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Text of speech by Hamilton proposing the toast of the South African War Veterans' Association, at their second annual dinner, London. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the fourth annual dinner of the 'Jocks' (the Scottish Regimental Association of Yorkshire), Leeds Town hall, Yorkshire, on the problems of nationalism in Europe; his proposals that an air pact be made to guarantee Austria's borders and deny use of the air to continental powers. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, on his reminiscences on the Hussars prior to World War One; on his dismissal of Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, war correspondent, from the Gallipoli peninsula, and Hamilton's attempts to invite Harry Lawson Webster Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham, then Chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, to come to Gallipoli. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the Metropolitan Area British Legion, London, advocating Great Britain ally herself with other European states rather than the USA. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual halloween dinner of the London Scottish (the Gordon Highlanders), toasting the exploits of the London Scottish during the Second Boer War and World War One. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the 35th annual dinner of the City Imperial Volunteers (CIV), London, with advice to the Abyssinians as to their method of fighting the Italians; his tribute to the CIV at the battle of Doornkop, Second Boer War, 29 May 1900. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the City Imperial Volunteers, Harrods, London, paying tribute to their service at the battle of Doornkop, Second Boer War, 29 May 1900. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the Rhodes' Scholars, Oxford, on Hamilton's meetings with Cecil (John) Rhodes in 1877-1878, and in South Africa in 1900; Rhodes' vision of Africa and its future. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the Glasgow and Lanarkshire Association of London, supporting the draft disarmament convention submitted by Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald MP, Prime Minister, to the Geneva Disarmament Conference. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner, Glasgow and Lanarkshire Association of London, replying to the toast of the chairman. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the Glasgow and Lanarkshire Association of London. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the Fleet Street British Legion, London, advocating the eating of herrings to help fishermen. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of the Fleet Street British Legion, London, toasting the health of Percy Rudd, chairman. 1p

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of 52 (Lowland) Division, Edinburgh, on the necessity of an air pact between Great Britain and Germany; his speculation as to how FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome and German FM Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg would have settled the same. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of 51 (Highland) Div, Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire, paying tribute to Maj Gen Sir Richard Bannatine-Allason; Hamilton's criticism of the development of British commitments to fight alongside the French prior to World War One; the difficulties encountered by the 4 (Highland) Mountain Artillery Bde in Gallipoli. 8pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of 42 (East Lancashire) Div, Manchester, Lancashire, on the merits of the division and its Territorial spirit. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of 42 (East Lancashire) Div, Manchester, Lancashire, on the danger of war caused by British insults to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Ambassador. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of 42 (East Lancashire) Div, Manchester, Lancashire, on the sale by the Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law MP of the Steam Ship RIVER CLYDE to Spain, and attempts to buy her back; the need for a cabinet post of Minister of Defence, and its implications for the Territorial Army. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner of 42 (East Lancashire) Div, Manchester, Lancashire, on his introducing Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, Secretary of State for War, to Militia and Volunteer Colonels at Tidworth House, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, in 1907; the dangers of Government underfunding of the Territorial Army, and its required mechanisation. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the annual dinner, 42 (East Lancashire) Div, Manchester, Lancashire, warning against British intervention in the First Battle of Shanghai, China, 1932; the reticence of FM Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, to storm a city, as exemplified by Delhi, India, in 1857, Charasia, Afghanistan, in 1879 and Pretoria, Transvaal, in 1900. 3pp