Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Michael Heseltine, Secretary of State for the Environment; Elsie Elliott [earlier Elsie Tu, member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong] on housing issues in Hong Kong (2); 2nd Lord Trefgarne, Government Whip, House of Lords, on a proposed economic authority established by the United Nations; Patrick Mayhew, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Employment, on the labour dispute at the Nottingham Evening Post; Dixon Konkola on his personal situation and...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Phyllis Brockway (3); [Anthony] Tony Benn, sending good wishes for AFB's recovery after his fall, on the importance of the [World Disarmament Campaign, WDC] and looking forward to AFB's book on the Levellers ["Britain’s First Socialists"]; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway (3); George Cunningham; Ron Todd, National Organiser of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), apologising for missing a meeting to finalise the organisation of the World Disarmament Campaign; N G...

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...

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Sketch of Fenner Brockway writing his final memoir "100 Not Out" in Woodbrooke Library, Birmingham. Also includes a pamphlet in tribute to Brockway from the Friend, 1988.

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...

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Subjects include the inception and development of the campaign, fundraising attempts, recruitment drives and the formulation of the appeal for the signatures on the petition, which eventually reached a record 2.35 million. Because the Brockway papers came into the Archives in 1982, there are no papers relating to the activities of the reformulated Campaign WDC (UK) after the 1982 United Nations Session and the death of Lord Noel-Baker in October of that year.