Details

Subject(s)

• Travel [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Europe, Eastern—Foreign relations—Foreign Office [Browse]
• Foreign Office—Foreign relations—Eastern Europe [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-142683. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-142683

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1953-1960: Module 1
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of correspondence and reports concerning a tour of the Eastern Bloc by Robert Allan, a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament who served as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The documents discuss the organisation of Allan's tour, during which he first visited Helsinki and Copenhagen before crossing the "Iron Curtain" and visiting Prague, Sofia, and Bucharest -- and the view of the Foreign Office regarding the quality of intelligence Allan will be able to obtain in each country. The documents also cover the state of economic relations between Britain and Czechoslovakia -- a note by the British Legation in Sofia on Allan's visit to Bulgaria -- and the internal political situation in each of the countries Allan will be visiting. Other documents include a series of reports presented to Allan before his tour, containing annual summaries of developments in each of Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Denmark, and Finland during 1958.

Notes

• File date: 1959.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1989.

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