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OBS/1/2/1/1/7
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Correspondence of David Astor with high profile individuals
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- 1958-1962 (Creation)
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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
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- Jones; Tristan (1913-1990); managing director of The Observer (Subject)
- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Nicholson; Brian Thomas Graves (1930-); journalist and managing director of the Observer (Subject)
- Gaitskell; Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963); politician (Subject)
- Fisher; Geoffrey Francis (1887-1972); Baron Fisher of Lambeth; Archbishop of Canterbury 1945-1961 (Subject)
- Stravinsky; Igor (1882-1971); composer (Subject)
- Churchill; Sir; Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965); knight, statesman, and historian (Subject)
- Macmillan; Maurice Harold (1894-1986); 1st Earl of Stockton; politician (Subject)
- Moore; Henry (1898-1986); sculptor (Subject)
- Khan; Mohammed Ayub (1907-1974); Prime Minister of Pakistan (Subject)
- Gromyko; Andrei Andreevich (1909-1989); Soviet politician (Subject)
- The Observer (1791-); Sunday newspaper (Subject)
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