Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee

Title

Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee

Shelfmark

CRD 2/34/5-6

Summary

Comprises:

1. CRD 2/34/5 - Briefs, 1946-1950. Includes:

Foreign Intelligence Report No. 1: Rumanian Elections, 15/11/1946 [Author: Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat]

Germany, n.d. [c. early 1947; Author: Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat

Incomplete, untitled brief concerning the Coal Industry and the National Coal Board, 16/12/1947 [Author: unknown]

'Notes for Mr Churchill', 22/06/1948 [Author: unknown]. Includes:- Corfu Channel Incident; Falkland Islands Dispute - Claims by the Argentine and Chile; British Honduras - Claims of Guatemala; The Gatow Air Crash; Rumania - Arrest of Mr Evans; Greece - the stabilising influence of British troops.

FAC(48)14 Western Germany - 1948, 22/06/1948 [Author: Major Hodgens]

Austria: Communications, n.d. [c. Jul 1948; Author: unknonw]

Conservative Central Office press release containing text of speech by Winston Churchill at the Conservative Party Conference, Llandudno, 09/10/1948

Memorandum for Speakers: Foreign Policy at Llandudno, 14/10/1948 [Author: unknown]

Russian Difficulties and Manoeuvres, 21/10/1948 [Author: Ursula Branston]

Socialist Parties in Eastern Europe, 27/10/1948 [Author: Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat]

Spain, 30/10/1948 [Author: unknown]

Socialism in Europe: Is it a Spent Force? n.d. [c. Oct 1948 [Author: unknown]

Devaluation, n.d. [c. Oct 1948; Author: RRF]

Security Council - British Vote for Czechoslovakia, n.d. [c. Oct 1948; Author: unknown]

CPSC(49)4 Indonesia, 12/01/1949 [Author: unknown]

The Council of Europe, 04/02/1949 [Author: unknown]

FAC(49)1 North Atlantic Pact, 10/05/1949 [Author: Ursula Branston]

FAC(49)3 Brief for Foreign Affairs Debate, Thursday 21st July 1949, 20/07/1949 [Author: unknown]: 1. Germany - Council of Foreign Ministers; 2. Germany - Dismantling; 3. Germany - Nationalism; 4. East/West Trade; 5. The Churches in Eastern Europe; 6. Future of the Italian Colonies

Dismantling for Reparations and of Prohibited and Limited Industries, 12/11/1949 [Author: unknown]

Greece and Yugoslavia: Interplay of Events, n.d. [c. Nov 1949; Author: Ursula Branston]

Balkan Background: Greece & Yugoslavia. Foreign Affairs Survey No. 16, n.d. [c. Nov 1949; Author: Ursula Branston]

Draft article entitled 'The Outlook for Germany: A Conservative View' requested by the German newspaper Die Welt, 13/02/1950 [Author: Ursula Branston]

Hydrogen and Atomic Bomb, n.d. [c. 20/02/1950; Author: unknown]

HAC(50)1 Diplomatic Privileges (Extension) Bill, 13/03/1950 [Author: unknown]

HAC(50)2 Further Reflections on the Diplomatic Privileges (Extension) Bill, 15/03/1950 [Author: unknown]

FAC(50)1 General Brief for Foreign Affairs Debate, Tuesday, 28th March, 1950, 24/03/1950 [Author: Ursula Branston]: 1. Atomic Energy and Hydrogen Bomb - Political Repercussions; 2. Franco-German Relations - The Saar Controversy; 3. Franco-German Union; 4. Germany and Eastern Europe; 5. Unification of Germany; 6. Eastern Europe - Diplomatic Tension; 7. The Colombo Conference and the Spender Plan; 8. China - Recognition - Sino-Soviet Treaty; 9. Indo-China; 10. Malaya

Germany and the Council of Europe, n.d. [c.May 1950? Author: Ursula Branston]

FAC(50)3 The Schuman Proposals: their Political Inspiration and Implications, 13/06/1950 [Author: Ursula Branston]

PCC(50)9 The Schuman Plan, 19/06/1950 [Author: unknown]

PFC(50)15 Explanatory Notes on the European Payments Union, 17/07/1950 [Authors: Diana Spearman/John B Wood]

HAC(50)6 Universal Postal Union, 18/07/1950 [Author: R.R. Feilden]

A European Army, 11/09/1950 [Author: Ursula Branston]

FAC(50)5 Steel Nationalisation and the Schuman Plan, 18/09/1950 [Ursula Branston]

Second Session of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe: Notes by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, 09/11/1950

