Disarmament Campaign (II): Correspondence and papers

Title

Disarmament Campaign (II): Correspondence and papers

Shelfmark

CCO 20/37/3

Summary

Correspondents include:-

Blaker, Peter, Minister of State for the Armed Forces

Cowell, Tim, Assistant Director (Youth), Conservative Central Office

Craine, Peter, Ministry of Defence

Garner, Sir Anthony, Director of Organisation and Community Affairs, Conservative Central Office

Howarth, Alan, Director, Conservative Research Department

Hurd, Douglas, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Johnson, David, Chairman, Wessex Area Young Conservatives, and National Secretary, Youth for Multilateral Disarmament

Lamport, Stephen MJ, Private Secretary to Douglas Hurd, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Oxenbury, Shirley, Chairman's Office, Conservative Central Office

Parkinson, Cecil, Conservative Party Chairman

Shipley, Peter, Conservative Research Department

Thatcher, Margaret, Prime Minister

Subjects include:-

Design and circulation of anti-CND publicity material, in conjunction with the British Atlantic Committee

Guidance for Conservative MPs on the Government's position on disarmament and the nuclear deterrent

Measures taken to counter the CND campaign

Reports on CND demonstrations

Includes:-

Notes of meetings concerning CND:-

Minutes of meeting chaired by Party Chairman Lord Thorneycroft, 16/06/1981

Minutes of meeting chaired by Party Chairman Lord Thorneycroft, 28/06/1981

Minutes of meeting chaired by Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson, 27/10/1981

Notes of the first meeting of the anti-CND coordinating group, chaired by Peter Blaker MP on 05/11/1981, by Peter Shipley, 06/11/1981

Anti-CND leaflets:-

Conservative Central Office:-

'Do you want peace? On what terms?...', ND [c.1981]

Youth for Multilateral Disarmament:-

The Soviet Union Needs You! Support unilateral disarmament!

Peace at What Price? Never Again

Ministry of Defence:-

A Nuclear Free Europe? Why it wouldn't work

Nuclear Weapons and Preventing War

Cruise Missiles. The important questions

Cruise Missiles. Some important questions and answers

Further anti-CND leaflets:-

Conservative Research Department briefing pack, 'Deterrence and Disarmament', May 1981

Note concerning the Party's attitude to the World Disarmament Campaign, ND [c.1981]

Paper, 'The Debate on Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament - Notes for Guidance by Mr Peter Blaker MP, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, ND [c.1981; 7pp]

Guidance notes for Conservative MPs invited to address CND meetings concerning disarmament, 'Meetings about the Nuclear Deterrent and Disarmament', Sep 1981 [6pp]

Conservative Central Office press release containing extracts from speeches by Peter Blaker MP concerning CND, 08/09/1981

Lists of Conservative Parliamentary Candidates and local activists prepared to act as anti-CND speakers, ND [1981]

Guidance notes for Conservative MPs, 'The Nuclear Deterrent and Disarmament', by Peter Blaker MP, Nov 1981 [6pp]

Ministry of Defence literature pack, The United Kingdom Trident Programme, with introduction by John Nott, Secretary of State for Defence, Mar 1982

Date

Jun-Dec 1981; Mar 1982

Language

English

Physical extent

1 file