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- 1949-1981 (Creation)
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Includes correspondence from and concerning Legum.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; Anthony Sampson; Michael Davie; Richard Findlater; William Millinship; Gritta Weil; Donald Trelford; Shlomo Hillel (Israeli Minister of Police); Roger Harrison.
Subjects covered include: Legum's application to join The Observer; his work as Commonwealth correspondent; Michael Scott; Drum newspaper; affairs concerning various countries including Sudan, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, China, Nigeria, Israel, Spain, Uganda, and the United States; the Suez Crisis; an application to the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth for a grant by Legum; Dr [Benjamin] Spock; suggested articles on children's issues; Henry Kissinger and other senior US officials; Lonrho's takeover of The Observer.
Also includes: cuttings on South African affairs; 'confidential non-attributable talk with George Brown', September 1966; 'Reasons for Israel's decision to go to war', 1967; copy letter from Legum to Paul Foot; copy of Legum article, 'How Africa's Asians helped to create their own peril', 8 August 1972; comments on Arianna Stassinopolous' 'The Female Woman' by Margaret Legum; draft of article on Ghana trial; information on Travellers' Rights International; notice of talk by Legum in New York; draft of 'International Flow of News' by Legum and John Cornwell; copy of cartoon of Legum by Trog.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
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Copyright: Guardian News & Media
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- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Astor; Hon; Francis David Langhorne (1912-2001); editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Legum; Colin (1919-2003); journalist (Subject)
- Sampson; Anthony Terrell Seward (1926-2004); writer and journalist (Subject)
- Davie; Michael (1924-2005); journalist and writer (Subject)
- Brown; George Alfred (1914-1985); Baron George-Brown of Jevington; politician (Subject)
- Spock; Benjamin McLane (1903-1998); professor of child development (Subject)
- Foot; Paul Mackintosh (1937-2004); journalist (Subject)
- Bain; Kenneth Bruce Findlater (1921-1985); critic and writer as Richard Findlater (Subject)
- Legum; Margaret; economist and anti-apartheid activist (Subject)
- Stassinopoulos; Arianna; writer (Subject)
- Millinship; William Henry George (1929-2010); journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Weil; Gritta (1924-2009); editorial assistant (Subject)
- Hillel; Shlomo (1923-); Israeli politician (Subject)
- Kissinger; Henry Alfred (1923-2023); US Secretary of State (Subject)
- Cornwell; John (1940-); Director of Observer Foreign News Service (Subject)
- Lonrho (1909-); international trading conglomerate (Subject)
- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Fawkes; Wally (1924-); cartoonist under name 'Trog' (Subject)
- Scott; Michael (1907-1983); Anglican priest (Subject)