Scope and Contents Includes: rough notes of NK’s meeting with Senator Joseph Biden, Jan 1988, particularly on the economic situation, a "new Bretton Woods" agreement and the INF treaty [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] and arms control; briefing for a meeting with the American Ambassador to Britain [? Charles Price] on arms control; correspondence with Biden (2), Price and Ronald Brown, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; briefings for meetings with Paul Warnke and Henry Catto, American Ambassador...

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Memoranda and comments on defence, particularly writing a pamphlet on Cold War defence, but also on Army requirements, German attitudes to rearmament and mountain warfare, from contributors including: Leo Amery; Lieutenant General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell; Reginald Paget; Major-General H L Davis; Basil Liddell Hart; Lieutenant General Sir Francis Tuker; Major John Fuller.

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Notes from meetings, cuttings and memoranda on Cold War defence, including papers and comments by Leo Amery, Basil Liddell Hart and Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell on subjects including: a general policy for the Army; rearmament; a meeting with the Templer Committee on cuts to peace time establishments; the rearmament of Germany and Japan.

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Papers and cuttings on Cold War defence, including: notes from League meetings; notes from Basil Liddell Hart on subjects including Soviet forces in Europe and impressions from a tour of Europe; letter from Leo Amery to the Times on the unprepared state of Western Europe; Conservative Research Department memoranda on defence, particularly on Defence White Papers.

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Notes from meetings, cuttings and memoranda on defence, including papers and comments by Leo Amery, Basil Liddell Hart and Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker on subjects including:
new tactics for NATO; lessons from the Normandy campaign of 1944; a European Army; battles in North Africa.

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Minutes of meetings and papers, including: paper by JA on the Suez Canal Zone [Egypt], with notes from a discussion on the paper; comments by Sir Desmond Morton on an article by Basil Liddell Hart about Soviet military thinking; comments by Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker on the defence estimates; an African Army; the balance between arms and numbers of troops.

Scope and Contents Papers and cuttings on Cold War defence, including: papers on atomic warfare; defence estimates; rough notes by Leo Amery; draft by JA for the League report, "Do we still need an Army?"; notes and correspondence on the draft report, with correspondents including Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Basil Liddell Hart, Reginald Paget, Major-General Laurence Grand, Lord Balfour of Inchrye, 1st Lord Hore-Belisha, Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell, Major-General Horace Birks,...

Scope and Contents General correspondence with JA as secretary of the League, mainly on distribution and writing of the League report ["The Army in the Nuclear Age"], and membership of the League, with correspondents including: Edward Beddington-Behrens (4); Fitzroy Maclean, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell (11); Woodrow Wyatt (2); Norman Gibbs [Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford]; Reginald Paget (5); Lord Balfour of...

Scope and Contents Includes: press cuttings on defence matters, including a Times supplement on the Territorial Army; memoranda by LSA on the most efficient economic method of warfare and the task of the British Army; review of the first year of NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), by General Dwight D Eisenhower [Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Forces in Europe]; copy of the Army Estimates, 1952-53, with a related memorandum and statement by Antony Head, Secretary of State...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence, mainly between LSA (as Chairman) and other representatives of the Army League, including Edward Beddington-Behrens (4) and 1st Lord Iliffe, President, with other correspondents including: General Sir Montagu Stopford, Chairman of the Army Cadet Force Association (2); Major-General John Latter, Chairman of the Combined Cadet Force Association, on mountaineering courses (2); Major-General 2nd Lord Bridgeman, Deputy President of the Army Cadet Force Association, on...

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Press cuttings on defence in the nuclear era, including letters and articles from Basil Liddell Hart.

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Defence estimates, Parliamentary publications and other published material on defence issues.

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Drafts of the report, "The Task of the British Army" [later entitled "The Army in the Nuclear Age"], with comments and minutes of a meeting on the report.

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Drafts of the League report on defence [later entitled "The Army in the Nuclear Age"].

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Drafts of the League report on defence [later entitled "The Army in the Nuclear Age"].

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Drafts and proofs of the League report , including correspondence on the printing and publication of the report, galley proofs and the final corrected copy.

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Draft League report with slight annotations, also including copies of the original League report "A Policy for the Army" (1937) with associated press cuttings, "The Army in the Nuclear Age" (1955) and an issue of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s report on foreign affairs (1951).

Scope and Contents Typescript texts and drafts of articles and some broadcasts on subjects including: General Maxime Weygand; the Local Defence Volunteers; co-operation between the Army and Royal Air Force, particularly relating to operations in France; the need for strong leadership and a small War Cabinet in the direction of the war effort; whether the Royal Air Force should retain its own authority; General Alphonse Georges; France as Britain’s ally; the war of nerves with Germany; Adolf Hitler’s tactics;...

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Pamphlets, conference papers, articles and correspondence with historians on subjects including: the effect of the German-Soviet Treaty of 1970; Germany's Ostpolitik; Stalin; 20 years of NATO; the Anglo-Portuguese alliance; the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; Britain's entry into the European Economic Community.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the Association, of which FR was chairman. Correspondents, mainly thanking FR for sending them various reports, include: 6th Lord Carrington, Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Defence (2); Francis Pym, Secretary of State for Defence (4); [Leonard] James Callaghan; David Steel [Leader of the Liberal Party]; Frederick Mulley, Secretary of State for Defence (4); Sir Ian Gilmour, Secretary of State for Defence; David Owen, Foreign Secretary (2); 1st Lord...

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Papers and correspondence, mainly with Eugene Rostow, President of the Association, with other correspondents including: [Warren] Randolph Burgess, Vice-Chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States; Sir Alexander Douglas-Home, Foreign Secretary [earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel] on Rostow's view of the Middle East crisis.

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NK interview rushes nos 28 and 29 on Labour’s position on defence, particularly nuclear weapons.

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NK interview rush no 30 on Labour’s position on defence, particularly nuclear weapons.

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Includes: part of Jimmy Young's Interview with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on subjects including: European political and monetary union; European free trade; the reunification of Germany; the Poll Tax; Labour's success in the polls.

Also includes BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme, "A Market for Security" on NATO and European defence issues.

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Interview on the Party Conference, mainly on Labour's defence policy following arms reduction talks between the United States and Soviet Union, and also on issues with the extreme Left and a shareholding economy.