan] John Harding [Governor of Cyprus]; minutes of meetings; press releases from...

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Two newspaper reports from the 'Guardian' on Greek-Cypriot relations with Turkey.

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Papers and correspondence on Cyprus, including: correspondence with Henry Hopkinson [Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, later 1st Lord Colyton] (2), Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale] and Frederic Bennett; papers by Leo Amery on a settlement for Cyprus; note on the Cypriot-Turkish point of view; note from the Conservative Commonwealth Council; summary note by Patrick Maitland.

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Various papers on Cyprus, including: copy of the Cyprus Bill, 1960; survey of the Cyprus question from the Turkish side; statement of policy, 1958; Council of Europe study on recent Cypriot history; notes for British servicemen on why they were in Cyprus; statement by JA on Cyprus, 1956; collected letters to the press; report from Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale] on a visit to Cyprus and Greece, 1955.

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Includes: message from NK to Cyprus on the thirtieth anniversary of independence; briefing on intercommunal talks between George Vassiliou, President of Cyprus, and Rauf Denktash, Turkish Cypriot leader; notes of meeting with Dimitris Christophias [General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People], Dec 1989; correspondence with Cypriot politicians; Labour statements on Cyprus.

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The papers cover every aspect of Lord Noel-Baker's very full and varied career and include constituency papers, Labour Party material, extensive sections on domestic and international affairs, peace and disarmament, sport, books and articles, speeches and correspondence.

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Statements and correspondence with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on security arrangements in Cyprus following security breaches, including the published report of the Security Commission.

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Papers comprising lectures, official reports and correspondence, mainly about Second World War naval operations in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, 1941-5, and the Cyprus Emergency, 1955-9.

Scope and Contents Briefings for JA on subjects including: a meeting between Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of Cyprus, [later Lord Caradon] and Archbishop Makarios [President of Cyprus] on settling remaining issues; keeping nuclear weapons on Cyprus; the sovereign base areas; wireless and radar installations; financial negotiations; tactics for the negotiations; Naafi [The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes]. Also includes: letters from Makarios and Fazil Kutchuk [President and Vice-President of Cyprus];...

Scope and Contents Telegrams from JA's first visit to Cyprus (and also before and after the visit), between JA, the Colonial Office, Sir Hugh Foot [Governor of Cyprus, later Lord Caradon], the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Iain Macleod] the Foreign Office and the British embassies in Ankara [Turkey] and Athens [Greece] on the independence negotiations, particularly administration of sovereign base areas. Also includes draft accounts of meetings between JA, Archbishop Makarios and Fazil Kutchuk...

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Copies of telegrams from Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of Cyprus, [later Lord Caradon] to the Foreign Office on the independence negotiations.

Scope and Contents Copies of telegrams to Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of Cyprus, [later Lord Caradon] from the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office and the Foreign Secretary [John Selwyn-Lloyd] and Secretary of State for the Colonies [Iain Macleod] on the independence negotiations. Also includes some press cuttings and records of Foreign Office meetings on Cyprus in Jan 1960, including conversations between Selwyn Lloyd, Archbishop Makarios and Fazil Kutchuk [President and Vice-President of Cyprus], and...

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Copies of telegrams to Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of Cyprus, [later Lord Caradon] from the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office and the Foreign Secretary [John Selwyn-Lloyd] and Secretary of State for the Colonies [Iain Macleod] on the independence negotiations.

Scope and Contents Diary covering Charles Peake’s time from 2nd December 1956 to 5th April 1957 when he worked as British Ambassador to Athens.Subjects covered include: work on departmental papers for the Colonial Policy Committee (CPC); discussions with colleagues on Cyprus constitutional affairs; Anthony Eden’s difficulties in re-establishing relationships with the White House [in the post-Suez era]; meeting of the CPC; addressing CPC at Downing Street; meeting colleagues at Brooks’s Club;...