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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.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Bernard Braine on the campaign to support the people of Banaba, or Ocean Island, in separating from the Gilbert Islands [later Kiribati]; Anthony Dyson, asking AFB to sponsor his charter of homosexual rights (enclosed) (2); Dorothy Detzer Denny on AFB's autobiography ["Towards Tomorrow"] (2); Michael Holroyd on speaking to AFB about his biography of George Bernard Shaw; Lord Hale on his admiration and gratitude for AFB's help in the House of Lords and on his...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Noel-Buxton on subjects including his portrait of AFB; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway on subjects including AFB's book ["The Colonial Revolution"]; Phyllis Brockway on "The Colonial Revolution"; David Warren, President of the Oxford Union Society, inviting AFB to speak at a debate on workers' control (3); Charles Douglas-Home on his biography of Evelyn Baring; [Harold] Julian Amery, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the case of the Chilean...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on AFB's visit to Jordan as part of an Inter-Parliamentary Union delegation, and on the Middle East more generally, include: Jennie Lee [Janet Bevan], Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science, on British Council interest in mounting performances at Roman sites in Jordan (2); Barbara Castle, Minister of Overseas Development, on proposed development projects in Jordan; Afek Al Fayez, Speaker of the Jordanian Parliament, and Said Al Mufti,...

Scope and Contents Includes: summary from GK of his visit to Israel, June 1967, with the comment by Wilson that it "should be carefully locked away. Or swallowed"; briefing note from Marcus Sieff on a proposed Israeli oil pipeline between the Red Sea at Eilat and the Eastern Mediterranean at Ashdod, which GK passed on to Wilson; note from GK to Wilson on his meeting with the Israeli Ambassador, Aharon Remez, October 1967, on Israeli public opinion about Britain and talks between the United States and Arab...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and other papers concerning the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU). Correspondents include: Sir Anthony Buzzard, Chairman of the British Council of Churches Advisory Committee on the Middle East, enclosing notes and copies of his letters to the press on the Middle East peace talks (3); John Reddaway, CAABU Director of Administration, on CAABU's committee structure; Lord Wells-Pestell on his memorandum on the treatment of Jews in Arab countries;...

Scope and Contents General correspondence on subjects including: Israeli practices in the Palestinian Occupied Territories; invitations and requests for help; statements on the Middle East by the British Council of Churches; the inclusion of parents' birth place in the 1971 Census, queried by Ruth Glass, Director of the Centre for Urban Studies, University College London; a disability allowance for the blind; Questions raised by AFB in the House of Lords [Hansards enclosed] on a note from the Soviet Union...

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.