Chairman's Office correspondence with, and concerning, the Monday Club | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Chairman's Office correspondence with, and concerning, the Monday Club

Shelfmark

CCO 20/43/4

Summary

Subjects include:-

The expulsion of 2 members of the Nottingham & East Midlands Conservative Monday Club for being members of the extreme group National Democratic Party

Complaints to Central Office from "loyal" Monday Club members at a perceived plot to replace Heath with Enoch Powell, and unauthorised fund-raising appeals, 1969

Correspondence concerning Monday Club complaints that Arnold Smith, Commonwealth Secretary General and a principal architect of sanctions against Rhodesia, should be invited to speak at the Conference of the Conservative Commonwealth Council

Monday Club response to The Times' accusation that the Monday Club was conspiring to subvert the constituency associations, Nov 1968

Various copies of Powell speeches

Monday Club expressions of support for Powell following his dismissal from the Shadow Cabinet, Apr 1968, and resignation in consequence of this of the Rt Hon Viscount Boyd as Joint Patron

Letters of complaint to the Daily Telegraph from Paul Williams concerning the mis-representation of Monday Club aims and attitudes, 1967

Correspondence regarding discrimination against the Monday Club within the Conservative Commonwealth Council, Oct 1967