Also in file: TEL(TC,X), .181960.

Wilson refuses to reverse Home Secretary's decision not to grant visas for Vietnamese to attend the Tribunal, which could "damage the cause of peace".

Brockway asks Schoenman to call him about a time to talk.

The writer, whose name is uncertain, conveys the Home Secretary's decision not to grant visas to members of the N.L.F.

"Not sent".

BR criticizes Wilson's decision not to reverse the Home Secretary's decision re visas for BR's Vietnamese guests.

BR criticizes Wilson's decision to uphold the Home Secretary's decision to withhold visas from BR's "guests" from Vietnam. The letter is replete with detail about the Vietnam war.

Andrews acknowledges BR's letter of March 27 to Wilson.

Jenkins reports in detail on the results of the investigation of Schoenman's allegations about the break-in at 3 & 4 Shavers Place. No further action will be taken.

The Home Office replies to Schoenman's solicitors about the police action on Dec. 26, 1966. No further action will be taken.

BR sets out inconsistencies in Jenkins' view of the break-in at Shavers Place.

Wilson will not comment on BR's assertions in his last letter but thinks BR will agree that the decisions he has taken are rightly the responsibility of Her Majesty's government.

Chilcot acknowledges BR's letter to Jenkins on April 6.

Evans is an M.P. BR thanks him for his kind remarks about BR in the House of Commons on April 21.

Jenkins replies to some of the points in BR's previous letter and states that BR's charges at the end of his letter are "totally without foundation".

Knight wishes BR congratulations on his 95th birthday and provides details of a conference on June 10 and 11.

Document .181975 is a photocopy of the letter, and documents .181976 to .181979 are information sheets and forms for the 5th National Conference on Workers Control and Industrial Democracy.

BR is "pleased" that the Home Office will now grant visas to Tribunal members, according to The Observer of May 28. It is not clear that BR believes this to be governmental policy.

BR is glad of the 5th National Conference on Workers' Control and Industrial Democracy.

A TL(CAR,X) is also in the file, document .181982.

Wilson denies that new instructions have been given for the admission of foreigners for the Tribunal.

BR asks that Ken Coates be provided with all possible assistance while he attends the trial of Regis Debray in La Paz, Bolivia.

BR protests against British legislation regarding non-whites who hold British passports.

Also in file: galley proofs, document .181987; and offprints of the article; and Fenner Brockway's letter to the editor in response, clipping, document .181991.

The date is the date of the Trafalgar Square rally, given in the full title.

Stetler seeks Foot's initiative in combatting the Home Office's statement that Ralph Schoenman will not be permitted to re-enter Britain.

Also in file: 2 TDS(X), documents .181992, .181993.

The date is taken from the full title and is the date of the march.

Re germ warfare research in British universities.

Also in file: 2 more TEL(TC,CAR), document .182002, and TEL(TC,CAR), document .181996.

Two versions of a statement on Tariq Ali. Document .182004 is a press statement, TD(MIM), that was published as B&R F68.01. Document .182005 is a clipping of it.

Re: the threatened deportation of Tariq Ali.

Also in file: "Press Statement on the Exchange of Correspondence".

Byng asks BR to sign a letter in support of A.S. Neill's Summerhill School. A note by Farley at the top says: "Signed 3/5/68".

Also in file: another TL(CAR), documents .182012, .182014 (encl.). The letter is published in Bertrand Russell on Student Power (see record 135560.

BR signs a declaration on racial discrimination.

BR accepts Coates' invitation to become a patron of the Institute for Workers' Control.

On Schoenman's desire to remain living and working in Britain.

On the arrest and deportation of Ralph Schoenman.

BR announces his appeal to "men of the Left" to petition Premier Kosygin to renounce the prospect of using military force in Czechoslovakia.

A message is requested for a protest meeting on Aug. 8 on Pope Paul and birth control.

BR encloses his statement on the Pope's encyclical on birth control, documents .182026 and .182027, both TD(CAR); see record 71339.

On birth control.

Also in file: another TD(CAR), document .182027.

Ennals requests a message from BR for Prisoner of Conscience Week as established by the UN Human Rights Year Programme.

In an unknown hand at the top: " I think we should send a message".

In his statement BR supports the disbanding of the Committee of 100, "though it should have been taken several years ago."

BR (who is assumed to be the sender) congratulates Brockway on his 80th birthday.

Lord Robbins, chairman of the Court of Governors of L.S.E., seeks BR's support for the L.S.E. Library.

Coates requests a voiding of his expulsion from the Labour Party.

BR provides a message for Prisoner of Conscience Week.

An official thanks BR for his telegram of Nov. 21 to the Prime Minister.

MacRae responds to BR's telegram of Nov. 21 to Wilson about the Greek death sentence on Alexandros Panagoulis.

BR does not know how to secure the money that the L.S.E. Library needs, but hopes that the School will share power with the students.

BR encloses his brief foreword to the Einstein-Born correspondence. He tells Hund that he had difficulty reading the letters as the copies were faint.

BR condemns the neutrality policy of the Commonwealth Conference.

