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Info only 83 Feb 4 Fr Chronology Major [Chronology] Anglo-German summit at Chequers
Text 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Allen note for McMahon (bank endowment profits) [Scholar says Bank of England note arrived in time (just) and MT used in talking with clearing bank chairmen] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Collins minute for the Governor (planned meeting at No.11 on City problems and Howden case) [to include Lord Cockfield] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Loehnis minute for the Governor ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [need contingency plan for "a further precipitate downward move in the exchange rate"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Housing and Building Control Bill") [amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [interest rates - discussion of scenarios] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Right to Buy") [publicity leaflet 'mail drop'] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Francis Pym minute to Leon Brittan ("BBC External Services' Pay") [subjection to cash limits] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Macfarlane letter to MT (football hooliganism) [recent violence at Football League matches] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Channel 4") ['Broadcast'] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Willie Rickett minute to MT ("Korean Cable Laying Ship for the CEGB") [draft statement to Parliament regarding controversial Korean tender] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Fishing Industry: FCO record of conversation (Pym, Genscher) [FRG license to fish in Canadian waters being hindered by UK import quota restriction on Canadian fish sales to Europe] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Anatoly Shcharansky") [human rights abuse case: proposal by Lord Sieff to offer Soviets an exchange] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: MT letter to Winston Churchill MP (Soviet atrocities towards Afghan civilians) ["Our delegation to the [UN]... has been briefed to draw special attention to the [Logar province] massacre along with other violations of human rights in Afghanistan"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKMIS Geneva telegram 27 to FCO (1710Z) ("Commission on Human Rights: Afghanistan") [statement by Lord Colville on the massacre in Logar Province] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 302 to FCO (2309Z) (“Vice-President Bush’s visit to London: INF”) [nuclear arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT minute to Ministers (“Long-term public expenditure”) [scope for savings] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 298 to FCO (2255Z) (“IMF interim committee”) [conversation between Oliver Wright and Donald Regan] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Paris telegram 95 to FCO (1710Z) (“IMF interim committee: Washington, 10-11 February”) [“The French continue to seek an increase in the size of the fund”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Brasilia telegram 31 to FCO (1840Z) (“IMF interim committee, Washington, 10/11 February”) [conversation between William Harding and Ernane Galveas] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF/IBRD Washington telegram to FCO (“IMF: Kenya - balance of payments support”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF/IBRD Washington telegram to FCO (“IMF interim committee: Chairman’s speaking notes”) [Howe visit to US] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: European Commission paper for European Council & Parliament ("The future financing of the Community") [European Council, 21/22 March] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Boundary Commission Reports and General Election Dates") [prospects of Labour Party Appeal to House of Lords impeding June election] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walker letter to Pym ("UHT milk: European Court judgement") [proposed course of action following legal advice] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker ("CAP price fixing: 1983") ["I would propose... to urge the case [at next week's Agricultural Council] for a tough price settlement on Stoltenberg, the German Finance Minister"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("UHT milk: European Court judgement") ["what should be done to prevent uncontrolled imports... if the European Court rules that our present arrangements are unlawful"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar") [Morán address to Foreign Affairs Senate committee] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Pym minute to MT ("Gibraltar") ["follow-up to initial negotiations with Spain... movement and settlement of Spanish workers in Gibraltar when the frontier is fully opened... possible effects of implementation of the Lisbon Agreement on Spain's integration into the NATO military structure"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Governor of Gibraltar telegram to FCO ("Spanish Mole") ["Length now 1420m and construction continuing"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Parkinson PS letter to No.10 ("1983 Scrutiny Programme") [response notifying non-participation in 1983] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Biffen minute to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") ["no proposals"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Heseltine minute to MT ("Lebanon - deployment of MNF") ["You will wish to be aware of recent developments"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: King minute to MT (Local government expenditure and rates reform) ["possible routes of action"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 Policy Unit record of conversation ("Water Strike") [Vereker, King, Whitelaw: presentational issues/Tom King radio interview] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Scholar ("Prime Minister's meetings on the Water strike") [frequency] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Criteria for support of overseas projects") [Committee report & summary of recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Arab League Delegation") [Urwick record of conversation with King Hussein: date of visit; membership] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Dr. Edmund Marshall MP (closure of Thornhill's chicken factory, Stainforth) ["there are no grounds on which I can seek to intervene"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Visit of Angolan Foreign Minister. Call on Minister for Trade") [background; lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The 1983 non-industrial civil service pay negotiations") [report on first meeting of Ministerial Group; proposed opening offer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Public Expenditure: MT personal minute to Ministers with responsibilities for public expenditure ("Long-Term Public Expenditure") [need for reductions in public expenditure] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to Leigh-Pemberton (thanks for discussion) ["I deplored the press reports of our discussion. It is a great pity that the media so often invent drama and discord"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Civil Service: MT letter to Edward du Cann (Government's response to Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee's report on efficiency and effectiveness in the Civil Service) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Jimmy Savile (congratulations on Stoke Mandeville Appeal so far) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [European Community issues] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF stationing problem, EC-US relations, world economic prospects] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute to MT (“Press Conference”) [main objectives, possible issues] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [background of briefing on bilaterals: world economic situation, arms control and INF talks] [declassified 2013]

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