1984 Oct 1 - 1986 Sep 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1764
Germany (Anglo-German relations) (Part 3)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
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| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 306 |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 84 Oct 8 Mo | Minor | Germany: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Anglo-German Special Advisers/Private Secretary contacts") [suggested meeting] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 10 We | Major | Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible call on the Prime Minister by the FRG Minister of the Interior: Dr Friedrich Zimmermann") ["...an opportunity to emphasise our commitment to... reduce environmental pollution."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 11 Th | Major | Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The German Question") [reunification: "The division into two states is firm and stable for the foreseeable future."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Major | Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (working together) [Conservative Party delegation visit to Bonn; defence; EC budget; future of EC; meeting in November] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 29 Mo | Major | Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Review of Anglo/German relations: appointment of Mr Nigel Forman MP") [does not go ahead following MT criticism of Howe's choice] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 29 Mo | Major | Germany: UK Ambassador Bonn minute to Head of Chancery ("Chancellor Kohl") ["By moving a Wagnerian soprano out of the way I was able to get a chair next to Kohl's... we must persevere in the attempt to understand [him]..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 30 Tu | Minor | Germany: UK Ambassador Bonn minute to Head of Chancery (for circulation as necessary) ("Breakfast with Strauss") [doesn't go down well] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 5 Mo | Major | Germany: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-German relations") ["We have recently been working rather effectively with the French on some Community issues. It is with the Germans, curiously, that we face almost more difficulty in establishing a working relationship."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Major | Germany: German Ambassador to the UK letter to MT (Prime Minister's interview for Die Welt, November 2 1984) ["...right when she said the identity of the European states must be preserved... [FRG however now convinced of need to formalise] cooperation between EC states. This was particularly true in foreign policy..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Major | Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Anglo-German relations") [future of the European Union] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Major | Germany: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (bilateral talks) [future of EC; Dooge Committee; internal market/job creation; defence/NATO/Brussels Treaty] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 9 Fr | Minor | Germany: Julian Bullard letter to No.10 ("Chancellor Kohl") [conversation with Bergsdorff] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 19 Mo | Major | Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("PUS's talks with State Secretary Meyer-Landrut: 19 November") [East/West relations; SDI; INF; SALT 2; conventional arms control] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 27 Tu | Major | Germany: No.10 briefing for MT ("Telephone conversation with Chancellor Kohl") [Kohl visit to US; nuclear arms control; conventional defences; US economy; UN Law of the Sea Convention] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 28 We | Major | Germany: No.10 record of conversation ("Anglo-German relations: Prime Minister's telephone call with Chancellor Kohl") [military conscription, the Church and socialism in Germany; Kohl visit to US; nuclear arms control; conventional defences; US economy] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Dec 14 Fr | Minor | Germany: Ministry of Agriculture record of conversation (Jopling, German Minister of Agriculture and others) [cereal surpluses; milk quotas; beef prices; Agriculture Council budget] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 18 Fr | Major | Germany: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Heseltine, German Defence Minister and others) [chemical weapons/arms control; INF; conventional defences; defence expenditure; SDI ; WEU; SP70; MLRS; EFA; Franco-German/Italian options for UK purchase of anti-armour helicopter; ALARM] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 22 Tu | Major | Germany: Heseltine minute to MT ("Non-combatant evacuation from Germany") [in event of major international crisis] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 6 We | Major | Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Whither the Federal Republic?") [Bullard letter and MT concerns about "...implications of greater German consciousness of being German..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 15 Fr | Major | Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Königswinter Conference 1985: 21-23 March") [MT reluctant message of support] [declassified Dec 2014] |