Farley tells Whitaker that BR no longer nominates anyone for the Nobel Prize because he receives too many requests to do so.

A message to L.S.E. students who are demanding the re-opening of L.S.E.

Farley encloses a message from the BRPF to the "NATO and the Problems of Peace" conference, March 8, 1969, document .182044.

BR tells Lord Chorley what he thinks are necessary elements of a foundation for the defence of academic freedom.

Farley thanks Newens for assistance with publishing reports from the Stockholm Conference on Vietnam.

BR's blurb for Hoch and Schoenbach's book appeared on a belly-band.

The date is taken from the clipping, document .182051. The letter concerns the use of CS gas in Londonderry by the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Farley's revision of the letter was published in Morning Star, Dec. 1, 1969; document .182053.

On George Brown and his support of the American war in Vietnam.

Farley asks Kerr to invite M.P.s to associate themselves with BR's appeal to U Thant (not enclosed).

Kerr will bring BR's appeal to U Thant to the attention of the Tribune group of M.P.s.

Goring seeks BR's signature on a letter concerning the Third Programme of the BBC.

BR requests that the time to replace the BRPF's switchboard be shortened from the estimate of 9 months.

An attached note in Farley's hand reads: "N.B. This must be one of BR's last letters."

Viscount Hall is the addressee.

On the meeting on March 13 to honour the life of BR.

Dave Dellinger will not be able to attend because of the withdrawal of his passport; ironically, Tran Cong Tuong will be, although previously BR's Vietnamese guests had been banned.

Thant is grateful for BR's kind letters of May 22 and will meet BR in London July 5-7.

BR has been appealed to by political prisoners in Greece and hopes that his letter to the General Assembly of the UN may be presented.

For the letter referred to, see record 71409.

Also in file: 2 more TL(CAR), documents .182061 and .182062.

Thant tells BR that existing UN rules prevent him from presenting BR's letter addressed to the General Assembly.

Thant discusses the UN's financial crisis and his meeting with Ralph Schoenman in London.

BR hopes Thant will be able to write a message of support for the public brochure of the BRPF.

Schoenman and Pat Pottle are going to Ceylon, India and China, and later to Iraq.

In the view of his official position, U Thant cannot comment on the position taken by Khrushchev in his letter to BR on UN finances.

Ellis, secretary to BR, thanks Thant for his message concerning the BRPF. "Your words have encouraged us all."

BR thanks Thant for his message, which "greatly enhances the public document" of the BRPF.

Farley encloses (not present) "the first brief document" concerning the BRPF with Thant's message.

BR announces a press conference in his home on Sept. 29, 1963 for the formal launching of the BRPF, and thanks Thant for his essential support of this work.

BR updates Thant on the work of the BRPF. BR is disturbed "by the circumstances which surround the death of President Kennedy".

BR encloses (not present) a copy of a letter he is sending to President Johnson.

BR is concerned about the danger of full-scale war in Vietnam. He encloses (not present) letters to the London Observer and American newspapers. He also writes on Cyprus to Thant.

Thant thanks BR for his letter to Johnson and his "kind words" on Cyprus.

Schoenman would like to meet with U Thant during Schoenman's visit to New York from June 3 to 13.

Schoenman writes on the Sino-Indian border dispute, Vietnam, and the Middle East.

BR is convening a meeting in London on July 9 of unofficial but eminent people on the war in Vietnam.

BR thanks U Thant for receiving Schoenman and looks forward to his meeting with Thant on July 24.

This letter is very similar to that dated a day earlier, record 71380, document .182076.

The word "statement" has been written in pencil at the top.

Thant hopes that he and BR may be able to meet on July 23 in London.

BR will be very happy to see U Thant on July 23.

U Thant will be happy to call on BR around 11:45 am on July 23.

Now Thant wants to meet with BR at 10:45 am on July 23.

BR met with Linus Pauling and J.D. Bernal recently and will campaign for reconvening the Geneva powers.

BR writes about recent events in Vietnam and the BRPF's need for backing.

On BR's proposals for the Gaza Strip and the Jordan Valley.

BR thinks a breakthrough may be possible in the Middle East and hopes U Thant will support the BRPF's appeal for funds through David Owen, Executive Chairman of the UN Technical Assistance Board.

BR wishes U Thant a swift recovery from his illness.

Schoenman wishes U Thant a speedy recovery. He encloses (not present) some recent articles by BR.

U Thant is signing this letter on the first day of his return to work.

On the situation in Vietnam.

U Thant acknowledges BR's letter of Nov. 9, 1965 to the Security Council and states his own views on the Vietnam war.

BR would welcome an article from Thant for the BRPF's new journal, The Spokesman. (It did not appear until 1970.)

U thant can't write for The Spokesman, but BR is welcome to use his speeches.

On the kidnapping and probable murder of Ben Barka.

U Thant cannot take any public action regarding Ben Barka.

U Thant encloses two speeches: one at Kingston, Ontario, and the other at San Francisco.

Mimeo copies of the speeches are present (documents .182097 and .182098).

BR thanks U Thant for his enclosures (the speeches) and sends him a copy of his message to the Helsinki conference.