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Reference Number GAITSKELL/D/33
TitleVisit to Rome Apr 1957
Date1956-1957
DescriptionProgramme, correspondence and notes about arrangements for a visit made by Gaitskell and his wife to Rome, 20-25 April 1957. They were guests of the Social Democrat Party

Papers:
Business cards
Italian Socialist Party 'Report of the Party Executive to the XXXII Congress' [1957]

Note of Italian press reactions to Gaitskell's visit 20 Apr 1957
Gaitskell MS notes (8ff)
Mounted cuttings of Italian press reports issued by the British Embassy, Rome (10ff) 7-18 Apr 1957
Translations of press reports of communiques from the Directions of PSI and PSDI with respective copies of 'Avanti' and 'La Giustizia' 19 Apr 1957
Italian Socialist Party Parliamentary Group press release 'The Italian Socialist Party and recent international events' [Nov 1956]
Draft and press release of a lecture by Gaitskell 'Democratic Socialism and World Politics' to the Italian Social Democratic Party, Rome 24 Apr 1957
Draft answers by Gaitskell to an interview on Italian reunification (interviewer unspecified)
Copies of 'La Stampa', 'II Messaggero' and 'II Nuovo Corriere Della Sera' with reports of Gaitskell's visit 25 Apr 1957
Cuttings from the British press of Gaitskell finding an Etruscan pot in Cerveteri (4)

Correspondence 1956-1957 includes:
KENDALL, A.C. (British Consulate, Venice), regarding the need for Gaitskell's visit to help relations between the PSI and PSDI. (2)
WILLIAMS, Francis ('Forward') and Morgan Phillips (5)
SARAGAT, Giuseppe (PSDI). It includes a copy of his article 'The Unified Democratic Socialist Party' for 'La Giustizia', 17 Mar 1957; drafts of a letter to Saragat and Gaitskell letter to Aneurin Bevan (16)
ZOPPI, V (Italian Embassy) (3)
HAYTER, William (Foreign Office)
CLARKE, Ashley (British Embassy, Rome), enclosing a note 'State of opinion in the Italian Social Democrat and Socialist parties: April, 1957' (10)
JUCKER, Ninetta (Manchester Guardian)
WESTMINSTER, Archbishop of
VECCHIETTI, Renato
SILONE, Iganatio (Associazione Italiana per la Libert della Cultura)
NENNI, Pietro (PSI)(6)
SKELLY, Mrs. Telegram to Gaitskell
?SPURRIER, Gerald
STOKES, Richard (2)
ROBENS, Alfred, including notes on the political situation in Italy, dated 6 Mar 1957
HANNAFORD, Guy (Legal adviser to the British Embassy, Rome), including notes on the political situation in Italy (forwarded by Alfred Robens' secretary, Margaret Palmer). (6)
ROSSI, Paolo (4)
CHIARAMELLO, Domenico (3)
BALABANOFF, Dr Angelica (2)
ZAGARI, Dr Mario (PSDI) (2)
Extent1 folder
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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