Details

Subject(s)

• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Politics and government [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) ; FO371-171547. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-171547

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1961-1966: Module 2
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of correspondence covering visits to the U.K. by tourists and conference delegates from the Soviet bloc. The correspondence covers a Parliamentary Question on tourism to Britain from the Soviet Union, amid claims that the number of Soviet citizens visiting Britain has fallen due to their country's shortage of sterling -- and discussion of the need for the British government to make arrangements for the provision of currency exchange with the Soviet Union. Further commentary includes a request for assistance in the issuing of visas to Polish, Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, and Bulgarian delegates to an Esperanto Congress in Stoke-on-Trent.

Notes

• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module II.
• File date: 1963.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1993.

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