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Depicts Harold Macmillan peering out of 10 Downing Street overlooking a ballot box next to which is a sign, 'please give generously'. Part of Tom Baistow's personal collection.

Cartoon showing Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle sitting on a sofa discussing throwing Soviet leader Khrushchev into the River Seine.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Cartoon depicts De Gaulle, Macmillan and chancellor Adenauer of West Germany cast adrift on a back seat as President Eisenhower heads off in the front seat towards Moscow in the distance. This comments upon the talks in Geneva between the foreign ministers of the USSR, France, Britain and the US where conlcusions were not reached over east-west relations, nuclear weapons and the problem of Berlin. The US decided to try and negotiate with the USSR alone. President Eisenhower had a summit meeting with Khrushchev in Moscow, signalling that there were now only two 'superpowers' on the world stage.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Includes correspondence between Terry Kilmartin and David Astor and the following individuals or their representatives: Iris Murdoch, Sir Leon Bagrit, Iain Macleod, Evelyn Waugh, Peter Brook, Richard Crossman, Vera Nabokov (on behalf of Vladimir Nabokov), T Balogh, Benjamin Britten, John Lennon, Laurence Olivier, Jo Grimond, Lord Bowden, Peter Medawar, Sir Hugh Casson, Harold MacMillan, Harold Pinter, the Duke of Edinburgh, EM Forster, Arthur Koestler, Kingsley Amis, Lord Annan, Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, Lord Butler of Saffron Warren, Graham Greene, Harold Wilson, AJ Ayer, WH Auden, Sir Kenneth Clark, Lord Devlin, Professor PMS Blackett, Solly Zuckerman, Edward Boyle, Peter Ustinov, Robert Graves, [Angus Wilson], Muriel Spark, JK Galbraith, Alan Bennett, John Betjeman, John Bird, Sir Maurice Bowra, Truman Capote, Colin Davis, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Christopher Isherwood, Katharine [Whitehorn], JB Priestley, Mary [McCarthy], Edmund Wilson, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Professor Fred Hoyle, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Penelope Mortimer, John Osborne, Kenneth Tynan, Karl Miller, Malcolm Muggeridge, [Conor] Cruise O'Brien, Dr Alex Comfort.
Also includes lists of people asked.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin

Cartoon showing French Prime Minister Guy Mollet, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, US President Dwight D.Eisenhower, US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Macmillan, trying to identify a comet which appeared in the sky in the spring of 1957.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

The correspondence between David Astor and several high profile individuals, including Winston Churchill, the politician Hugh Gaitskell, the president of Pakistan Ayub Khan, the sculptor Henry Moore, the composer Igor Stravinsky, and Archbishop Lord Geoffrey Fisher. Also included is the list of names of the people which David Astor wished to contact, and a telex concerning the text of the Gromyko interview.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Tristan Jones

Embedded text reads: "If it came to a choice I would choose the Commonwealth" - says Macmillan / Sinister chorus - "Or else!"
Depicts Harold Macmillan dressed as a woman sitting at the doorstep of a house called 'Common Market' chained to a basket full of angry-looking babies.

Depicts Harold Macmillan, John Foster Dulles and an unidentified German politician meeting for German unity talks. In the background is a tombstone entitled 'Here lies the Nazi past of misguided German nationalism'

Cartoon showing Macmillan and Baron Butler of Saffron Walden Richard Austen Butler marching with a Union Jack whilst various British counties fail to follow. Refers to when the Labour Party won a Leicester by-election.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist