Dino comments on Zaki's study of Turkey and will provide more up-to-date information. He asks that Zaki get in touch with him before he sends out the Turkish invitations to the planned Middle East conference.

Reid comments on articles by BR on Vietnam and world poverty that Schoenman has sent him for The Golden Horn.

Horn wants a separate article on the decline of the left in American politics.

Schoenman sends "The Myth of American Freedom" and his and Zaki's article on the Congo.

Richard Stark, says Schoenman, is "one of the inner circle of the Foundation".

Baykurt invites BR to a conference on education in Turkey and developing countries and would pay his way.

BR could not attend the conference Baykurt has invited him to, but could send a representative with a message from himself.

Draft telegram on the letterhead of the Fairview Hotel, Nairobi.

Schoenman requests that Aroma arrange a meeting with Obote, presumably after Schoenman arrives on "Sunday evening".

BR asks Prime Minister Obote, who is in attendance at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, to become a sponsor of the BRPF.

Schoenman calls Obote's attention to enclosed articles on the nature of Western aggression in the Congo and on the war of atrocity in Vietnam.

BR writes on the dangers of American policy in the Congo and Vietnam and asks Obote to consider proposals entrusted to his representative, Ralph Schoenman.

Schoenman recommends that Arain meet with Leonard Boudin, who is the legal representative in the U.S. of Cuba, Kenya, the People's Progressive Party of British Guinea and Algeria.

Shafiq will be pleased to meet with Leonard Boudin.

Schoenman has had talks with Nkrumah and Kaunda, and Denis from Phombeah.

Schoenman asks for the "video-sound footage of the assassination of Kennedy and aftermath taken on 22 November 1963" from the Laboratories of Uganda Television, gratis.

The document is titled "Confidential Memorandum on Overall Strategy for the Attention of Dr. Milton Obote". It concerns the Congo.

A second TD(CAR) is in the file, document .181843.

The document is titled "Confidential Memorandum on the Crisis in Vietnam for the Attention of Dr. Milton Obote". It concerns the targeting of China in the Vietnam war.

A second TD(CAR) is in the file, document .181845.

On the Suez crisis.

A message on the Suez Crisis for a meeting at Penrhyndeudraeth on 3 November 1956.

Brooks reports on the success of the meeting on the Suez crisis in Penrhyndeudraeth. BR's message has been sent to several newspapers, all named.

From the prisoners "Communists, Democrats and Trade Unionists" detained in the western desert "Wadu al Gaded" prison and forwarded by Kenneth Cottman (see 320.181850).

BR thanks Cottman for the document by the Egyptian political prisoners, in particular regarding Dr. Abdel Azim Adis.

BR is awaiting a reply from Nasser.

Presumably this ribbon copy of the letter was not sent.

BR requests that Haykal find time to discuss denuclearization of the Middle East with Christopher Farley and Nicholas Johnson.

Also in the file is a TL(CAR) of the letter, document .181852.

Riffat is Secretary of the Arab Socialist League, Cairo.

BR asks Riffat to receive his representatives, Christopher Farley and Nicholas Johnson.

The whole text: "This is to affirm that Mr. Nicholas B. Johnson and Mr. Christopher D. Farley are empowered to represent me and to present views and proposals on my behalf."

BR seeks Heikal's response to last January's proposals discussed with Heikal by Khalid Zaki.

A call to parliament for Oct. 27, communicated by Coldstream who was the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor.

The year is inferred from the year of Elizabeth's reign.

A joint telegram. The beginning of a third name appears below the Russells' names.

On the death of Isaac Deutscher.

De Zulueta tells BR that the views in his telegram to the Prime Minister have been noted.

BR resigns from the National Committee of 100. The text is retyped from Peace News, 11 Jan. 1963.

The Home Office's private secretary acknowledges BR's letter of Oct. 2, 1963.

The letter is unsigned and therefore is assumed to be from Ralph Schoenman.

The letter is undated but is at least 1964 from the reference to Roy Jenkins, who might be able to do something about the threat to civil liberties that the letter concerns.

