1969

Speaker:

Sir Edward Smeeton

Director, Society of British Aerospace Companies

On:

‘European Space Authority’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Earl of Bessborough

  1969

Speaker:

Mr Alistair Gillespie, Canadian M.P. and Panel of N.A.T.O. Parliamentarians

Chairman of House of Commons Meeting:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

  1969

Speaker:

Professor Zbigniew Brezezinski

Columbia University, U.S.A.

On:

‘Problems of a European Security System’

Chairman of House of Commons Meeting:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

  1969

Speaker:

H.E. Mr Nuri Birgi

Turkish Ambassador to N.A.T.O.

On:

‘Turkey's Role in Europe, the Middle East and N.A.T.O.’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

  1969

Speaker:

Sir Donald Hobson, KCMG

Recent H.M. Charge d'Affaires, Peking

On:

‘European Attitudes to the Far East’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Earl of Selkirk, Kt, GCMG, GBE, AFC, QC

  1969

Speakers:

Mr John Marsh, British Institute of Management, and Monsieur Philippe Denis

British Institute of Management

On:

‘European Managerial Problems’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Lord Layton

  1969

Speakers:

M. Van Der Stoel, Dutch Socialist MP, and M. Per Federspiel, Danish Liberal MP, and Mr Jean De Broglie, French MP, and Dr Schultz, German MP

On:

‘New Proposals for Europe’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

  1969

Speaker:

On:

‘Earl Mountbatten's Film on United World Colleges’

  1969

Speaker:

The Rt. Hon. Fred Mulley, MP

Minister of State, Ministry of Defence

On:

‘Britain's Role in Europe and The Alliance in the 1970s’

Chairman of House of Commons Meeting:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

  1969

1968

Speaker:

Dr G. Borg Olivier

Prime Minister of Malta

On:

‘Malta's Role in N.A.T.O.’

Chairman of House of Commons Meeting:

Mr Gilbert Longden, MP

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

Mr Gilbert Longden, MP

  1968

Speakers:

The Hon. Maxwell Stamp and Sir Michael Wright, KCMG and Mr Lionel Gelber

On:

‘Free Trade Area Options’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Lord Layton

  1968

Speaker:

Madame Helen Vlachou

Greek Publisher and Editor

On:

‘Greece Today’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Lord Layton

  1968

Speakers:

Mr Peter Isola

Deputy Chief Minister, Gibraltar and

Mrs Angela Smith

On:

‘Constitutional Problems of Gibraltar’

Chairman of House of Commons Meeting:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

 February 1968

Speaker:

Sir John Coulson, KCMG

Secretary-General of E.F.T.A.

On:

‘The Future of E.F.T.A.’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Lord Layton

The Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street

  1968

Speaker:

Mr David Barran

Chairman Royal Dutch/Shell Group

On:

‘North Sea Gas Prospects’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Lord Layton

  1968

Speaker:

Senator Jacob Javits

US Republican Senator

On:

‘The Future of N.A.T.O. and the Atlantic Alliance’

Chairman of House of Commons Meeting:

Mr Douglas Dodds-Parker, MP

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

Mr Douglas Dodds-Parker, MP

  1968

Speakers:

Admiral Luciano Sotgiu

Italian Commander, Allied Naval Forces, Southern Europe and Mr Arthur Hockaday, Assistant Secretary-General, N.A.T.O.

On:

‘Mediterranean Strategic and Political Problems’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

  1968

Speaker:

Dr. Franz Josef Strauss

Finance Minister, Federal German Republic

On:

‘German View of a United Europe’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

Sir Frank Roberts, GCMG, GCVO

  1968

1967

Speakers:

The Rt. Hon. Frederick Mulley, MP and The Rt. Hon. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, KT, MP, and The Rt. Hon. Lord Gladwyn, GCMG, GCVO

On:

‘The Future of the Council of Europe’

MEETING TO CELEBRATE 'EUROPE DAY'

Chairman of House of Commons Meeting:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

House of Commons

May  1967

Speaker:

Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger

Federal Chancellor, Republic of German

On:

‘Germany in Relation to Europe and the Atlantic Alliance’

Chairman of House of Lords Meeting:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

The Royal Gallery, House of Lords

  1967

Speakers:

Sir Basil Smallpiece, Chairman, Atlantic Container Line and Holland-America Line and Mr Erik Wijik, Chairman, Swedish-American Line, and Mr Fred Olsen, Chairman, Fred Olsen Ltd, Norway

On:

‘European Container Shipping’

Chairman of House of Commons Meeting:

The Lord Layton

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Lord Layton

  1967

Speaker:

Monsieur Paul-Henri Spaak

Secretary-General, N.A.T.O.

