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Text of speech by Hamilton to the Glasgow City Business Club, Glasgow, on the deserving case of unemployed ex-servicemen. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the Fleet Street British Legion, London, urging Jews not to interfere with German intentions in the Saar. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at Fife Gallipoli Club, St Andrews, Fife, warning against the commemoration of 'Gallipoli Day' being merged with 'Anzac Day' 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a rally of the Northern District of London British Legion and North London Legion of Frontiersmen, Edmonton, London, requesting they support the visit of British Legion National Chairman Maj Francis William Crewe Fetherstone-Godley to Germany. 1p

Text of speech by Hamilton on opening the British Legion headquarters, Edmonton, London, criticising those who wished to dispense with Armistice Day commemorations. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton on the occasion of his being made an Honorary Life Member of the Edinburgh University Union, giving an account of the adventures of Dr Charles Martin [also known as Warqenah Eshete], Ethiopian Ambassador to Great Britain, as a baby. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the Edinburgh City Business Club, on the unsuccessful proceedings of the British Legion to persuade the Government to construct the Forth-Clyde canal in 1922-1923. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the British Legion, Dunbar, Haddington, on his recent visit to Adolf Hitler, and his plea that British people should not provoke Germans into a war. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the City Business Club, Glasgow, to inaugurate Poppy Day. 4pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the Cheshunt and Waltham Cross British Legion, Hertfordshire, on his admiration of the Sudeten Germans. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the last speech day at Cheam School old school premises, on his early schooldays at Cheam. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the Cambuslang British Legion, Glasgow, Scotland, praising Hitler's work for German university students, and criticizing British citizens who had either stated they would refuse to fight in a future war or who denounced foreign dictators. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the Cambridge University Union, opposing the motion, 'That this House believing world peace to be practical politics, calls for the abolition of military training in schools of this country'. 11pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the dinner of the British Legion Scotland headquarters, Edinburgh, on the role of FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, in the constitution of the Field Force Canteen Funds of the Second Boer War, as a predecessor of the United Services Fund after World War One. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at the opening of the British Legion Headquarters, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, recalling his meeting William Thomson, Chairman of Lanarkshire County Council, in 1900; Hamilton's proposal that British Legion Scotland members have a thistle carved on their tombstones in memory of their services to others. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to 60 blind men at Blenheim House, North Berwick, Haddington, disagreeing with remarks in the press calling for Germany to be outlawed. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton to the British Legion, Balham and Clapham, London, on the presentation of a portrait and watch to Mr Peet, the standard bearer. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton on Hamilton's inspection of 1 Bn Gordons Highlanders, Aldershot, Hampshire, on his joining 1 Bn in 1884 prior to the the First Sudan Expedition; the 'gaiety' of the Gordons. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a civic reception, Ayr, Scotland, for the Earl Haig Fund Appeal, on tariff reform and ex-service unemployment. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton opening the fete of the Women Students in aid of the University Settlement, Edinburgh. 3pp