FAC(50)7 General Brief for Foreign Affairs Debate, 29th-30th November, 1950, 27/11/1950 [Author: Ursula Branston]: 1. Negotiations with Russia?; 2. Socialist Criticism of the Foreign Secretary; 3. The Western German Attitude; 4. The Far East; 5. Egypt and the Middle East

FAC(50)8 Debate on the International Situation - Prime Minister's Statement, 13/12/1950 [Author: Ursula Branston]: 1. Washington Communique; 2. Korea - Political Prospects; 3. The Doctrine of "Volunteers"; 4. Formosa and a Japanese Peace Treaty; 5. Indo-China; 6. Malaya; 7. Atlantic and European Defence; 8. Communist Propaganda

2. CRD 2/34/6 - Briefs, 1951-1954. Includes:

FAC(51)2 Relations with Egypt, 19/03/1951 [Author: Ursula Branston]

FAC(51)3 Pacific Pact, 20/04/1951 [Author: Ursula Branston]

Imperial Affairs Committee brief: Note by Mr L.D. Gammans on the Pacific Security Pact, 23/04/1951

The Schuman Plan: notes on recent developments and British attitude, May 1951 [Author: Ursula Branston]

A Visit to the Middle East, May 1951, by David Gamans MP, 28/05/1951

Defence Aspects of Middle East and Russian Oil, 01/06/1951 [Author: unknown]

Note by Mr John Foster KC on the British Government's submission to the International Court of Justice on the dispute with the Iranian Government, 06/06/1951 [Author: unknown]

The Situation in Persia, 21/06/1951 [Author: unknown]

FAC(51)4 The Draft Japanese Peace Treaty, 23/07/1951 [Author: unknown]

FAC(51)5 Debate on the Middle East, 30th July 1951, 27/07/1951 [Author: Ursula Branston]: 1. Persia; 2. Egypt

Disarmament Proposals. Additional Notes, n.d. [c. Jan 1952; Author: unknown]

Note on the Japanese Peace Treaty, 23/11/1951 [Author: John Biggs-Davison]

'The First Six Months': Notes by the Conservative Research Department, 23/04/1952: Financial Solvency; Employment; Transport; Food Supplies; Social Services; Housing; Education; Civil Defence; Local Government; Town and Country Planning; Defence; Foreign Affairs

FAC(52)5 Brief for Debate on the European Situation, 14th May 1952, 12/05/1952 [Author: Ursula Branston]

Background Notes for Debate on Bombing of Power Plants on the Yalu River, 25/06/1952 [Author: Ursula Branston]

FAC(52)8 Background Notes for Debate on Korea and the Far East, 1st July 1952, 30/06/1952 [Author: Ursula Branston]

FAC(52)9 Brief for Debate on Ratification of the Contractual Agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany, 23/07/1952 [Author: Ursula Branston]

Brief for Debate on Ratification of the Contractual Agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany, 29/07/1952 [Author: Ursula Branston]

Statement by Brigadier JG Smyth VC, MC, MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions on the Distribution of Japanese Assets in the United Kingdom among Far Eastern Prisoners of War, 07/10/1952

Minutes of meeting of the Army Sub-Committee of the Conservative Parliamentary Defence Committee, 22/10/1952

Congress of the Peoples for Peace, 24/11/1952 [Author: Ursula Branston]

Memorandum from Ursula Branston, Conservative Research Department, to Mr Fraser: 'Note for Mr CI Orr-Ewing. Mr Churchill's visit to the USA' [Incomplete], 31/12/1952

Alfred Krupp, n.d. [Author: unknown]

Memorandum on Air Transport Policy by the Council of the Air League of the British Empire, Brigadier Faviell, 27/02/1953

Foreign Affairs [Annotated 'For PM'. (Glasgow 8 April '53)]

Consultative Assembly (Fifth Session, Third Part), September 1953, 20/10/1953 [Author: John Biggs-Davison]

FAC(53)5 The Council of Europe, 20/10/1953 [Author: John Biggs-Davison]

FAC(53)6 Notes for the Debate on the European Situation, 28th October 1953, 27/10/1953 [Author: John Biggs-Davison]: Trieste; Great Britain and the EDC

FAC(53)7 Brief for Foreign Affairs Debate, 17th December 1953 [Author: Ursula Branston]: 1. Bermuda, NATO and EDC; 2. An International Bank for Atomic Energy

PDC(54)1 Brief for House of Lords Conservative Committee for Defence: Service Officers' Conditions, 22/01/1954 [Author: John Faviell]

FAC(54)1 Brief for Foreign Affairs Debate 24-25 February 1954 [Author: Ursula Branston]: 1. General Results of the Conference; 2. Labour views of German Rearmament; 3. East and West Germany; 4. Korea and Indo-China

Date

1946-1954

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (2 folders)