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Sender: Drummond-Wolff, Henry Maxence Cavendish
Recipient: Aitken, William Maxwell, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Letters: 2
Date(s): [28 Feb 1963] - 12 Nov 1963
Location: SC 709/740, 747
Note: 1) Reminder of promise to enlist support of Garfield Weston.
2) Solicits support for a non-party organisation to fight for
"British independence and the Commonwealth". 2 ff.
Sender: Russell, Leopold Oliver
Recipient: Drummond-Wolff, Henry Maxence Cavendish
Letters: 32
Date(s): 15 Nov 1962 - 24 May 1967
Location: SC 709/333-4, 345, 346, 347, 348, 352-5, 357, 359, 362, 367, 369-70,
372-4, 378, 380, 384-5, 388, 397, 428-30, 432-3, 436-7
Note: 1) Arrangements for meeting with Garfield Weston 2) Tactical objectives of setting up an anti-Common Market Organisation 3) Development of the Commonwealth Association. MS. 4) Distribution of copies of "The Commonwealth", with a copy of: 346a. Covering letter accompanying the pamphlet 5) Possibility of appointing full-time paid staff; with a copy of a letter to Nevil Henle (347a); 28 March 1963; about the Commonwealth Association 6) Discussion with Alan Plane about directorship of the Commonwealth Association 7) Development of the Commonwealth Association in a pre-election period. 2 ff. 8) Board of Trade's rejection of "Commonwealth Association" as name for the organisation 9) Membership of the Council. 2 ff. 10) Organisation and political balance of the Council. 3 ff. 11) Suggests Prince Phillip be invited to be Patron or President of the organisation; MS. (357a Newspaper cutting of speech by Prince Phillip) 12) Progress in building up the organisation. MS. 13)
Correspondence with Henle on the "Memorandum" and "Articles of Association" of the proposed company. 2 ff. 14) Discussions with John Paul, Leslie etc. 15) Legal delays; Chandos and Harold Watkinson to be approached 16) "Memorandum" and "Articles of Association" obtained from Henle. 2 ff. 17) More names of possible chairmen 18) Company documents received 19) Names of possible chairmen 20) Registration of the Company. 2 ff. (378a another copy) 21) Lord Normanbrook's refusal of chairmanship. Telegram. 22) Acknowledgment of ?1000 cheque for the Commonwealth Policy Group Ltd. 23) Question of
chairmanship. 2 ff. Presumably refers to the Commonwealth Policy Group Ltd. 24) Problems of chairmanship and finance still outstanding. 2 ff. 25) Letter to "The Times"; with a copy of a
letter of congratulations to Douglas Jay (397a) 26) Government Policy 27) Cutting from "Financial Times". MS. 28) Draft of proposed letter to "The Times". MS. 29) Fund-raising problems. MS. 30) Covering note, MS. (433a Copy of letter to "The Times"; list of signatories. 2 ff.) 31) Public Opinion and the Common Market. 2ff. 32) Swing in opinion polls against joining the EEC.