File 110 - Scrapbook '29.3.1961 to 1.1.1962'

1 vol

Press cuttings on Home Office work including prop corporal punishment lobby, pressure for abolition of hanging, proposed immigration curbs and Commonwealth Immigrants Bill, victory over the 'floggers' at 1961 Annual Conference and report of Royal Commission on the Police, also House of Lords Reform, eligibility of Wedgwood Benn as an M.P., controversy over RAB's Madrid speech about closer links between Spain and the West, RAB Chairman of Cabinet negotiations Oct 1961-, anti-nuclear rallies by Committee of 100, RAB's appointment to Central African Office and visit to Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland May 1962, Orpington by-election; original letter from Harold Macmillan asking RAB to take charge of the Government for four days in Dec 1961; press cuttings of births of grandchildren, Mollie becoming President of Women's Advisory Council of London Conservative Associations; photographs of RAB taking farewell of Nyasaland Government Ministers at Zomba airfield (7 docs) and taking the salute at Zomba airfield, RAB with Dr H.K. Banda, leader of Malawi Congress Party, and Sir Glyn Jones, Governor of Nyasaland, during break in talks (2 docs), RAB with Sir Roy Welensky, RAB and Mollie during African tour (2 docs), RAb and Mollie with Somerset Maugham at Royal Society of Literature function c. May 1961 (2 docs), RAB and Mollie in evening dress at unidentified function, at Epsom Derby 1962, RAB inspecting police at annual parade at Police Training Centre, Ryton in Dunsmore, Warwickshire, June 1962