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1984 Oct 2 - 1985 May 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1435
Defence (Celebration of 40th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 189
Any docs withheld? 5

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85 Jan 28 Mo Major Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("40th Anniversary of Victory in Europe") [MT advised to add to agenda for Cabinet in order for quick decision to be reached on Heseltine proposals for marking of the anniversary] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 5 Su Major Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("VE Day: Exchange of Messages") [analysis of Gorbachev's message; coordination of the publication of MT & Gorbachev messages] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 1 We Major Defence: FCO telegram 434 to UKE Moscow (1630Z) ("40th Anniversary: Attendance at Soviet Commemoration") [text of MT's message of goodwill to Gorbachev, published - with additional handwritten comment - on 7 May] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 7 Tu Major Defence: Gorbachev message to MT (UKE Moscow telegram 651 of 6 May to FCO, 1430Z) ("Soviet Commemoration of VE Day: Messages") [goodwill message] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 26 Fr Major Defence: Greater London Council minute to Department of Environment ("Secretary of States Consents") [GLC's proposed celebrations for VE Day, including invitation to Soviets] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 29 Tu Major Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War") ["proposals as to the form which a national celebration... might take"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 6 Tu Major Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War") [proposals in regard to Service in Westminster Abbey] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 19 Tu Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Israeli World Assembly to Commemorate the Defeat of Nazi Germany") [Howe advice on extent of UK involvement; draft MT message to Assembly] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 22 Fr Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (VE Day Commemoration Service: invitation to Lord Mayor of London) ["The present view here is that... [he] should be invited"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 2 Tu Major Defence: Howe minute to MT ("VE Day: Representation in Moscow") [proposals; MT/Gorbachev exchange of messages] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 30 Tu Major Defence: Howe minute to MT ("VE Day: Representation in Moscow") [proposals; notice of French/US intentions] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 29 Mo Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("40th Anniversary of VE Day: Reception at the Soviet Embassy on 7 May") [attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 29 We Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("40th Anniversary: Sir J Bullard's Despatch of 21 May") [analysis of how the anniversary played out in West Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 15 Tu Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of VE Day") [FCO advice & lines to take for Questions in Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 6 Tu Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commemoration of the End of the Second World War") [issues; proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 28 Th Major Defence: Lord Gowrie PS letter to Heseltine PS ("VE-Day Celebrations") [Bernard Levin proposal for survivors/family of German Resistance & '20th July' Bomb Plot to be invited] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 7 Tu Major Defence: MT letter to Gorbachev (40th Anniversary of the End of the War in Europe) [goodwill message] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 15 Tu Major Defence: No.10 letter to Heseltine PS ("Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of VE Day") [request for MoD proposals; MT answers to questions in Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 1 We Major Defence: No.10 note for the file ("VE Day Service at Westminster Abbey") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 25 Th Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation ("VE Day: President Reagan's Visit to a German War Cemetery") [Charles Powell, Teltschik: regarding MT's "alleged criticism in the House of Commons this afternoon"] [declassified Dec 2014]