Correspondence, papers and press cuttings

Title

Correspondence, papers and press cuttings

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 90

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-3: "The Truth about Abyssinia by an eye witness: an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury" by Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Rocke, with a statement by the Archbishop: "We give our whole-hearted support to the action which the League is now taking", 1935.

File 2, item 1: Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) Information Department Paper No. 16: "Abyssinia and Italy", 1935.

File 3, fols. 1-11: Correspondence with Lord Noel Buxton, Dorothy Buxton and Charles Roden Buxton about the possibility of Italy holding a Mandate for administering Ethiopia and about questions raised in the House of Commons about food supplies to Ethiopia and indigenous land rights in Kenya, 1936-1937.

File 4, fols. 1-13: Correspondence with Hazel Napier, general secretary of the Friends of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) League of Service about a deputation to the Foreign Office, a letter to The Times and other means of demonstrating support for the Emperor, 1936.

File 5, fols. 1-4: "A humble petition to His Majesty's Government concerning the national dispute between Italy and Abyssinia and the state of war existing in East Africa" issued by the New Commonwealth, with correspondence about Lugard's signing of it, 1936.

File 6, fols. 1-34: Correspondence about Lugard's letter to The Times on the proposed international recognition of Italy in Ethiopia, including some with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Cosmo Lang), 1938.

File 7, fols. 1-34 and item 1: Correspondence about the Emperor's position in England, his return to Ethiopia and about finding a post for Frank de Halpert in his service there, 1938-1942.

File 8, fols. 1-24: Correspondence and memoranda by Lugard concerning post-war policies for administering Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, Libya, Cyrenaica and Abyssinia, possibly by means of a Mandate, 1941.

File 9, fols. 1-6 and item 1: Press cuttings about the return of the Emperor to Ethiopia, Sir Philip Mitchell's post as political adviser to Wavell and Anthony Eden's policy statement on the future of Ethiopia, 1941.

File 10, fols. 1-21: Newspaper cuttings on refugees in Ethiopia and Italian reprisals, articles by Lugard in West Africa and by Margery Perham in The Times on the problems of reconstruction and rehabilitation, with a copy of the London Gazette Supplement, 25 Oct 1935, pronouncing economic sanctions against Italy, 1936-1942.

Date

1935-1942

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box