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US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: report on field test 15 'Exercise First Look' relating to inspection of ground and general purpose air forces in a specified area. The test exercise was held in Southern England Mar-Oct 1968.

Documents on Disarmament, 1945- 1982, is a themed microfilm collection including documents on arms control and disarmament developments, 1945-1982. Subjects include relations with the US Atomic Energy Commission; proposed prohibition requirements for the production of biological and chemical weapons; bilateral talks between the Soviet Union and the United States, including the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (START); US negotiations with aligned and non-aligned states; Commission on Security and Co- operation in Europe (CSCE) arms control talks; negotiations with UN organisations including the Ad Hoc Group on Disarmament and Development, the Commission for Conventional Armaments, the Disarmament Commission, international Atomic Energy Agency, and the Security Council, 1945-1982.

US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency annual report for 1973, 93d Congress 2nd session, House Document No 93-239, published by US Government printing office, Washington.

Microfilm collection containing copies of meeting minutes of the major conferences of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 1941-1945. Meeting minutes include those for the conference held at Washington, DC, codenamed ARCADIA, at which Anglo-American planners first formed a combined strategy for the prosecution of the war, 22 Dec 1941-14 Jan 1942; the conference at Casablanca, Morocco, codenamed SYMBOL, during which the Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS) first discussed the policies of German unconditional surrender, the Combined Bomber Offensive from Great Britain against Germany and the establishment of the French National Committee for Liberation, 14-24 Jan 1943; the Allied conference held at Washington, DC, codenamed TRIDENT, at which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Prime Minister Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS)discussed the decision to delay the invasion of France until May 1944, the Italian surrender, and the Battle of the Atlantic, 11-25 May 1943; the Allied conference at Quebec City, Canada, codenamed QUADRANT, at which the Allies endorsed a plan for the invasion of the Normandy coast in France, formed a new theatre of war, South-East Asia Command, with Acting Adm Lord Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten as Supreme Allied Commander, and regulated the procedures for co-operation between Great Britain and the US regarding the development and production of the atomic bomb, 12-24 Aug 1943; the Allied conferences at Cairo, Egypt, codenamed SEXTANT, at which the Allies discussed combined operations in South-East Asia with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese forces, 22-26 Nov and 2-7 Dec 1943; the Allied conference at Teheran, Iran, codenamed EUREKA, during which the Allies first co-ordinated future strategy with Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, including plans to coincide military operations against Germany in France and the Soviet Union in May 1944, 28-30 Nov 1943; the conference at Quebec City, Canada, codenamed OCTAGON, at which the Allies discussed the post-war division of Germany and a plan for its de-industrialisation, 12-16 Sep 1944; the conferences at Malta and Yalta, Soviet Union, codenamed ARGONAUT, at which the Allies discussed the division of post-war Germany, the occupation of Germany and Austria, Soviet involvement in the war against Japan, and the future government and frontiers of Poland, 30 Jan-9 Feb 1945; the conference at Potsdam, Germany, codenamed TERMINAL, during which surrender terms for Japan were discussed, the boundaries and peace terms for Europe were determined and Poland's government and frontiers were debated, 16 Jul-2 Aug 1945. Conference minutes include references to Allied production and assignment of war materials; British and US merchant vessel losses; US policy concerning assignments of Lend-Lease military aircraft, naval vessels and munitions to Great Britain; Allied petroleum supplies; propaganda and unconventional warfare; war crimes and prisoners of war; operational reports concerning the planning and conduct of Allied offensive operations in Europe, including the invasion of North Africa, codenamed Operation TORCH, Nov 1942; the invasion of Sicily, Italy, codenamed Operation HUSKY, Jul 1943; the US preparation for the invasion of Europe, codenamed Operation BOLERO; and the Allied invasion of Europe, codenamed Operation OVERLORD, Jun 1944; operational reports concerning the Japanese war economy; Japanese Imperial Army logistical capabilities; locations and strengths of Japanese forces in the Pacific; British participation in long range bombing of Japan; Allied operational efforts in Burma, India, Malaya, and the Philippines; Soviet claims on the Sakhalin and Kuril islands; the co-ordination of Allied strategic plans for the defeat and occupation of Japan, 1943-1944; Soviet military action to facilitate Operation OVERLORD; liaison between Allied theatre commanders and the Soviet Army; Soviet capabilities with reference to the Far East; US Lend-Lease requirements for the Soviet Union; and estimates of Soviet post-war capabilities and intentions, 1943-1945.

Edition of War Neuroses in North Africa, a study prepared for the US Air Surgeon's Office, US Army Air Forces, by Lt Col Roy R Grinker, US Army Air Forces, and Capt John P Spiegel, US Army Air Forces, Sep 1943, relating to US Army and Army Air Forces neuropsychiatric casualties encountered by medical officers during World War Two generally and the Tunisian Campaign, Jan-May 1943, specifically

Mrs Ursula Harvey Robinson (née Ursula Bloom): correspondence with Liddell Hart

Ursula Jeane: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Paper, AIR-2, by Lt Col Sir Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, circulating paper for approval of Committee, on same subject as AIR-1, and approved by War Committee at meeting held on 1916 Mar 10. Annotated [by secretariat] Printed 2 pp

Blank postcards of the Lake District, the Cerne Abbas Giant, a ski resort in Switzerland, Blue John Cavern in Castleton, Scotland, the Isle of Skye, Lulworth, a Russian ship 'Alexey Rykoff', portrait medallion of Count Michael Karolyi and detail of carving in Lincoln Cathedral. 1 file

Untitled paper: NATO and the Warsaw Pact-threat.

Untitled draft article by Tom Wintringham for the Picture Post on the Auxiliary Fire Service. 1 item

Ninth and Final Financial Report of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration for the entire period of operation, 9 November 1943 to 31 March 1949', Washington DC, USA. 97pp

Report of the Director General to the Council for the period 1 July 1947 to 31 December 1947 and summary of operations 9 November 1943 to 31 December 1947', United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Washington DC, USA. 370pp

Loose-leaf binder entitled 'UNRRA basic field manual': reference manual for official policy and procedure for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration personnel. 1 binder

Kirby Congdon, essays and work in non-published format: typescript carbon of essay 'A look back, a look away'; typescript carbon of essay 'How to succeed in poetry without really trying', 1964; typescript carbon of essay on 'Lowell Nesbitt'; typescript carbon of essay 'Poetry in New York: the 'war' of independence'; typescript carbon of essay 'The mimeograph revolution', 1964; typescript carbon of essay 'The final symbol', a review of Ernest Hemingway's A moveable feast (1964, 1965), posted by Congdon in 1968, with brief covering note; typescript note [1966], with copies of correspondence relating to unsuccessful bid for grant from Ingram Merrill Foundation, and photocopy of short commentary by Margaret Guiton on Congdon's work with fables; with photocopy of typescript prose work 'Fables after Krylov and Aesop', photocopy of typescript of one-act play 'Here I am!' and photocopy of typescript of one-act play 'The gravy train'; photocopy of untitled set of new fables by Congdon, with brief covering note from the author, 5 Sep 1966, and photocopy of typescript of short prose pieces titled 'Dream-work'

Col R. Macleod. A secret service agent in South-West Africa. Ironside's story as told me and from notes he left behind. Duplicated. 61 pp

Unpublished poems and rough notes.