The letter is unsigned and therefore is assumed to be from Ralph Schoenman.

The letter is undated but is dated at least 1964 from the reference to Roy Jenkins. He might be able to do something about the threat to civil liberties that the letter concerns.

The text is the same as 320.181870.

On savagery, with a mention of the Profumo scandal, and with fear being the background to the acceptance of cruelty.

On extending permission for Khalid Ah'med Zaki to stay in Britain.

Wilson suggests that Schoenman and Zaki meet with Eric Fletcher, M.P., who is Labour's Front Bench Home Affairs spokesman. Wilson says he has gone into the question himself.

Attlee thanks BR for his kind note.

The private secretary to the Postmaster General writes in response to BR's complaint about the handling of June Bergman's call from the U.S.

As Hugh Foot will be taking up his post as Minister in New York, he won't have time to meet with BR, although he would much like to.

BR wishes Foot every success in New York.

BR thanks the private secretary for his assistance and apologises for not having replied to his letter earlier.

BR writes about visas for Polevoi, Matkovsky and Shnjakine. "Dictated over the telephone by Lord Russell and signed in his absence by his secretary".

Soskice allowed visas for Polevoi and Shnyakin but not Matkovsky.

BR is "gravely disturbed" that Soskice will not permit Matkovsky to come to the U.K. to meet him.

BR protests Soskice's decision not to grant Matkovsky a visa to meet with BR in the U.K.

BR objects to the account of early events in the Vietnam war in the Under Secretary's reply to British Vietnam Committee.

Soskice has reviewed his decision and still can't grant a visa to Matkovsky.

Wilson agrees with Soskice's decision re Matkovsky's visa.

Schoenman supplies the missing enclosure to BR's letter of Jan. 9 and adds a copy of the Nov. 23, 1964 letter from the Foreign Office to the British Vietnam Committee (both not present).

Schoenman states his detailed objections to the contents of cable's letter of Feb. 5 to BR on Vietnam.

BR objects to the attack on North Vietnam and the British government's support of the U.S.

Wilson defends the American attack on North Vietnam.

Cable states that it would be incorrect to draw wider inferences from his letter of Feb. 5 to BR.

BR tells Wilson that he is in communication with Ho Chi Minh and that Wilson has a chance to play an historic role in resolving the crisis.

A rejected draft is found at record 71272.

Nicholas tells Labour recipients of a conference on NATO and the problems of peace on Saturday, March 8.

The year is provided by the perpetual calendar.

BR is calling an international conference for London at the end of May on problems of world peace.

The conference did not take place.

BR asks Foot's advice concerning a matter he has raised with the Postmaster General.

Foot comments on BR's speech at London School of Economics on 15 Feb. 1965. "I think some of your criticisms are misinterpretations of what the government has said or is doing" re Vietnam.

Shinwell replies to BR's letter of March 15 on the Labour government's Vietnam policy.

In Farley's hand at the top: "Answered by B.R."

On popular opposition to the war in Vietnam and the need for the British government to support that opposition.

The dictated form of this reply cannot be located, although it exists for BR's opening letter to Shinwell of March 15.

In Edith Russell's hand at the top: "For your information and files".

On the willingness of the North Vietnamese to attend a conference based on the Geneva agreements of 1954.

Wilson responds to BR's news of North Vietnam's willingness to confer by disagreeing with BR's summary of a recent speech by Pham Van Dong and providing the text. He ends by saying: "If you have any influence with the North Vietnamese...."

Vale acknowledges BR's letter of July 21.

Two photocopies of the letter follow, documents .181906, .181907.

The letter concerns visas for Nguyen Van Hieu, Dinh Ba Thi, and Pham Van Chuong.

BR objects to a ban on a benefit performance by the Bolshoi Ballet for the BRPF.

Unsent. This is the penultimate of three drafts in response to Nyerere's withdrawal of his sponsorship of the BRPF. It contains an indirect criticism about personal contact and courtesy.

