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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1504
Foreign Policy (Strategy on foreign policy and defence issues: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) resources) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 281
Any docs withheld? 1
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Africa), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Foreign policy (Middle East), European Union (general), European Union Budget, Defence (general), Defence (Falklands), Security services & intelligence, Executive, British policy towards South Africa

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Date Value Title
84 Jul 20 Fr Major Foreign policy: David Willetts minute to No.10 ("FCO Expenditure: Exchange Rate Fluctuations") [comments on disagreement between Foreign Secretary and Rees] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mo Major Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cradock & Powell) [MT "reflected out loud ... on a number of current problems"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mo Major Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Rees PS ("FCO Expenditure") [response to disagreement between Rees and Foreign Secretary] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 25 We Major Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Europe and Defence") [European and US commitments to NATO] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 26 Th Major Foreign policy: Heseltine minute to MT ("Defence Strategy") [comment on Chiefs of Staff papers on strategy] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 26 Th Major Foreign policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Europe and Defence") [response to Foreign Secretary's minute: "[it] is unexceptionable but does not amount to much", the problems all too well-known, but the proposals for action hardly measure up] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 27 Fr Major Foreign policy: Charles Powell letter to Foreign Secretary PS ("Europe and Defence") [response to Foreign Secretary's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Aug 1 We Key Foreign policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("The Diplomatic Service") [Howe sends parting thoughts of Chief Clerk; CDP comments on the "Foreign Office way of looking at the world" - "At worst it can degenerate into a tendency to pre-emptive surrender"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Aug 1 We Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("NATO Strategy") [papers produced by the Chiefs of Staff] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Aug 3 Fr Major Foreign policy: Charles Powell letter to Foreign Secretary PS ("The Diplomatic Service") [MT "disagrees with a number of views expressed" by Sir Derek Day] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Aug 10 Fr Major Foreign policy: Heseltine minute to MT ("Europe and Defence") [Heseltine response to Foreign Secretary's minute; MT: "I doubt the need for so many 'general point' papers. They get nowhere."] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Aug 21 Tu Major Foreign policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Europe and Defence") [comment on minutes by Foreign Secretary and Heseltine] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Aug 29 We Major Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Heseltine PS ("Europe and Defence") ["The Prime Minister has commented that she doubts the need for so many "general point" papers since they get nowhere"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 26 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Percy Cradock, 29 October") [his move to JIC chair; BMD; Gorbachev visit; MT Peking visit; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 29 Mo Major Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cradock & Powell) [East-West relations, Middle East, Southern Africa, SDI, arms control, China, Pakistan and Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 6 Tu Minor Foreign policy: Hoskyns letter to MT (letter from Laurent Murawiec of the Schiller Institute) [concerns about the rise of the Green party in West Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 12 Mo Minor Foreign policy: Hoskyns letter to Powell (follow up to letter to MT regarding the Schiller Institute) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 14 We Minor Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary PS letter to No.10 (letter and paper from Laurent Murawiec of the Schiller Institute) ["It is a farrago of prejudiced and unsubstantiated propositions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 16 Fr Minor Foreign policy: MT letter to Hoskyns (letter and paper from Laurent Murawiec of the Schiller Institute) ["In general the paper is a good deal stronger on unsubstantiated propositions than it is on facts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 21 We Minor Foreign policy: Hoskyns letter to MT (letter and paper from Laurent Murawiec of the Schiller Institute) ["As you advise, I will keep the Schiller Institute at arms length"] [declassified Dec 2014]