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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: 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 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 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 Invitations for PC to address various Chambers of Commerce, with correspondents including: François Ceyrac, President of the International Chamber of Commerce; Sir Richard Beaumont, Chairman of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce; Stephen Egerton, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on whether PC should support the Franco-Egyptian idea of international action to help bring peace to the Middle East, when speaking to the Arab Chamber of Commerce; Lord Caradon...

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Includes: report on PC's talks with Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, Yigal Allon, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, General Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, Defence Minister, on negotiations with Egypt; programme; later correspondence.

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...

Scope and Contents Annotated speeches and briefings for speeches given by PC as Secretary of State for Defence at various lunches and dinners and also Conservative Party Conferences on subjects including: defence; the role of the Royal Navy; the shipping industry; economic policy; the effect on defence of Britain's entry into the Common Market; the crisis in the Middle East [the Yom Kippur War], 1973; relations with the Soviet Union, the size of the Armed Forces; sharing the NATO burden in Europe with the...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Tape 1: PC's family; Wycombe Abbey [Buckinghamshire]; his grandfather 4th Lord Carrington and father 5th Lord Carrington; PC's childhood and time at Eton; Sandhurst. Tape 2: joining the Grenadier Guards in 1939 and PC's early experiences in the war. Tape 3: going to Australia as High Commissioner; life in Canberra; 1st Lord Slim, Governor General; Robert Menzies, Prime Minister; Lord Casey and Maie, Lady Casey; PC's travels round Australia. Tape 4: the visit to Australia...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Martin Gilliat, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, declining an invitation; Prince Michael of Kent; Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan on the difficulties of finding a resolution on Yugoslavia, 1992 and ways of avoiding a similar situation in Kosovo and the Gulf Crisis, enclosing papers from the Round Table conference on the crisis held at Amman, January 1991 and on the stalemate in the Middle East (8); Sir Robert Fellowes, Private Secretary to the...

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Annotated texts of speeches by PC on subjects including: defence policy, particularly arms control talks with the Soviet Union and unilateral disarmament; the Atlantic Alliance (Alastair Buchan memorial lecture, April 1983); emerging antagonisms, particularly in the Middle East and Namibia; relations with Korea and the recovery of the world economy.

Scope and Contents Speech notes and annotated texts of speeches by PC on subjects including: procedures of the House of Lords; defence, mainly relating to the Soviet Union and defence cuts; the decline in Britain over the last 30 years and the state of the nation; maintaining democracy; the state of the economy; people, Parliament and the constitution; the Housing Finance Special Provisions Bill, October 1976; negotiations on the future of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; the situation in the Middle East...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by PC as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, on subjects including: the state of the newspaper industry, January 1967; decimalisation, January 1967; tribute to 1st Lord Kilmuir [earlier David Maxwell Fyfe], January 1967; the state of the economy, February 1967; the composition and role of the House, February 1967 (relating to the London Government Bill); the Six Day War, June 1967 and the failure of the United Nations to keep the peace; D Notices [to...

Scope and Contents Papers on PC's tour on behalf of the Rio-Tinto-Zinc Corporation Limited, Barclays Bank and also Margaret Thatcher [Leader of the Conservative Party], including: programmes; letter on arrangements from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; note of PC's meeting with Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria on the situation in the Middle East, particularly the American 'step by step' approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict; rough notes by PC on the tour of the Middle East; FCO briefing; note on Cairo...

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.