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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number GAITSKELL/D/6
TitleCorrespondence and papers relating to Gaitskell's USA and Canada Visit Jul - Aug 1953
DateJuly-September 1953
DescriptionProgrammes of tour arrangements, memoranda, rough notes (8)
Couchiching Conference lecture notes: typescript drafts 'An Economic Programme for Peace' (2) and MS notes for 'The Rising Tide of Discontent'
Menu for a dinner for the Guaranty Trust Co, New York Aug 1953
Press cutting (paper unknown) about the perjury indictment agianst Owen Lattimore Aug 1953
International Monetary Fund Study by R.F.Harod, Christ Church, Oxford 'Imbalance of International Payments' Dec 1952
'The Need for International Financing of Exports' by P.N.Rosenstein-Rodan n.d.
Issue 2 'Merrill Center High and Low Notes' Jul 1953
Press release of an address by Scott McLeod, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, to the American Legion Convention, Topeka, Kansas 8 Aug 1953
National City Bank of New York monthly letter Aug 1953
Pamphlet 'Notes on the Foreign Situation Based on a Trip Abroad' Jun 1953


Correspondence prior to and during the visit includes:
ELLISTON, Herbert, Israeli Embassy to
FRANKFURTER, Hon.Justice Felix, Israeli Embassy to
[DANIELS], Kay (Gaitskell's secretary) (6 plus carbons)
FRANKLIN, George S. (Council on Foreign Relations) (3)
ALEXANDER, Henry (J.P.Morgan & Co) (2)
BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES (Joy Wright, and D'Arcy Edmondson) including sketches of Edmondson's flat (19) from Jun 1952
SWORD, Jack. H.(University of Toronto). Also Edgar McInnis (Canadian Institute of International Affairs), and Frank Peers (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Includes programmes and information on the Couchiching Conference 1952 and 1953 (19)
HARRIS & PARTNERS, Toronto
BLISS, Gabriela to DG
GELBER, Marvin (Canadian Institute of International Affairs)(2)
WIDERMAN, Hans
HERLING, John
CHRISTOPHERSON, Paul
O'CONNOR, Margaret
WRIGHT, Joy (British Information Services)
STEWART, Louise
?PITTENDRICH, Ann (Royal Institute of International Affairs)
THE TOWN HALL INC. (William, R Traum, Harriet C Halsband, Betty Clare Agree) regarding the broadcast (25 August 1953) of 'America's Town Meeting of the Air', including one covering letter from Joy Wright and transcript (previously Gaitskell/D/6/2)
WEIR, Ernest T.
SULZBERGER, Arthur Hays (The New York Times)

Correspondence on Gaitskell's return Aug-Sep 1953 includes
MACDONALD, Dorothy (2)
PINKHAM, Richard (NBC TV, 'Today' programme )
PERRY, P.J., enclosing a copy of 'The Perry Recovery Plan', dated 1944, and copies of his letters to Winston Churchill and R.A.Butler, dated 1953 (10)
HUSON, Prof A.Gordon (2)
WARD, Thomas E., enclosing a copy of his article 'Constructive Management of Foreign Exchange Operations', dated 1948, and a cutting of a letter to the 'New York Times', dated 18 Aug 1953 (5)
ROCHE, John P., enclosing a reprint of his article 'The Crisis in British Socialism' from 'The Antioch Review' (3)
VEGH, Imrie de, Gaitskell to
NYE, Sir Archibald, Gaitskell to
MAKINS, Roger, Gaitskell to
GELBER, Marvin B. (2)
UPGREN, Arthur, enclosing press cuttings of his articles in the 'Minneapolis Star' (6)
HARRIMAN, Averill, Gaitskell to.
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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