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Information papers and correspondence, mainly with the American Refugee Project and the Union of American Exiles in Britain, on American servicemen who had deserted and sought political asylum in Britain to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War ("draft dodgers''). Other correspondents include Baroness Birk and Mark Carlisle [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office].

Scope and Contents Correspondence on and drafts and final texts of articles by AFB sent to overseas newspapers and journals, mostly from the African and Asian press. Subjects of the articles include: revisiting Lincoln prison; Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; AFB's visit to the Soviet Union, 1965 [see also FEBR 2/10]; the Bou Saada project to grow crops in the Algerian desert [see also FEBR 2/10, 3/1 and 7/9]; the Vietnam War; the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation; the responsibilities of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Baroness Jackson of Lodworth [earlier Barbara Ward] on how she was looking forward to discussing the environment and Third World development with AFB after her convalescence; [Sven] Olof Palme, Chairman of the Swedish SDP, on the loss of the Swedish elections; Louise Ouwerkerk; [Anthony] Tony Benn, thanking AFB for attending his meeting in Bristol on racism and on people's respect for him; Lord Harris of Greenwich, Minister of State, Home Office.Also...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: William Warbey, inviting AFB to a conference on Vietnam, held in Florence [Italy], April 1965 and on his plan for a Peace in Vietnam committee (4), also enclosing letters from [John] Jeremy Thorpe and Shirley Williams on the plan; Philip Noel-Baker [earlier Philip Baker] on an open letter to be signed by Nobel Peace Prize winners in protest against the Vietnam War; Frederic Smedley, enclosing a copy of his testimony at an informal Congressional hearing in New York...

Scope and Contents Copies of articles by AFB as Chairman of the Movement for Colonial Freedom [later Liberation] on subjects including: visits to India, including the famine, progress in modernisation and hostilities with Pakistan over Kashmir; the future of Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; the independence movement in Africa; the Vietnam War; the future of Mauritius; the Government's restriction of Commonwealth immigration; the state of the United Nations; the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the...

Scope and Contents Includes: a copy of Hansard and letters from Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms, Lord Gardiner, Lord Chancellor and Sir George Mills, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, on AFB's introduction to the House of Lords, 1964; notes (some in shorthand) from a visit to the Soviet Union, 1965, mainly relating to the Vietnam War, including [?] speech notes and notes of meetings, with Nguyen Van Dong, Deputy Chief of the National Liberation Front's Permanent Representation in the Soviet Union, Yuri...

Scope and Contents Various papers, including: article by AFB on his visit to Cairo [Egypt], and a report of his speech on Palestine, 1960; index lists of AFB's speeches in the House of Lords, 1965-66, with a marked up copy of his speech when moving the Second Reading of the Racial and Religious Discrimination Bill, December 1966, for use in his book "This Shrinking Explosive World"; bulletins from the British Council for Peace in Vietnam, 1967-68, including AFB's article "Our Reply to Saigon"; tributes to AFB...

Scope and Contents Side 1 contains a rehearsal of a presentation on the Economics of Emerging Nations on subjects including the gap between richer and poorer countries causing resentment and encouraging people to turn to communism; economies of various countries across the world; Malaysia being the richest country in Asia; the need for gradual improvements to the prosperity of poor countries to avoid the “revolutionary situation”; inequality in distribution of wealth inside of countries and the need for social...

Scope and Contents Includes: press cuttings on AFB's peerage, 1964 and of his article on being in the House of Lords, 1965; notes for AFB's speech in Canada to the New Democratic Party on the work of Britain's Labour Government, the end of colonialism and securing peace in Vietnam, 1965; copy of a letter from [Robert] Michael Stewart, Foreign Secretary, on the difficulty of negotiations over Vietnam, 1965; article on Albert Einstein and the War Resisters' International, 1967; programme for Africa Freedom Day,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on the campaign for peace in Vietnam, with correspondents including: [William] Marcus Worsley; Ra Jong-Yil on whether the Labour Party counted Syngman Rhee [former President of South Korea] as a democratic socialist; [Mark] James Cameron on his attempts to report from Vietnam; [Edward] Michael Gresford Jones, Bishop of St Albans on his motion in the House of Lords on the increasing menace of chemical and biological warfare; Alistair Macdonald, Treasurer of the...