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'Commonwealth Machinery': Drafting Committee, 1954-1955

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Contains:

  1. (fols. 1-7) list of Committee members (Chairman, Lord Ogmore; Secretaries, Marjorie Nicholson, and Hilda Selwyn-Clarke); correspondence about a discussion meeting held in the House of Lords on 8 Dec 1954, and a summary of Ogmore's speech on that occasion, 12 Nov-8 Dec 1954
  2. (fols. 8-13) manuscript notes by Creech Jones, with a covering letter to Marjorie Nicholson, containing criticisms of James Johnson's paper on non-viable territories, n.d.
  3. (fol. 14) letter from Marjorie Nicholson to Johnson criticising his paper, 13 Jan 1955
  4. (fol. 15) note by Marjorie Nicholson about committee meetings, 1 Feb 1955
  5. (fol. 16) letter from Marjorie Nicholson to Kenneth Robinson, Nuffield College, Oxford, asking him to write a pamphlet on French colonial policy, 1 Apr 1955.

Dates

  • Creation: 1954-1955

Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/169, folder 1

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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Weston Library
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