Sub-sub-fonds E. - Foreign affairs,

A collection of letters, papers, press-cuttings and memoranda (private and governmental) relating to foreign affairs. The most coherent sections are those relating to institutions and organised groups - the League of Nations Union, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the York Trust Europe Study Group. The remainder of the collection is rather diffuse. There are occasional papers and memoranda on Soviet Russia and China, a collection of confidential material relating to the Hague Conference of 1929 and a larger collection on America and its relationships with Europe, deriving mainly from Thomas Jones' friendship with Professor James T. Shotwell. The collection on Germany, which refers both to the period of Appeasement and to that of hostilities, appears to be a residue. Much other material of a similar character may be found scattered throughout the collection, with particular reference to Germany and the U.S.A. See especially classes A, O, P, Q, S, T, W and Z. Arranged into: Germany, 1 Aug. 1918-Oct. 1939 (E 1); Soviet Russia, 2 Feb. 1918-Oct. 1927, China, 21 Oct. 1927-20 May 1930, and Hague Conference, 13 Feb.-31 Aug. 1929 (E 2); U.S.A., May 1919-17 Dec. 1927 (E 3); U.S.A., 5 Jan. 1928-21 March 1945 (E 4); League of Nations and League of Nations Union, 1917-Dec. 1922 (E 5); League of Nations and League of Nations Union, 23 Jan. 1924-March 1933, British Association for International Understanding, 13 Oct. 1939-12 Dec. 1944, and Federalism and Federal Union, 29 Oct. 1938-21 Nov. 1944 (E 6); Royal Institute of International Affairs, 23 Sept. 1920-1 Oct. 1946 (E 7); York Trust, Europe Study Group, 11 Aug. 1939-13 May 1941 (E 8); and York Trust, Europe Study Group, Memoranda, Jan.-April 1940 (E 9).