Correspondence and papers: files 507-512, 1937-1939

File

MS. 9661/15

Comprises:

File 507 - correspondence and articles relating to Cripps' expulsion and subsequent (1939) readmission petition to the Labour Party, includes a copy of the Jul 1939 edition of Labour Monthly 'After Southport' by Harry Pollitt, 1938-1939
File 508 - correspondence relating to the idea of setting up a popular front in Britain, includes a list of Labour candidates for constituencies, 1939
File 509 - letters to Cripps regarding his reply to the Labour Party's terms for his (and Bevan and Strauss's) re-admission to the party, 1939
File 510 - correspondence relating public sympathy over the ratification of Cripps' expulsion from the Labour Party, 1937-1939
File 511 - correspondence and papers relating to the petition campaign of 1939, an attempt to create a popular front, 1939
File 512 - 'Popular Front' - letter and memorandum from Cripps to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, Jan 1939