Research material relating to the arms crisis between the United States (US), Western Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Material includes: newspapers, photocopies of articles and clippings from newspapers and periodicals, including clippings of Observer articles by Ian Mather; United States Information Service Wireless Files; printed interview transcripts with statements from Soviet dignitaries; briefings from the Defence Information Groups and School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford; press releases from 10 Downing Street, Novosti Press Agency, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Cruise Resistance and McDonnell Douglas Corporation; printed literature and leaflets from McDonnell Douglas Corporation, General Dynamics and Cruise Resistance; photocopies of correspondence between Cruise Resistance members and various individuals; maps of the United Kingdom (UK), Salt Lake Desert area in Utah, US, and the USSR and photographs, showing missiles being launched.

Subjects covered include: Warsaw Pact; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces and Strategic Defense Initiative talks in Geneva; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II); 'Star Wars' and the production, testing and deployment of cruise missiles in Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Holland; NATO; the setting up of Cruisewatch by Cruise Resistance, with the aim of monitoring the activities of cruise missile convoys in the UK, especially around the Greenham Common base in Salisbury Plain, Berkshire, England; protests organised by Cruise Resistance and CND in opposition to missile deployment; promotion of missiles from the General Dynamics company, who manufactured Tomahawk Ground Launch Cruise Missiles, used by the US Air Force; chronology of US/USSR summits since 1943; US President Ronald Reagan; Paul H. Nitze, special advisor to Secretary of State George Shultz, later special advisor to Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters; and Andrei Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

The majority of material is in English, but there is also material in Russian.

Individuals featured include: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Douglas Hurd, Paddy Ashdown, Neil Kinnock, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Tony Benn, Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson, Helmut Kohl, Richard Nixon, Georges Pompidou.

Subjects and events featured include: the European Economic Community, ERM, Brussels, the Maastricht Treaty, the Netherlands, Japan, pollution, fish stocks, sovereignty, the single currency, farmers, budget, subsidies.

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on the UN and Katanga [now part of The Democratic Republic of the Congo] including: UN forces in the Congo; conflict and casualties; the evacuation of foreign nationals; foreign aid; judges, legal training and the judicial system in the Congo; the status of the new government; and medical training in France.

Names featured include: Zaslavsky, Brigadier Ward, [Victor] Lundula, Patrice Lumumba, Colonel Ayayo, Major Gulliver, Dr. Grossen and Sayed Omer Abdel Hamid Adil.

Also contains cuttings of two newspaper articles written in French relating to a [Youth creation project in Leopoldville and the creation of a Kantangese maritime campaign].

Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Correspondence from Nora Beloff to her family covering January to November of 1948. The letters provide an account of Beloff's life as French correspondent for the Observer and her continued work for the Economist. In her letters she describes the working conditions of a Paris correspondent and in particular the practicalities of using the offices of the French newspaper 'Le Monde' as her base. Her letters from February include a detailed account of a working visit to Brussels. A letter from August makes a reference to writing a book about France for Hutchinson publishers. In Beloff's letters from November she discusses how her contract with The Observer will develop and the decision that she should take on the position of Washington correspondent. At the end of this file are some letters without dates and a letter which is incomplete.

Correspondence with newspapers and news agencies; lists of local contacts; itineraries and travel reports relating to Derek Ingram's (Gemini editor), promotional visits to Iran, Thailand, Lebanon, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan and European countries, including The Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Cyprus, 1969-1972.

Correspondence concerning subscriptions and potential subscriptions to Gemini News Service by newspapers, magazines, news agencies and organisations in Belgium, 1967-1995, including the European Economic Community; ISO Press; Gazet van Antwerpen and Vooruit.

Includes Embassies and High Commissions for:

Antigua and Barbuda
Egypt
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Eastern Caribbean States
Chile
Cuba
Denmark
Fiji
Germany
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Korea
Laos
Lebanon
Liberia
Luxembourg
Malawi
Malaysia
Mauritius
Mexico
Morocco
Mozambique
Nepal
Nicaragua
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Tanzania
Thailand
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkey
United Arab Republic
United States
Vietnam
Zimbabwe

This idea book is dated 20 October 1991-26 October 1992 and features ideas on John Major, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, Norman Lamont, Robin Cook, Michael Heseltine, Europe, Economic and Monetary Union, the Maastricht Treaty, education, recession and other aspects of domestic politics.

Written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on the Republic of the Congo, including: economic aid to [the Congo / Katanga]; conflict and the UN, Belgian and Soviet involvement; food distribution; unemployment; natural resources; manufacturing, mining and the economy; government debt and financial crisis; petrol shortages and UN forces including Irish soldiers. Also contains notes concerning SR [Southern Rhodesia] including Leopold Takawira and the condition of lakes and rivers in Africa.

Names featured include: Dr Thomas Evans, Daphne Park, [Kwame] Nkrumah, [Patrice] Lumumba, [Louis Edgar] Detwiler, Tai Solarin, Charles Bayuko, Pascal Nkayi, [Albert] Ndele, [Ralph] Bunche and J M Caldecott.

Page 9 contains a letter of introduction for Clyde Sanger to Dr Balwatz from Daphne Paul.

Transcribed by Rosemarie Dowsett in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Individuals featured include: Harry Jackson, [Neville] Cardus, [John] Arlott, [Brian] Johnstone, [James Cameron], Peregrine Worsthorne, Peter Jenkins, EP Thompson, Jill Tweedie, [Crispin Aubrey, John Berry, Duncan Campbell], Norman Shrapnel, Francis Boyd, Mike Lake, Max Hastings, Mary Holland, Simon Winchester and Derek Malcolm.

Places featured include: [Cross Street], Manchester (the newsroom and offices); Gray's Inn Road, London; the Europa hotel, Belfast.

Events featured include: the ABC trial, an NGA strike.