The TL(CAR) of the letter, document .181792, has the sentence struck out.

"Not sent". This is the first of three drafts in response to Nyerere's withdrawal of his sponsorship of the BRPF. It contains an indirect criticism about personal contact and courtesy and much else about attitude and a reference to "considerations [that] overshadow what we had assumed about your person and your office."

A typed interview with BR.

Schoenman requests literature as before and the Lane lecture to be mailed to the Uganda Club; plus £10.

Written on the same sheet as the telegram recorded at record 71208.

"Unsent". This version was superseded by that at record 71256. On Vietnam. The second sheet of the letter is document .181898, record 71271.

The press statement is assumed to be from BR. It concerns the bombing of dams in North Vietnam.

BR asks Wilson if he could receive a delegation to protest U.S. bombing of North Vietnamese dams.

BR seeks a reversal of the ban on the planned benefit performance by the Bolshoi Ballet for the BRPF.

On a delegation to Harold Wilson to protest the U.S. bombing of North Vietnamese dams.

The file contains 3 TD(CAR) copies of the document, .181915- .181916, .181918-.181919.

Wright conveys Wilson's regrets that he is unable to receive BR's delegation about the situation in North Vietnam.

Also in the file are 2 more TLS(X) copies, documents .181920-.181921.

Walston defends the decision to ban the Bolshoi Ballet from benefiting the BRPF.

On Wilson's refusal to receive a delegation over the bombing of North Vietnam.

Also in file are 2 TD(CAR), documents .181924 and .181927, and 1 TD(CAR,X), .181926.

Lee defends the ban on the Bolshoi Ballet's benefit performance for the BRPF.

BR delivered the speech for the Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

The copy is marked "file copy".

This text was broadcast in a BBC programme on Einstein.

A note at the top reads: "Sent to Theo. Schoenman. Tape rec." (Theodore Schoenman had connections with Pacifica Radio.)

On the seamen's strike.

There is a revision in Ralph Schoenman's hand.

Also in file: 3 TD(CAR), documents .181938-.181940.

BR writes to request a work permit for Ralph Rosenbaum to employ his design skills for a journal shortly to be published by the BRPF.

Hill, writing on the letterhead of the Teachers' Committee for Nuclear Disarmament, attaches a draft syllabus of moral education.

BR is assumed to be the recipient, but his name is not present.

Fawcett tells BR that he has forwarded his request for a work permit for Ralph Rosenbaum to the Ministry of Labour.

Smith encloses a clipping of the published interview, saying it took place on Sept. 26, 1966 and had to be "drastically cut" from the full, tape-recorded transcription.

BR requests visas for Vietnamese witnesses at sessions of the International War Crimes Tribunal to be held in London.

With the original with compliments slip is a photocopy, .181949, and an original envelope from the Prime Minister. It is not know what was conveyed in the envelope.

Schoenman describes at length a break-in at 3 & 4 Shavers Place and subsequent illegal behaviour by the London police.

He mentions consulting his lawyer, Jack Black.

BR encloses (at document .181950) Ralph Schoenman's statement about the break-in at 3 & 4 Shavers Place. "I believe that a top level inquiry into this matter is mandatory."

An acknowledgement slip for BR's letter of Dec. 20, 1966.

Jenkins has concluded it would not be in the national interest to grant visas to the Vietnamese BR wishes to bring to the Tribunal sessions in London.

Jenkins has referred Schoenman's allegations of irregular police conduct to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

The letter is written on a photocopy of a letter from Coates to the Morning Star concerning a review of Industrial Democracy in Great Britain that said the book was anti-communist.

BR hopes to hear soon about the break-in event reported by Ralph Schoenman as conveyed by BR on Dec. 30, 1966.

On the verso of this photocopy are various notes by someone about a trip to Paris.

"Not sent".

BR requests a reversal of Home Secretary Jenkins' decision not to issue visas to certain Vietnamese so that they could attend London sessions of the Tribunal.

Robinson requests visas for members of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam to attend teach-ins in Britain.