On:

‘The Atlantic Community’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Lord Layton

  1967

Speakers:

The Rt. Hon. Lord Shawcross, QC (on British Law) and Mr Pieter Sanders (on Rotterdam-Continental Law) and Mr Richard Moore (on Paris-American Law)

On:

‘Harmonisation of British, Continental and American Law’

Chairman of House of Commons Meeting:

The Lord Layton

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

Professor Arthur Goodhart, KBE, QC, FBA

  1967

Speaker:

Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, USN

On:

‘Naval Atlantic Co-operation’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

Admiral Sir William Davis, GCB, DSO

  1967

Speaker:

Professor H. G. Johnson, MA, PhD, LLD

On:

‘Proposals for a North Atlantic Free Trade Area’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt Hon Lord Layton

  1967

Speaker:

Mr Tony Rollman

On:

‘Problems of the European Coal and Steel Community’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt Hon Lord Layton

  1967

1966

TOUR OF DELEGATION LED BY HON DIRECTOR THROUGH AUSTRIA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, GERMANY, HUNGARY AND POLAND

  1966

Speaker:

Sir John Coulson, KCMG

On:

‘The Future of E.F.T.A.’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt Hon Lord Layton

  1966

Speaker:

Dr Halvard Lange

Former Norwegian Foreign Minister

On:

‘Problems Affecting the Atlantic Alliance’

House of Commons only

  1966

Speakers:

Dr Halvard Lange and the Hon. Wayne Hays (USA) and Mr Walter Leisler Kiep (Germany) and Senator Georges Portmann (France)

On:

‘The Future of N.A.T.O. and the Atlantic Alliance’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey De Freitas, KCMG, QC

  1966

Speaker:

Eastern and Western Journalists

On:

‘Relations Between Eastern and Western Europe’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

Sir Eric Berthoud, KCMG

  1966

Speaker:

Mr Eric Wynham White

On:

‘Some Reflections on the Geneva Trade Negotiations’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt Hon Lord Layton

  1966

Speaker:

The Hon. James A. Roberts

On:

‘The North Atlantic Alliance Today’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt Hon Lord Layton

  1966

Speaker:

H.E. The Hon. Philip Trezise

United States Ambassador to O.E.C.D. in Paris

On:

‘American's Trade Policies’

Chairman of Dinner-Discussion:

The Rt Hon Lord Layton

  1966

Speaker:

Mr Sean McBride, SC

Secretary-General, International Commission of Jurists

On:

‘The Rule of Law in International Affairs’

  1966

Speaker:

Herr Gisbert Poensgen

Head of Division, Directorate-General of Overseas Development

On:

‘Relations Between the E.E.C. and African Commonwealth Countries’

  1966

Speaker:

Dr E. H. Van Der Beugel, KCMG

Secretary-General of the Bilderberg Group

On:

‘Atlantic Partnership’

  1966

Speaker:

Signor Manlio Brosio

Secretary-General of N.A.T.O.

On:

‘Why N.A.T.O. Must Survive’

  1966

Speaker:

Mr Graham Spry

Agent-General for Saskatchewan

On:

‘French Canada and Canadian Federation’

  1966

1965

DELEGATION TO N.A.T.O. AND O.E.C.D. IN PARIS AND TO COUNCIL OF EUROPE, STRASBERG

  1965

Speaker:

Mr Vladimir Velebit

Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

On:

‘Economic Relations Between Western and Eastern Europe’

  1965

Speaker:

Baron Snoy et d'Oppeurs

Head, Belgian Delegation during Negotiations of the Rome Treaty

On:

‘The Crisis in the European Economic Community’

