Reports and memoranda, 1936-1943

folder

Held at the Weston Library

Contains:

(item 1) Labour Party International Department Memorandum No. 467 on the Italo-Abyssinian Crisis, prepared by the Advisory Committee on International Questions, pp. 3, May 1936
(fol. 1) typed notes from the Chatham House Monograph 'The Italian Colonial Empire', Oct 1940, n.d.
(fols. 2-3) draft letter [from the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society] to Anthony Eden, S/S Foreign Affairs, concerning slavery in Ethiopia, 1941
(fols. 4-7) memorandum prepared by C.W.W. Greenidge from information given to him by a British Army Officer, concerning the agreement concluded between Great Britain and the Emperor of Ethiopia on 31 Jan 1942, and conditions in the country, especially in relation to slavery, May 1942
(items 2-6) Labour Party International Department Memorandum No. 248, on Abyssinia (Ethiopia), prepared by Greenidge for the Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions, pp. 11; with comments by Margery Perham, pp. 3, amendments, p. l, and the revised memorandum, two copies, pp. 4, Nov 1942-Jun 1943.

Dates

1 folder

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/128, folder 1

For other papers concerning Ethiopia, see also:

'The Fate of Italy's Colonies', FCB pamphlet by an observer in Eritrea, J.C. Gray and Leo Silberman, 1948; and other related publications in MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/32, folder 2
'The British in Eritrea' - article by Rita Hinden, Nov 1946, in MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/43, folder 1, fols. 234-251
correspondence between Rita Hinden and Richard K.P. Pankhurst about the future of Ethiopia, Aug-Nov 1947, in MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/44, folder 2, fols. 35-60.

See also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/180, folder 3, for papers concerning Eritrea.