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Cables written and received by Tom Baistow for and from the Daily Herald office in London as correspondent in the Congo, January - February 1961.

In addition there are copy for articles, identification cards and other correspondence.

These were kept by Tom Baistow in a folder titled 'Congo cables'.

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.

Notebook written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: refugees and food supplies in the Republic of the Congo; military presence in the Republic of the Congo; the death of [Patrice Lumumba]; relations between the UN and the Republic of the Congo; European teachers, teacher training and children in educational establishments in the Republic of the Congo; unrest and conflict in the Republic of the Congo; [Federal] cuts to development schemes in Nyasaland; education and funding for teacher training in East Africa; calls for Kenyan independence; and the release of Jomo Kenyatta.

Names featured include: [Captain Purdon], Moïse Tshombe, Patrice Lumumba, Valerian Zorin, Jean Foster Manzikala, Victor Lundula, Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, Sir Roy Welensky, JK [Jomo Kenyatta]; [Daniel Toroitich arap] Moi and [Ole] Tipis.

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.

Depicts Dag Hammarskjöld standing in a Congolese village with dead bodies lying around and a message scribbled on a wodden fence reads 'go home Dag and let us fight in peace'.

Press cuttings of articles written by Tom Baistow for the Daily Herald from his work as correspondent in the Congo from January until February 1961.

In addition there are three press cuttings of articles written by Tom Baistow for The Spectator, News Chronicle and Daily Herald unrelated to the Congo crises.

These press cuttings were retained in a different file to general press cuttings by Tom Baistow.

Cartoon shows two naval officers on the docks of a port. Both men are looking up at a load of packages which is being lowered to them, one reaches towards the packages the other is already carrying off a box. Large ships are visible in the background and a warehouse has the word "Tilbury" written on its facade.

[Most likely relates to strike actions by the dock workers at the Port of Tilbury in London, which occured in numerous instances throughout the early 1970s and 80s.]

File entitled 'Congress' by Hugo Young containing papers collected during his time as a Harkness fellow in the United States.

Includes handwritten and typed notes and copies of newsletter written by Hugo Young, and research papers and articles.
Creator: DS/UK/122

Correspondence and memos to, from and concerning O'Brien.

Subjects covered include: personnel matters including O'Brien's appointment, conditions of his role as editor-in-chief, readers' complaints about his appointment, expansion of the Observer by 18 columns to include international politics under the headings 'New Frontiers' and 'One World', suggestions for articles and the appointment of foreign correspondents, opinions on the role of the management committee and proper channels of communication, relationship between Magazine and newspaper, coverage of general election in 1978, contents of O'Brien's editorials, system for monitoring and improvement of style in Observer, criticism of IRA article, publishing of readers' letters, his departure to America and readers' letters concerned with the way O'Brien departed from the Observer.

Also includes: Press release 'Conor Cruise O'Brien joins the Observer as editor-in-chief' (17 December 1977), article from the Observer Magazine (2 September 1973) 'Conor Cruise O'Brien: Irishman Extraordinaire', 'Outlook from West to East' Ewart-Briggs Memorial Lecture at Trinity College Dublin (17 January 1978), 'Threatened Freedoms' address by O'Brien to the Advertising Association London (22 May 1978), 'Government and Broadcasting' lecture by Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien to the Independent Broadcasting Authority (28 March 1979), and other scripts for speeches.

Correspondents include: Donald Trelford, Brian Nicholson, Roger Harrison, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Colin Legum.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Creator: Hamilton-West; Edward (1933-2011); photographer