BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
69903

Radhakrishnan is Vice-President of India.

69904

Usborne suggests that BR explain his ideas to the group.

69905

The enclosed memorandum on "Freedom of the Seas" is by the Parliamentary Group for World Government; TD(MIM), 2 sheets.

69906

Boyd Orr encloses a letter (not present) to V.K. Krishna Menon.

69907

BR has forwarded Boyd Orr's letter to Krishna Menon.

Typed on the verso of the letter of record 69906.

69908

BR encloses Boyd-Orr's letter (not present; see record 69906) and requests a meeting.

Typed on the verso of the letter at record 69906.

69909

BR reports on two meetings now scheduled: one with Krishna Menon on May 7, and one with Nehru on May 8.

Typed on the verso of the letter at record 69906.

69910

Usborne invites BR to discuss with the group "the proposition which you advocated in your broadcast", i.e. in "Man's Peril".

69911

BR agrees to address the group on Feb 9.

Typed on the verso of the letter at record 69910.

69912

Armstrong is Clerk to the Parliamentary Group for World Government.

The enclosure is an announcement of BR's talk to the group on Feb. 9 in the parliament buildings.

69913

Armstrong encloses typed and mimeographed versions of the minutes of BR's talk and the ensuing discussion, as well as 2 newspaper reports of it on Feb. 10.

69914

McAllister, Honorary Director of the P.A.W.G., thanks BR for agreeing to speak at Central Hall on March 31.

69915

BR telephoned the text to Patrick Armstrong (see record 69916). Also in file: another copy, TD(CAR).

69916

The clipping refers to the memo by BR (see record 69915); it is from the Manchester Guardian, 18 Feb. 1955. See record 70000 and record 70001 for the other enclosures.

69917

Usborne announces a talk by Alexander Haddow on "Hydrogen-Bomb 'Fall-Out' and the Prospects of Control" on March 8.

69918

McAllister encloses a synopsis for The Bomb, to which BR has agreed to contribute.

69919
69920

Kibblewhite is Secretary of the World Government Society of the London School of Economics. She invites BR to speak to students.

69921

Armstrong encloses letters from Mrs. Pandit (see record 69922) and Usborne (record 69924), an extract from the BBC News (record 69923), Walter Elliot's speech in the House of Commons (record 69927), and a memo to be discussed with Anthony Nutting (record 69926) by the P.G.W.P.'s deputation to the Foreign Office on March 29.

69922

Mrs. Pandit is High Commissioner for India and Nehru's sister.

69923

On Nehru's telling Parliament in Delhi about India's two atomic reactors and BR's suggestion that India should investigate the probable effects of atomic war.

69924
69925

Mrs. Pandit explains Nehru's approach to an investigation of the probable effects of atomic war.

69926
69927
69928

BR desires information on rival scientific congresses.

69929

Catherine McAllister encloses tickets for the Central Hall meeting.

69930

Edith Russell asks Popkin how much she owes in income tax, as she can now pay it.

69931

Edith Russell thanks Mrs. McAllister for the Central Hall tickets.

69932

McAllister describes three conferences to take place in 1955 and encloses tickets for the Russells to come to Rome.

69933

Usborne requests BR's written support for his electoral campaign in Yardley, near Birmingham.

69934

McAllister provides details of appointments in Rome and Paris.

69935

A pamphlet titled La Mia Vita Politica.

69936

An envelope with Lady Russell's name on it and a telephone no. (?). The verso has the address of Mary Tibaldi Chiesa.

69937

McAllister provides a draft message for Usborne's campaign.

69938

McLean met BR in Paris recently and asks BR to attend his Movement's Paris Congress on July 26-29.

69939

McAllister thanks BR for promising to speak in his electoral campaign in Rutherglen and for BR's memo with suggested signatories.

69940

McAllister provides addresses in Scotland for BR's visit.

69941

Armstrong encloses minutes of a meeting of the P.G.W.G.'s executive at which BR could not be present.

69942

Armstrong encloses a draft of a letter to be sent to 25 or 50 scientists inviting them to attend a conference. BR and Boyd Orr are to sign it. BR's disagreement with part of the letter is indicated ("eye-wash"). BR objects to the attempt to "prohibit" weapons of mass destruction.

69943

Armstrong encloses a revised draft letter (see record 69942) and a copy of minutes marked with an omission in the resolution BR is to read at the Scientists' Conference.

69944

Armstrong asks for a photo of BR for a P.G.W.P. booklet.

69945

McLean includes many comments on BR's "The Road to Peace".

The enclosure is taken from The Saturday Review, 2 April 1955, and is by Huston Smith.

69946

A notice about the conference in Paris, July 26-29, of the World Movement for World Federal Government.

69947

The clipping is titled "U.K. Is for Leaving U.N. As It Is", New York Herald Tribune, 11 June 1955.

69948

McLean is delighted that BR will attend the Paris conference.

69949

Usborne wants BR to autograph the enclosed proof (not present) of a Vicky cartoon.

69950

B.T. Batsford will allow contributors a discount on The Bomb.

69951

McLean requests BR's reactions to the Paris conference for publication.

69952

McLean has written a 16-page report on the Paris conference, compiling it from a 5-volume verbatim report.

69953

McAllister requests that BR telephone him.

69954

McAllister writes on arrangements for a meeting at Central Hall on The Bomb.

69955

McAllister encloses a cheque (not present) for BR's contribution to The Bomb.

69956

McAllister invites BR to a dinner party prior to the meeting on The Bomb.

69957

An invitation to hear Lord Silkin and Henry Usborne on Oct. 27.

69958

Boyd Orr writes about a communist-sponsored meeting at which BR is to speak.

69959

Boyd Orr is reassured about BR's part in the meeting sponsored by the British Peace Committee.

69960

Armstrong encloses retyped copies of a press notice by Christian Hamp and William Wainwright's notice of the meeting, "Geneva—a Message to the Ministers", on Oct. 21.

69961

MacDonald requests an article from BR for Canadian World Government News.

69962

The Paris conference of July 26-29 resulted in a resolution.

There is also a French version.

69963

A poem.

69964

Marlowe thanks BR for his speech at a House of Commons dinner last Saturday, and invites him to speak for the P.A.W.G. on March 21 in Conway Hall.

69965

Usborne encloses a reprint of his Manchester Guardian letter, "The International Policeman?", and minutes of the meeting of Feb. 23, 1956, of the P.G.W.G.

69966

Hay requests payment of the annual dues.

69967

Maddan invites BR to associate himself in inviting Harry S. Truman to a private dinner for signatories of the Declaration of Atlantic Unity.

69968

Robinson wants BR to add his signature to the Truman invitation and return it.

69969

Boyd Orr has left BR a telephone message at the Hotel Imperial, Vienna. The hotel calls BR "Your Highness".

The printed message form is attached to a letter of 30 May, 1960.

BR and Boyd Orr were in Vienna in Sept. 1958 for a Pugwash Conference.

69970

Lombardi invites BR to participate in a study conference on Aug. 4-11 near Manchester.

69971

Robinson explains the use of "Mr. President" for former U.S. presidents.

69972

Marlowe, personal assistant to McAllister, invites BR to write for World.

69973

For Truman's letter see record 69975.

69974

Schoenman thanks Gerz for her letter and will do as much as he can for her brother in Russia.

69975

Truman hopes that arrangements can be worked out for him to speak at a private dinner of co-signatories of the Declaration of Atlantic Unity.

69976

Zilinski seeks BR's help in obtaining an exit visa for his sister, Ch. Tainovic. The attached document is in Russian and lists three Tainovics.

69977

Robinson is Executive Secretary of the Conference of Members of Parliament from the NATO Countries.

Robinson invites BR to lunch with Hans Kohn and others.

69978

Enclosed with D. Robinson's letter (see record 69977).

69979

Enclosed is a message from Harry Truman sent through the U.S. State Department and Stanley Woodward.

Truman cannot accept the dinner invitation.

69980

Doris Rose is secretary to Douglas Robinson.

Douglas Robinson is Executive Secretary of the Conference of Members of Parliament from the NATO Countries.

69981

Robinson solicits BR's comments on the enclosed Scotsman supplement on NATO (not present).

69982

Gilbert McAllister is Secretary-General of the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government.

The enclosure is an 11-sheet programme of the Sixth World Parliamentary Conference on World Government in County Hall, London, July 25-31, 1956.

69983

BR cannot attend the Conference of Parliamentarians. The letter is a copy of a reply typed on the verso of the original letter sent by McAllister (see record 69982).
 

69984

Notice of meeting.

69985

The enclosure includes two questions asked in the Commons on July 10, 1957 and one article reprinted from the Manchester Guardian, May 28, 1957, all on a permanent military force in the UN.

69986

There are 2 different enclosed plans on the Federation of Nations.

69987

Usborne's enclosure is dated August 7, 1956, titled "A Suggested Solution", and concerns the Suez crisis. Usborne refers in his letter to BR's letter on Suez.

69988

BR critiques Usborne's "A Suspected Solution" (see record 69987) and comments on India's volume on nuclear warfare.

69989

Ralph Lombardi is Secretary General of the World Movement for World Federal Government.

69990

Patrick Armstrong is Clerk to the Parliamentary Group for World Government.

Armstrong requests BR's signature to a statement on the Suez crisis.

69991

BR agrees to add his signature to the statement on the Suez crisis (see record 69990). "I do not know how McAllister would view the creation of an international authority containing representation of Mau Mau and the Gold Coast to control the Caledonian canal". [Here BR is referring to Kenya, Ghana, and Scotland.]

69992

Usborne responds to BR's criticisms of the Beveridge-Usborne plan and encloses a carbon copy of his article for World Affairs.

69993

A statement issued by the executive of the UN Association on the Suez crisis.

69994

Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party, thanks BR for his telegram and message of support.

69995

Arthur Henderson is Chairman of the Parliamentary Group for World Government.

69996

One enclosure is a pamphlet, The Way to Peace, by the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government.

Also enclosed is a dinner invitation.

69997

Usborne invites BR to a group meeting for December 13, 1956 for a discussion on the "United Nations International Force as a Basis for Peace".

69998

Armstrong invites BR to "speak to the United Nations Society of the London School of Economics" at some point in time during the new school term.

69999

BR agrees to the elimination of "neutral" to please Nehru.

70000
It is assumed that BR's name would be given as a signatory to the letter, but no name appears at the bottom.
70001

Marquand, M.P., belongs to the Parliamentary Group for World Government.

70002

BR is cited several times in the minutes.