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Mainly letters from JA to Leo Amery from Belgrade [Yugoslavia] and also Istanbul [Turkey], August 1939-July 1940, mainly on his work as a press attaché in Belgrade. Also includes a letter from Sir Ronald Campbell, British Minister at Belgrade to Leo Amery on JA's arrival at his embassy, letters from [Benedict] Humphrey Sumner, Balliol College, University of Oxford, on JA's future (2), and a tribute to 1st Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness].

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Was previously labelled as "Press attaché".

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Was previously labelled as "Introduction to Yugoslav politics".

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This section of the archive includes some source material, notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs of JA's autobiography. It was written in the 1960s (though not published until 1973), after JA lost first his ministerial office and then his Parliamentary seat after the General Elections of 1964 and 1966. Asked by the publishers Hutchinson Limited to write his political memoirs, JA preferred instead to write about his earlier career (being unable to write about sensitive recent events, and...

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Chapter 26 was previously labelled as "Yugoslav might have been".

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This section of the archive includes some source material, notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs of JA's autobiography. It was written in the 1960s (though not published until 1973), after JA lost first his ministerial office and then his Parliamentary seat after the General Elections of 1964 and 1966. Asked by the publishers Hutchinson Limited to write his political memoirs, JA preferred instead to write about his earlier career (being unable to write about sensitive recent events, and...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Conservatism and the future [by Leo Amery, see AMEL 1/6/45]; resistance by the partisans in Yugoslavia, 1943 (from various news reports); James Burnham's book "The Managerial Revolution"; Winston Churchill's biography of his father, "Lord Randolph Churchill"; JA's visit to the Eastern Vilayets of Turkey, 1948 [see AMEJ 4/1/3], including extracts from JA's diary; Canada's future as part of the Commonwealth or in closer union with the United States; Cold War tensions with the...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the situation in Greece; the threat of war from the Soviet Union; Britain, Greece and the Balkans; Fitzroy Maclean's book "Eastern Approaches"; JA's visit to the Eastern Vilayets of Turkey, 1948 [see AMEJ 4/1/3 and 7/1/1]; the situation in the Middle East; impressions from JA's tour of Canada, 1949; Greece and her neighbours in the Balkans; resistance warfare; Imperial Preference and the Conservative Party; the Communist danger to the Commonwealth and Empire;...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly on individual cases of Yugoslav refugees looking for employment, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada, and earlier Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre] on handing over Yugoslav generals accused of collaboration to the current Government of Yugoslavia, and the repatriation of Yugoslavs who had fought for Germany; Christopher Mayhew, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the Yugoslav...

Scope and Contents General papers and correspondence on Balkan affairs, including: copy of Hansard with a debate on the Balkans, 1949, with a Conservative Research Department paper on Greece and Yugoslavia and a record of meetings on policy towards Yugoslavia, with JA, Fitzroy Maclean [former commander of the military mission to the Yugoslav partisans], Charles Mott-Radclyffe, Henry Hopkinson [joint director of the Conservative Research Department, later 1st Lord Colyton] and others; correspondence with JA's...

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; why Italy should not become a German ally; the Balkans; commentaries on the war (1940, including Norway and Germany's...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] on criticism of convoy commodores and of the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (3); the Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on concerns about the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (2); Sir Walford Selby [former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna] on uniting the anti-Nazi elements in Austria (2); 1st Lord Sankey; Sir John Anderson [Lord President of the Council,...

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Includes:
HAP's logbook as Naval Attaché at Athens [Greece], Ankara [Turkey], Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia], with letter to HAP from N Christitch, and HAP letters to JP.
2 letters from Admiral of the Fleet Sir [Alfred] Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff] to HAP.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Marina, Duchess of Kent, thanking LSA for his sympathy [on the death of George, Duke of Kent]; 1st Lord Lang on Mohandas Gandhi's irresponsibility; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Viceroy of India, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on the actions of Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps [during his mission to the Indian Congress], Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan [Agent-General to Government of India in China] and on the question of his own successor (3); Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later...

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...

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Minutes on subjects including: the energy crisis; Concorde; relations between Europe and the United States; oil supplies and European foreign policy; a meeting with Egon Bahr; JA's visit to Yugoslavia and meeting with President Josip Tito; progress towards European Monetary Union; European policy on the Mediterranean.

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For broadcasts to Albania, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Rumania, Spain, Yugoslavia

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Yugoslavia

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Papers from CS's visit to Yugoslavia for trade talks, April-May 1974, including: itinerary and programmes; press release; briefing notes; draft speech notes for CS; press cuttings; correspondence on arrangements and press coverage of the visit.

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Booklets on Communism in Jugoslavia

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Draft lecture notes on Resistance movements in time of war, particularly relating to JA's own experiences in Yugoslavia.

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Subjects include: the military and political situation in the Middle East, particularly Syria; contacts with Yugoslav Government refugees; the need for improved command structure in Cairo [Egypt] to oversee the different services; future tensions between the Arabs and Jews; escorting a party of Yugoslavs back to Montenegro; the need to provide more support for the Yugoslavs.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: JA's idea for Balkan Federation; JA's frustration with his health and trying to find a new posting; the Cairo Conference, Nov 1943; trying to find a Parliamentary seat in partnership with Randolph Churchill; a visit to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia; the situation in Yugoslavia; joining the British mission in Albania; serving on the staff of General Carton de Wiart, Winston Churchill's personal representative with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, in China; trying to find a...

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Letters sent while John Julius was on his way from Belgrade to take up his new post as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Beirut [Lebanon] and from Beirut itself, on subjects including: disapproval of the new British Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Sir John Nicholls and his wife; the visit to Belgrade by Sir Laurence Olivier and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company, with their production of Titus Andronicus. Also includes a postcard from Vivien Leigh.

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Letters sent while John Julius was working as Third Secretary at the British Embassy in Belgrade, on subjects including the visit to Yugoslavia by Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union, June 1955.