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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Reference | FCO 82/290 |
| Department/Office | Foreign Office |
| Title | Visits of US Senators and Congressmen to the UK (1973) |
| Description | Visit by Senator J. William Fulbright and Congressman Hayes to the UK to attend the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting. Biography of Fulbright and interview of Fulbright by Michio Nagai, Editorial Writer of the Asahi Shimbun on the maintenance of American troops in Germany and in Europe and the Senator's desire for the withdrawal of US conventional forces from Europe and other overseas commitments. Discussion on Nuclear compensation for Western Europe in the wake of US forces withdrawal from Europe. Report on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and its funding. Report on the Fulbright Scholarship scheme and its 25 anniversary celebrations. Report of visit to UK of Senator Mansfield. Visit of US Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen to the UK to attend the Ariel Foundation meeting on the Middle East. Frelinghuysen is a Republican member of the European sub-Committee of the House of Representatives committee on Foreign Affairs. Visits of Senators McGovern and James Buckley to the UK. A biography of Buckley is included. Buckley met with Sir Thomas Brimelow and made it clear he was concerned there should be no run-down of American commitment to the defence of Europe and no false illusions about the likely success of CSCE and MBFR. Buckley also professed worries about SALT regarding pressure in Congress to reduce R & D expenditure in critical areas. |
| Date | 1973 |
| Collection | The Nixon Years, 1969-1974 |
| Region | Europe |
| Countries | United Kingdom, United States, Germany |
| Places | Britain; Canada; China; East of Suez; Eastern Europe; Europe; France; Germany; Ireland; Israel; Japan; Middle East; Northern Ireland; Pakistan; Russia; Soviet Union; Spain; United Kingdom; United States of America; Vietnam |
| People | Amery, Julian; Brezhnev, Leonid; Brimelow, Thomas; Buckley, James; Cromer, 3rd Earl of; Douglas-Home, Sir Alec; Frelinghuysen, Peter; Greenhill, Sir Denis; Hays, Wayne; Johnson, Lyndon Baines; Kennedy, Edward Moore |
| Topics | Aid; Armed services; British Embassy; CIA (Central Intelligence Agency); Communist; Congress; Defence; Democratic Party; Department of Commerce; Department of State; Detente; East-West relations; Education; Environment; European integration; FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation); foreign policy; Home Office; Inflation; Isolationism; Japanese; Ministry of Defence; Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR); North Atlantic Treaty Association (NATO); Nuclear Weapons; Oil; organisation; Pentagon; Pollution; Protectionist; Republican Party; State Department; The Nine; Trade; Trade Bill; Treasury; troops; Urban Affairs; Watergate; White House; withdrawal; Year of Europe |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
