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1984 Jan 9 - 1985 Mar 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 281
Any docs withheld? 1

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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]
85 Jan 4 Fr Major Foreign policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Foreign Office") [MT Chequers meeting with Sir Antony Acland; FCO expenditure and organisation] [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 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 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]
85 Mar 29 Fr Major Foreign policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("FCO: Overseas Risen Costs") [impact of exchange rate movements on FCO expenditure; Treasury and FCO fighting over joint paper, but decision no closer] [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 Feb 8 We Major Foreign policy: Coles letter to Sir Anthony Parsons (contacts with King Hussein and Prince Hassan of Jordan) [possible MT visit to Egypt] [declassified Dec 2014]
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 17 Tu Major Foreign policy: Draft No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting with the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and Chief Secretary 17 July") [draft brief for meeting on FCO expenditure issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr Major Foreign policy: Flesher minute to Coles and MT (Speech by Sir Frank Cooper: "The Year Ahead - British Defence Issues 1984") [attracted some publicity in press] [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 11 We Major Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Exchange Rate Fluctuation and Overseas Inflation") [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 28 Mo Major Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Expenditure on Overseas Activities") [comments on overseas expenditure copied only to MT and Cabinet Secretary] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 28 Mo Major Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Expenditure on Overseas Activities") [comments on overseas expenditure copied only to MT and Cabinet Secretary] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 28 Mo Major Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Expenditure on Overseas Activities") [report on expenditure overseas for which the FCO is responsible] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 24 Th Major Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("FCO Resources") [reflections on FCO expenditure "after nearly a year in my 'new' job"] [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 Jul 26 Th Major Foreign policy: Heseltine minute to MT ("Defence Strategy") [comment on Chiefs of Staff papers on strategy] [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]