  1965

Speaker:

Dr H. Golsong

Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights

On:

‘The European Convention of Human Rights’

  1965

Speaker:

Mr William Clark (and other Speakers)

Director, Overseas Development Institute

On:

‘Western Economic Policies towards Africa’

  1965

Speakers:

The Rt. Hon. Patrick Gordon Walker, PC (and other Speakers)

On:

‘Western Policies Towards South and East Asia’

  1965

Speaker:

Professor Zbigniew Brezezinski

Director of Research, Columbia University

On:

‘America's Role in Europe’

  1965

Speaker:

Monsieur Pierre Uri

Director of Studies, Atlantic Institute, Paris

On:

‘Gold Standard or a European Currency’

  1965

Speaker:

Mr Per Markussen

President, The Danish Atlantic Association

On:

‘Denmark and the Atlantic Alliance’

  1965

Speaker:

Professor Hugh Steon-Watson

Professor of Russian History, university of London

On:

‘Western Policies Towards Eastern Europe and Russia’

  1965

Speaker:

On:

‘Problems of European Integration and the Atlantic Committee’

  1965

Speakers:

The Rt. Hon Lord Kennet, British N.A.T.O. Parliamentarian, Monsieur Lucien Radoux, Belgian N.A.T.O. Parliamentarian and Major-General Frederich Berendsen, Former German N.A.T.O. Parliamentarian, and Senator Paolo Vitorelli, Italian N.A.T.O. Parliamentarian

On:

‘The Control of Nuclear Weapons’

Grand Committee Room, House of Commons

  1965

1964

Speaker:

Mr Peter Smithers

Secretary-General, Council of Europe

On:

‘The Council of Europe’

  1964

Speaker:

Professor Don Jose Maria Naharro

Head of Law Department, Madrid University

On:

‘Economic Developments in Spain’

  1964

Speaker:

H.E. Senor Don Victor Santa Cruz

The Ambassador of Chile

On:

‘Latin-America European Relations’

  1964

Speaker:

Admiral H. Page Smith

Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic

On:

‘The Sea Defence of N.A.T.O.’

  1964

Speakers:

Senator Helmut Schmidt, Hamburg Senate, and Mr Robert H. Eastabrook, Chief Correspondent, Washington Post, and Monsieur Andre Fontaine, Foreign Editor, Le Monde, Paris and Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson, OBE, Military Correspondent, Daily Telegraph

On:

‘Are Changes Needed in N.A.T.O.?’

  1964

Speakers:

Delegates from the Seven Member Countries to the International E.F.T.A. Action Committee Meeting In London

On:

‘Developments in E.F.T.A.’

  1964

Speakers:

Sir Edward Cohen, KCMG and Monsieur Theodore Hijzen and the Hon. W.T.M. Beale

On:

‘The Kennedy Round in G.A.T.T.’

  1964

1963

DELEGATION TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR AT ZABREB, YUGOSLAVAKIA FOLLOWED BY VISITS TO DUBROVNIK AND BELGRADE

  1963

Speaker:

Monsieur Jacques Van Helmont

Special Adviser to Monsieur Jean Monnet, and Chairman, Action Committee for the Unites States of Europe

On:

‘Problems and Trends in the European Community’

  1963

Speaker:

Monsieur Pierre Uri

Director of Studies, Atlantic Institute, Paris

On:

‘Europe, Britain and the Atlantic’

  1963

Speakers:

Mr Vladimir Ossipov, London Correspondent, Izvestia, and Mr Maximilian Berezowski, Tribuna Ludu, Warsaw, and Mr Vladimir Kucera, Czechoslovak Radio, and Mr Eldon Griffiths, Chief European Correspondent, Newsweek

On:

‘Aftermath of the Test Ban’

  1963

Speaker:

Monsieur Maurice Shumann

President, Foreign Affairs Permanent Committee, French National Assemble

On:

‘Control of Western Strategy’

  1963

Speaker:

Admiral Claude Ricketts, USN

United States Vice-Chief of Naval Operations

On:

‘The Multilateral Force’

  1963

Speaker:

Professor Thorkil Kristensen

Secretary-General, O.E.C.D.

