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Subjects include: a unified command in the Middle East; a European Defence Community; European federation; the Commonwealth and the Council of Europe; Britain's relations with Europe; the revolutionary role of private enterprise in Africa; Joseph Chamberlain; the Suez Canal; the liberation of Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union; relations with Europe and the Commonwealth.

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Subjects include: racial equality, relating to China, the Middle East and Africa; Joseph Chamberlain's memoirs; the Commonwealth in the post-war world; the future of the Suez Canal Zone [Egypt]; review of "Tito Speaks"; Europe's view of the United States; the future of Eastern Europe; Europe or the Commonwealth.

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Subjects include: the Anglo-Japanese Trade Agreement ("The Black Pact") and its effect on the Lancashire cotton industry; the Suez Canal [Egypt]; the Government's successes and aims; review of the 6th volume of Sir Winston Churchill's war memoirs, "Triumph and Tragedy"; the Conservative Party; National Service; MPs' pay.

Also includes extracts from JA's book "Sons of the Eagle", on his wartime experiences in Albania.

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With correspondence, 1980-3 (5): including letters from Sir Ian Jacob, 3 December 1980 (1), and Lord Carver, 4 December 1980 (1), about the Suez Crisis; and a letter from Sir Hermann Bondi, 28 January 1981, about a British nuclear deterrent. These letters are a mixture of photocopies and originals.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Harold Nicolson on LSA's book "Thoughts on the Constitution" (2); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (4); Caroline, Lady Oppenheimer; Lord Eustace Percy; Charles Ponsonby, thanking LSA for his speech to the Royal African Society; Sir Charles Rey on the recent South African elections and the success of the Nationalists; Paul Reynaud on dissolutions of Parliament (3); Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams; Sir [Thomas] Ellis Robins (2); Sir James Ross, First Division Pensioners’...

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Correspondence between Churchill and Eisenhower, President of the United States, on the Suez Crisis and Churchill's belief in the importance of the Anglo-American alliance in the Cold War. Also includes a covering letter from Winthrop Aldrich, American Ambassador to Britain.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: LSA's scheme for a new constitution in Cyprus; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; the Suez Group and Government arguments for withdrawing British troops from the Canal Zone [Egypt]; the hydrogen bomb debate; Julian Amery's biography of Joseph Chamberlain; Julian Amery's experiences at Strasbourg [France] as a delegate to the Consultative Assembly of Council of Europe; LSA's wish to stand as MP for Oxford; equipping mountain troops with skis. Also...

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Correspondence between Davis and the Admiralty, on subjects including: senior naval appointments; Davis's view of American aircraft carriers; Fleet exercises; concerns about Egypt and the Suez Canal Zone, Trieste, Jordan and the Maltese general election.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Michael Blundell [Minister of Agriculture, Kenya] on multi-racial government within Commonwealth countries; Kenneth de Courcy on his concerns about Soviet influence in the Middle East and rumours of Soviet problems developing a hydrogen bomb (2); [Arthur] Paul Dean; Michel Debre on his regrets over the Suez Crisis; Sir David Eccles [Minister of Education] enclosing the text of his speech to his constituents on Suez; John Biggs-Davison, Economic Digest Limited; Stanley...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Edward Beddington-Behrens; John Biggs-Davison on subjects including preserving the pre-eminent position on Britain and France in the management of the Suez Canal [Egypt] (2); Sir Robert Boothby on the results of the Suez Crisis; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the Exchequer [later 1st Lord Stockton] on a proposed private loan to the Mahdi in Sudan; Noel Marshall, President of the Cambridge Union Society; Somerset de Chair on subjects including hoping that...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir David Lindsay Keir, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, on JA's presentation of a portrait [? of Leo Amery] to the college; Edward Beddington-Behrens; R A Butler, Chairman of the Conservative Research Department, on setting up policy committees on agriculture, defence and nationalised industries; Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt on subjects including the Suez Crisis (2); Neil Elles, congratulating JA on his stand over the Suez Crisis; Sir Charles Ponsonby,...

Scope and Contents Reporting on subjects including the Prime Minister's [Anthony Eden] visit to Paris and negotiations with the French Government, [Gamal Abdel] Nasser [President of Egypt] and the fear that the Middle East will fall under the influence of [the Soviet Union] if Nasser succeeded in [nationalising the Suez Canal], the position of the United States and [John Foster] Dulles' [United States Secretary of State] "far from helpful" statements at a press conference, and upcoming discussions in the...

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Draft manuscript on JA's experience of the Middle East (particularly relating to Iran and the Suez Canal, Egypt), with extracts from Hansard giving JA's various speeches on the Middle East.

Scope and Contents Includes: briefing on Europe and the Inter-Governmental Conferences from [William] Tristan Garel-Jones, 1991; submission by James Molyneaux, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, to the Strand I talks on Northern Ireland, 1991; press material from the Information Committee for the Iraqi Opposition, 1991; speech by Ion Iliescu, President of Romania, to the last meeting of the Warsaw Treaty Political Consultative Committee, 1991; transcript of a witness seminar on the building of the Berlin...

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Notes on the Suez Crisis.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...

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Includes: press cuttings; article by Julian Amery on the risks of withdrawing troops from Suez [Egypt]; photograph of Julian Amery in uniform.

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Constituency correspondence from JA's seats of Preston, Lancashire, and Brighton Pavilion, Sussex.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Hugo Young; Allan Massie, enclosing his article, "The Best Foreign Secretary We Never Had"; Martin Gilbert (2); Robert Worcester, Chairman of MORI, Market and Opinion Research International Limited (2); Michael Foot (M R D Foot) on his entry on John Amery for the Dictionary of National Biography (2); Sir Frank Cooper, Chairman of the Institute of Contemporary British History; Richard Hough; Frank Bough; Andrew Roberts (2); Alistair Horne. Also...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: worries about Clementine's health; stays by Churchill at La Pausa with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], and Wendy Reves, Roquebrune [France]; the health of Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill and Diana Bailey]; meeting Aristotle Onassis; visits from [Marguerite] Daisy Fellowes, earlier Daisy de Broglie, R A Butler and [William] Somerset Maugham; work on ["A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"] with Churchill's literary assistants, [Richard] Denis Kelly and Alan...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Menzies [Prime Minister of Australia, 1939-1941 and 1949-1966] on subjects including: GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; the Suez Canal [Egypt]; the Commonwealth Conference, 1952; the European League for Economic Co-operation; strengthening the Sterling Area; devaluation of the pound; the result of the 1945 General Election. Other correspondents include: Ronald Russell, suggesting that Menzies might oppose further concessions on Imperial...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Sir Winston Churchill on subjects including: organisation of the War Cabinet; the value of air transport, and LSA's view that the Air Ministry did not give it enough importance; averting famine in India; monetary and commercial policy and the possibility of this causing a split in the Conservative Party; the lifelong friendship between Churchill and LSA; honours for LSA; policy on European Union and India after the war; Army reform; Palestine; the possibility of India...

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Subjects include: European economic policy; the Commonwealth economic conference; Commonwealth defence, particularly the Suez Canal; Poland; Central African Federation.

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Subjects include: the Middle East; defence; the economy; European unity; Commonwealth trade; Cyprus; the Suez Crisis.

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Miscellaneous speeches and notes from JA’s library desk, on subjects including: the Suez Crisis and its postmortem, including the Supplementary Estimates for increased spending on the army; National Service; reservists; JA's own career; general defence policy; cross-posting among different regiments; economic policy (in briefings to ministers from the Treasury).