Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships within the Foreign Office, in particular with Anthony Eden; Cadogan's insight into the Axis campaigns in the Balkans; diplomatic concerns regarding Britain's activities in North Africa and Persia [now Iran]; reception of intelligence in advance of Hitler’s planned attack on Russia; Cadogan's opinions and influence upon Churchill's communications with Roosevelt, the voyage to the USA aboard the H.M.S. Prince of Wales and the drafting of the Joint...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the Foreign Office, War Cabinet, and Special Operations Executive; Cadogan's role and interventions in ongoing strategic discussions between Churchill and Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Stalin, and De Gaulle; Cadogan's opinions on the Allied negotiations over future Soviet frontiers and the second front; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits, and the hosting of Soviet diplomats in Edinburgh and London; plans for an Allied...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's role as an intermediary between Churchill and statesmen including Anthony Eden and Charles De Gaulle; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits; Turkey's relationship with the Allied powers and strained relations with the Soviet Union, including discussions with Ismet Inönü at the Adana Conference; the increasingly hostile relations between the Soviet Union and Poland...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits; ongoing disputes between the Soviet Union and Poland relating to borders and the Curzon Line; meetings and preparations for Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings; notes on the progress of the Italian Campaign and Allied progress in France, Belgium, and Greece; discussions on 'World Organisation' and post-war planning; concerns...

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Diary of Cadogan's involvement in the Dumbarton Oaks and Second Quebec Conferences in the autumn of 1944. Subjects covered include: discussions surrounding the formation of the United Nations Security Council, including negotiations over voting procedure and rights of veto for member states; interaction with the press and photographers; Cadogan's reaction to hearing his own voice on a Paramount film of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference; and comments on travel, dinners, and books read.

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits, including meetings at Alupka, Athens, Cairo, Washington, and San Francisco; Cadogan's role in the Malta Conference, Yalta Conference, and the United Nations Conference on International Organisation; the Allied invasion of Germany; negotiations over the Polish question and Soviet actions in Eastern Europe; reactions to the death of...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business; Chatham House meetings on Anglo-American relations; discussions regarding Drogheda Report; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's relationship with the government, secret intelligence, and the Independent Television Authority, the BBC's responses to the government White...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; private meetings with Foreign Office officials including Ivone Kirkpatrick; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business, including news of crisis and responses to nationalisation by Gamal Abdel Nassar; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's relationship with the government, competition with commercial television,...

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Reports and correspondence.

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These volumes were apparently acquired by Lord Lloyd towards the end of his period as commercial attaché at Constantinople. They contain copies of the telegrams which passed between the Sublime Porte and its ambassadors and were probably kept by the telegraph office at Constantinople.

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Correspondence, particularly with the Foreign Office and Sir Geoffrey Archer and Sir John Maffey [later 1st Lord Rugby], Governors of Sudan.

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Cabinet papers on the Middle East, diary of Lloyd's tour of Sudan and subject files on Egypt.

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Official telegrams received and sent, with some private telegrams and material on an irrigation scheme.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (5 October 1946, Conservative Party conference, Blackpool) entitled "Every Dog His Day" on subjects including: criticism of the Labour government; the need for a concerted opposition to Communism; foreign policy; the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union; post war reconstruction; the electoral system; taxation; housing; the coal industry; agriculture; nationalisation; foreign policy and Indian independence; and the need for increased Conservative...

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Speeches.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on subjects including: WSC taking over at the Foreign Office; aims to conclude a truce in Korea and the repatriation of prisoners-of-war; the situation in Indo-China [later Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam]; the evacuation of Abadan, Egypt, the new Egyptian ruling junta and negotiations on the reduction of British forces in the Canal Zone; the Soviet occupation of East Germany [later part of Germany]; relations with West Germany [later part of...

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JA's papers as Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including personal correspondence, minutes on foreign affairs and JA's visits abroad.

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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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The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.

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Publicity on foreign affairs.

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Lecture by George Walden on Britain's post-Cold War foreign policy.

Scope and Contents Paper on subjects including: the position of Ibn Rashid as Chief of the central Arabian tribe, Shammar; traditional enmity between Ibn Rashid and Ibn Saud; observations on Ibn Saud "in astuteness...unequalled in the Arabian peninsula"; loyalty against Turkey; information about their followers and Ibn Saud being followed by the Ikhwan "the fanatical puritans of the Islamic creed"; prediction that the best outcome would be a balance of power between Ibn Rashid and Ibn Saud; and Ibn Saud's...

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Correspondence as Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], including letters to and from Indian princes and chiefs, telegrams from Afghanistan and Persia [Iran], and subject files.

Scope and Contents Report by the Political Department of the India Office on subjects and issues including: the position of King Hussain as the guardian of the sacred shrine at Mecca; Ibn Saud's position as 'dynastic head' of a confederation of tribes and of the Wahabi (within which is an 'inner circle of Puritanical fanatics', the Ikhwan); military possibilities of the Ikhwan; the danger of Ibn Saud losing control and the Ikhwan turning against other "Mahomedans" [Muslims]; Ibn Saud taking over the province...

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Launch of Labour's campaign on foreign and defence policy, with statements by NK, [David] Denzil Davies [chief opposition spokesman on defence and disarmament] and Denis Healey [opposition spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs] and questions from the audience.