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(Sir) Arthur Bryant: correspondence and related papers, 12 Feb 1946-21 Feb 1949

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Also, articles and memoranda by him about Sarawak. He took up the cause of his father-in-law, Bertram Brooke, as well as that of Anthony Brooke on the grounds that he had been 'deprived of the rights of citizenship ... of access to one of His Majesty's dominions and of free resort to the Courts of Law'. He approached a number of Members of Parliament (see list of these, fol. 233) and of the press, and in particular Malcolm MacDonald, Governor-General of Malaya (Malaysia) (see also MSS. Pac. s. 83/11, Vol. 39, folder 7). Correspondents, listed in order of appearance in the file, include the following:
  1. H.V. Hodson, Editor, Sunday Times
  2. W.C. Crocker
  3. Bertram Brooke
  4. A.S. Haynes, Malayan Civil Service (retired)
  5. Mrs D. Mackay
  6. Michael Scott
  7. Sir Cyril Radcliffe, K.C.
  8. Anthony Brooke
  9. Rev. T.S. Alexander
  10. W.J.H. Joy
  11. Malcolm MacDonald (fols. 42-92)
  12. general Sir Bernard Paget
  13. Major-General O'Donnell, War Office
  14. Bishop Rupert Mounsey
  15. Viscount Kemsley
  16. A. Lascelles
  17. Lord Rothermere
  18. R.M. Barrington-Ward
  19. D.C. White, Acting Under-Secretary, Kuching
  20. J.P. Wingfield
  21. William Teeling, MP
  22. T.I.K. Lloyd, Colonial Office
  23. J.J. Lawson, Privy Council (PC), MP
  24. P.J.L. Thomas, MP
  25. W.J. Brown, MP
  26. Oliver Stanley, MP
  27. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, MP
  28. T.C. Skeffington-Lodge, MP
  29. Lord Jowitt, Lord Chancellor
  30. Sir Ernest Graham-Little, MP
  31. L.S. Amery, MP
  32. Sir Arthur Salter, MP
  33. Anthony Eden, MP
  34. Lord Woolton, MP
  35. R.A. Butler, MP
  36. Brendan Bracken, MP
  37. Sir Alan Herbert, MP
  38. R.V. Grimston, MP
  39. A.T. Lennox-Boyd, MP
  40. Captain Hugh Delargy, MP
  41. D.R. Rees-Williams, MP
  42. John Maude, MP
  43. Ivor Brown, The Observer
  44. Collin Brooks, Truth
  45. The Editor, Daily Telegraph
  46. Arthur H. Noble
  47. Dr K.W.M. Pickthorn, MP

Related papers include the following:
  1. (fols. 6-8) record of remarks made at a Colonial Office Conference by A.S. Haynes about the Malayan Union, and copy of a letter from Sir Badlishah, Sultan of Kedah, 26 Feb 1946
  2. (fols. 149-152) memorandum by Bertram Brooke to the Colonial Secretary, n.d.
  3. (fols. 200-214) cyclostyled copies of correspondence between Bryant, W.J. Brown, MP, and A. Creech Jones, S/S Col., with Colonial Office Comments, about the ban on Anthony Brooke's entry into Sarawak, 19 Jan-6 Feb 1948
  4. (fols. 309-317) article by Arthur Bryant: 'Sarawak - the story of a free people', n.d.
  5. (fols. 318-324) two memoranda on the succession by Arthur Bryant, n.d.
  6. (fols. 325-335) article by Arthur Bryant: 'Britain and Sarawak', n.d.
  7. (fols. 336-339) memorandum on the Cession by Arthur Bryant, n.d.
  8. (fols. 340-344) article by Arthur Bryant: 'Our Note Book': Illustrated London News (two copies and galley proof), 27 Apr 1946
  9. (fol. 345) article by Arthur Bryant: 'They always forget that Britain won their wars': Titbits, reprinted from the Illustrated London News, 24 Jan 1947.

Dates

  • Creation: 12 Feb 1946-21 Feb 1949

Extent

345 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Pac. s. 83/11, Vol. 39, folder 4

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