Documento 104 - Scrapbook '1948-1955'

1 vol

Press cuttings about RAB's involvement in education matters, his House of Commons opposition to Government policy on the N.H.S., abolition of University M.P.s and the Middle East, Conservative charters on agriculture, imperial policy and The right road for Britain, visit to Italy 1949, twenty years as an M.P. and Honorary Degree of Oxford University, RAB as Chancellor of the Exchequer including budgets and speculation on his succeeding to premiership (Jan 1952); articles by RAB on Unesco, education, 'The challenge of 1948' from Picture Post; texts of broadcasts by RAB including 'What Conservatives stand for'; original letters from Anthony Eden to RAB (March 1948) on political situation, RAB to parents (11 Sept 1949 and 23 April 1951) including from Commonwealth Relations Conference, Sydney to Lady Butler (10 June 1949) describing luncheon with Winston Churchill at Chartwell, Lord Halifax to Lady Butler; newspaper cartoons particularly from January 1952 and 1952 Budget; photograph of RAB at Colston Boys' School, Bristol, prize giving; obituaries of Sir Montagu Butler and text of oration from ?Pembroke College, Cambridge, memorial service; ceremonial papers and cuttings on death and funeral of H.M. King George VI