On:

‘Developments in O.E.C.D.’

  1963

Speaker:

Mr Frank Figgures, CMG

Secretary-General, European Free Trade Association

On:

‘E.F.T.A. and its Future’

  1963

Speaker:

Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, KCMG, CB

Permanent United Kingdom Representative, North Altantic Council

On:

‘British Policy in The Atlantic Alliance’

  1963

Speakers:

Mr Robert Allen, Famous Artists Schools, Westport, Connecticut and Dr Henri Brugmans, Rector, College of Europe, Bruges and Mr Robert Blackburn, Director of Studies, Atlantic College and Mr A.D.C. Peterson, OBE, Director of Education, Oxford University

On:

‘European and Atlantic Education’

  1963

Speakers:

H.E. Dr William Fitzjohn, High Commissioner, Sierra Leone, and Mr Dowouna-Hammond, Trade Commissioner, Ghana, and Mr S.O. Seyode, Commercial Attache, Nigeria and Mr W.C. Hawes, Counsellor of Finance and Economics in Rhodesia and Nyasaland

On:

‘African Commonwealth's Views of the Common Market’

  1963

Speakers:

Mr Paul Bareau, Editor, The Statist and Mr Edwin Dale, Financial Representative, New York Times, Paris, and Mr Raymond Davidson, Vice-President, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co and Mr Henry F. Tiarks, J. Henry Schroder Wagg Ltd

On:

‘European and American Monetary Policies’

  1963

Speakers:

Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens, CMG, MC

President, Central and Eastern European Commission, European Movement and The Rt. Hon. Lord St. Osward, MC, Vice-President, Central and Eastern European Commission, European Movement and Mr Kenneth Johnston, CMG, CB

On:

‘Relations with Eastern Europe’

  1963

1962

Speakers:

H. E. The American Ambassador and Mrs David Bruce and H. E. Monsieur de Councel, The French Ambassador

Anglo-Belgium Club, 6 Belgrave Square, SW1

July  1962

Speaker:

H.E. Mr K. B. Lall, Indian Ambassador to Belgium and Mr Iftikhar Ali, Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner and Mr R.C.S. Koelmeyer, Counsellor, Ceylon High Commission

On:

‘Asian Commonwealth and the Common Market’

  1962

Speakers:

Mr Leo D'Erlanger, Chairman, Channel Tunnel Company and Mr Ernest Davies, Editor, Traffic Engineering and Control

On:

‘Channel Links with Europe’

  1962

Speaker:

Mr W. H. Stevens, CB, MSC

Director-General of Ballistic Missiles, Ministry of Aviation

On:

‘European Space Co-operation’

  1962

Speakers:

Mr Paul Phillips, Australian Commerical Adviser and Mr K. C. Durrant, New Zealand Economic Counsellor and Mr Lionel Gelber, Former Personal Assistant to the Canadian Prime Minister

On:

‘Commonwealth Views of the Common Market’

  1962

Speaker:

The Rt. Hon. Lord Crathorne, PC and Mr John Hynd, MP

On:

‘Political Development of Europe’

  1962

Speaker:

Professor Georges Portmann

Vice-President of the French Senate

On:

‘France and N.A.T.O.’

  1962

Speaker:

The Hon. W. T. M. Beale

Minister of Economic Affairs, U.S. Embassy

On:

‘Recent Developments in United States Trade Policy’

  1962

Speakers:

Dr K.E. Eibenschuetz, Austrian Foreign Trade Representative and M. Per-Bertil Kolberg, Counsellor, Swedish Embassy and M. Marcel Heimo, Swiss Counsellor, Economic Affairs

On:

‘Neutral Views of the Common Market’

  1962

1961

DELEGATION TO ATLANTIC TREATY ASSOCIATION ASSEMBLY IN ATHENS, FOLLOWED BY VISIT TO ISRAEL.

  1961

DELEGATION TO THE BRITISH TRADE FAIR IN MOSCOW, FOLLOWED BY VISIT TO LENINGRAD.

  1961

DELEGATION TO ZURICH AND BERNE FOR THE 'EUROPEAN WEEK' IN SWITZERLAND, FOLLOWED BY VISIT TO THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN STRASBERG.

