'Views on International Machinery during the last War and after', 1942-1950

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Comprises:

(fols. 1-2) Life, article on 'The British Colonial Empire' by Jan Christiaan Smuts, 28 Dec 1942
(fol. 3) The Listener, 'From Power to Service', Margery Perham's views on Britain's responsibilities towards her Colonial Empire, 22 Apr 1943
(fols. 4-11) African Affairs, 'The Future of the Mandates: a Symposium'; views of Lord Perth, Lord Harlech, Lord Lugard, Creech Jones, Freda White, Sir Bernard Bourdillon, Leonard Woolf, Rita Hinden, F.S. Joelson, Sir Drummond Shiels, and Margery Perham, Oct 1944
(fols. 12-22) Fortune, article on 'Proposed regional groupings in Africa and the Middle East, and of South East Asia and the Far East', Oct 1944
(fol. 23) The Saturday Evening Post, article on 'Preview of Peacemaking' and the part that the British Empire still had to play in world affairs, [Dec 1944]
(fols. 24-27) copy of a letter from Raymond Leslie Buell to Dr Walter W. Van Kirk, Secretary to the Federal Council of Churches, New York, headed 'One View of Dumbarton Oaks', 26 Dec 1944
(fols. 28-31) The American Mercury, article on 'America's Plan for the Colonial World' by 'Geneva', Feb 1945
(fols. 32-33) copy of a letter from Margery Perham to Leonard Woolf about a possible amnesty for collaborators in Malaya (Malaysia) and Burma (Myanmar), and a copy of the memorandum of the Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions in which this suggestion was made, 26 Apr 1945
(fols. 34-45) Manchester Guardian, cuttings of letters to the Editor about Britain's refusal to give details of colonial administration to the United Nations, with notes by Creech Jones headed 'U.N.O. International Issues', n.d.
(fol. 46) The Times, article on 'Colonies in Trust: development of the new U.N. system', 18 Apr 1947
(fol. 47) note on the Mandatory System and the suspension of the Commission by the war, n.d.
(item 1) European Co-operation; memorandum submitted item to the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation relating to economic affairs in the period 1950-1952, Cmd. 7862, Jan 1950.