Description:

Royal Institute of International Affairs, Far East Department records: British Policy in the Far East and S. E. Asia [Hansard]

Research papers compiled by the Far East Department of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), comprising copies of statements and speeches made in Parliament on British Policy in the Far East and S. E. Asia

Date(s) of creation:	1940-1948
Level:	Collection
Format:	Archive

Reference number:

MS 186387

Summary:

Main author:

Royal Institute of International Affairs

Other authors:

Royal Institute of International Affairs; Far East Department

Extent:

1 box

Admin history:

The Royal Institute of International Affairs (also known as Chatham House) is an independent research and membership organisation working to promote the understanding of key international issues. The Institute promotes debate and research through meetings, conferences and publications. The British Institute of International Affairs (1920-1926), emerged out of 1919 Paris Peace Conference, along with its sister organisation, the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. The Institute was renamed as the Royal Institute of International Affairs ... View more

Acquisition:

Donated to SOAS Library in 1964.

Access status:

Open

Language:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Related material:

Part of a collection of records donated to SOAS Library by the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Comprises: research records compiled by the Far East Department of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House). The records include embassy handouts, conference Records, correspondence, reports and speeches, covering the period 1920-1968. They address political and economic issues in states in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania; as well as United States and British government policies in these regions. Material have been grouped according to subject matter: China, political (1920-1963); China, economic (1937-1953); India, political (1940-1962); India, economic (1940-1957); Ceylon [Sri Lanka] (1945-1959); Pakistan (1949-1959); Malaya [Malaysia], political (1940-1962); Malaya [Malaysia], economic (1945-1954); Japan, economic (1946-1959); Japan, political (1929-1961); Korea (1938-1961); Philippines, political (1945-1960); Economic Development, Far East and S. E. Asia (1949-1958); North Borneo; Brunei; Sarawak; Labuan; Fiji; Gilbert and Ellice Islands; Guam; Samoa; General (1936-1968); Indonesia, political (1939-1953); Indonesia, economic (1935-1959); Formosa [Taiwan]; (1946-1960); Thailand (1948-1960); Kashmir (1946-1962); Burma (1943-1960); Indo-China, general (1952-1961); Indo-China/Vietnam, political (1940-1956); US policy in the Far East (1938-1951); and British Policy in the Far East and South East Asia (1943-1950). [MS 186361; MS 186362; MS 186363; MS 186364; MS 186365; MS 186366; MS 186367; MS 186368; MS 186370; MS 186372; MS 186373; MS 186374; MS 186375; MS 186376; MS 186377; MS 186378; MS 186379; MS 186380; MS 186381; MS 186382; MS 186383; MS 186384; MS 186385; MS 186386; MS 186387] Associated Material held elsewhere: The archives (1920-) of the Royal Institute of International Affairs are kept at Chatham House [ref. RIIA]. They consist of records of Royal Institute from its foundation, including correspondence and texts of off-the-record meetings held at the Institute; unpublished material from research and meetings department of the Institute. There is a 30 year closure on all the archives at Chatham House; archives dealing with purely internal Royal Institute affairs are closed indefinitely. The Records of Lionel Curtis (1906-1960) held at Oxford University contain Records relating to the Royal Institute of International Affairs: Bodleian Library, Department of Western Manuscripts [ref. MSS Curtis; Eng hist b 224, c 776-877]; Miscellaneous Records including some records of the Foreign Research and Press Service (1936-1961) held at Imperial War Museum Department of Documents [ref. Webster]; Minutes and Records of the Committee on Reconstruction (1945) held at Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre [ref. 2/4/12]; Records (c 1920-1994) held at the Royal Institute of International Affairs [ref. Cook & Waller, Sources in contemporary British history, vol 1, 1994].

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