  1961

Speaker:

General Sir Hugh Stockwell, KCB, KBE, DSO

Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

On:

‘Military Aspects of N.A.T.O.’

  1961

Speaker:

Sir Lionel Heald, QC, MP

On:

‘The Question of Sovereignity in the Treaty of Rome’

  1961

Speaker:

Sir Paul Mason, KCMG, KCVO

United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council

On:

‘The Present State of the Atlantic Alliance’

  1961

Speaker:

H.E. The Israeli Ambassador and Professor Norman Bentwich, OBE MC LlD

On:

‘Israel and the West’

  1961

Speakers:

Professor Thorkil Kristensen, Secretary-General, O.E.C.D., and Mr George W. Ball, U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and Mr Anthony Barber, MP, Economic Secretary, Treasury

On:

‘Aid to Developing Countries’

  1961

Speakers:

The Rt. Hon. Reginald Maudling, MP, President of the Board of Trade, and Sir James Hutchison, Bt, President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce

On:

‘East-West Trade’

  1961

Speakers:

The Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson, QC, MP and Mr Robert Mathew, MP

On:

‘Arrangements Necessary for the Accession of the United Kingdom to the Economic Community’

  1961

Speakers:

Mr Anthony Kershaw, MP and Signor Piero Ottone, Correira della Sera, and Monsieur Henri Pierre, Le Monde, and Herr Bent Sally, Berglinshe Tidende and Herr von Globi, Die Welt

On:

‘Reshaping the Atlantic Alliance’

  1961

Speakers:

Sir Howard Robertson, PP, RIBA and Mr Michael Rosenauer, FRIBA, and The Rt. Hon. Lord Bossom of Maidston, FRIBA, JP

On:

‘Nationalism and Internationalism in Architecture’

  1961

Speaker:

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Rt. Hon. Lord Fisher of Lambeth

On:

‘A Visit to the Middle East’

  1961

Speaker:

Professor Thorkil Kristensen

Secretary-General of O.E.C.D.

On:

‘Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’

  1961

Speaker:

Signor Alberico Casardi

Deputy Secretary-General of N.A.T.O.

On:

‘North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’

  1961

Speaker:s

Mr Maurice Zinkin and Mrs Tina Zinkin

On:

‘India's Uncommitted Views of the East-West Conflict’

  1961

1960

Speaker:

Signor I. M. Lombardo

Chairman, Italian Atlantic Committee

DINNER IN HONOUR OF THE ITALIAN ATLANTIC COMMITTEE

Anglo-Belgium Club, 6, Belgrave Square, SW1

November  1960

VISIT TO THE BRITISH FAIR AND EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK.

  1960

DELEGATION TO THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY IN BRUSSELS

  1960

Speakers

The Rt. Hon. Reginald Maudling, MP, President of the Board of Trade, and Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens, CMG, MO, Chairman, United Kingdom Council of the European Movement

On:

‘A Commonwealth-Europe Solution’

  1960

Speaker:

The Rt. Hon. Edward Heath, OBE, MP

Lord Privy Seal

On:

‘European Problems’

  1960

Speakers:

The Rt. Hon. Aubrey Jones, MP and Mr Maurice Edelman, MP and Mr J. B. Scott, Crompton-Parkinson Ltd and Mr Geoffrey Kitchin, Pearl Assurance Company Ltd and the Rt. Hon The Earl of Bessborough

On:

‘Russia As We Saw It’

October  1960

Speaker:

General Sir Richard Gale, GCB, KBE, DSO, MC

Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

On:

‘North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’

  1960

Speaker:

Mr John Tuthill

Director, US Department of Regional European Affairs, Paris

On:

‘American Views on O.E.E.C.’

  1960

Speaker:

Sir Frank Roberts, KCMG

UL Permanent Rpepresentative to the North Atlantic Council

On:

‘The Present Position of N.A.T.O.’

  1960

Speaker:

H.E. The Chilean Ambassador

On:

‘Some South American Developments’

  1960

Speakers

Monsieur Vengroux, Mayor of Calais, and Dr. Paul Rykens, KBE, