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Text of speech by Hamilton to the dinner of the British Legion, Savoy Hotel, London, in honour of Hamilton's 80th birthday, on the early days of the Legion. 5pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a British Legion Scotland Concert, Glasgow, urging friendship with France, Germany and Italy. 2pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a picnic for the British Legion club for the unemployed of Edinburgh, on the work of Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, for the unemployed in Scotland; a satirical newspaper article which had proposed Hamilton as a candidate for a British dictator. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at British Legion Christmas party, Services Rendered Club, Wandsworth, London, on his presenting prizes to football pool winners; the Japanese threat to Singapore and Hong Kong. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a luncheon of the British Empire Service league, London, proposing the health of Maj Gen Hon Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, retiring High Commissioner for Australia in Great Britain. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton at a parade of veterans of 29 Div, Horse Guards Parade, London, on FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, and Kitchener's attitude to generals who demanded reinforcements. 3pp

Text of speech by Hamilton as Inspecting Officer, at the annual rally of the Glasgow County Boy Scouts. 2pp

Text of vote of thanks by Hamilton to (John Randolph) Shane Leslie for a reading of Leslie's poem 'Epic of Jutland', at Bouverie House, London. 3pp

Text of a speech by Liddell Hart opening a fete at Holy Trinity Church, Wolverton, in aid of the restoration of its bells, with an advert for the fete in The Wolverton Express 17 Jul 1951

Speech opening a British Legion fete at Newport Pagnell, concerning the experience of Britain's isolation, 1940-1941

Transcript of an address on the outlawing of segregation by the United States Supreme Court by William J Simmons, Administrator of the Citizens' Councils of Mississippi before the Farmers-Merchants annual banquet. 1 item

Text of the David Davies Memorial Lecture, given by Sir Michael Quinlan on 'Nuclear Tests in the Sub-continent: Prospects and Significance for the World', regarding nuclear testing in India and Pakistan. 9pp.

Founder's day address at Mount Allison University, Sackville, Canada, by Roy Fraser, 'This is our heritage'. 1 item

Text of after dinner speech by Robertson on the occasion of the visit of the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Secretary of State for War, Gen Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Lt Gen Sir George Mark Watson Macdonough, Adjutant General to the Forces, to the BAOR (British Army of the Rhine). 4pp.

Text of speech by Robertson to the Trade Union Conference, on the problem of harmonising the manpower needs of the Army and industry in Great Britain. 6pp.

Text of speech by Robertson on Russia's military position in central Asia at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, providing an assessment of the threat posed to Great Britain in the event of war with Germany. 28pp.

Aims for Freedom and Enterprise (AIMS): Remarks by the Hon Robert Strausz-Hupe, US permanent representation to NATO at a 'Freedom Enterprise Day' luncheon.

Text of speech by Pyman entitled 'Introduction to series of talks by Institute of Advanced Motorists Ltd'. With annotated copy. Typescript, 4pp

Text of an address by Pyman to senior officers about the Fighting Vehicles Division of the Ministry of Supply describing the process of developing a vehicle. Typescript, 3pp

Text of speech by Pyman to 23 Armoured Bde, Territorial Army relating to the recent re-organisation of the Territorial Army and the 23 Armoured Bde's role in World War Two. Typescript and manuscript, 8pp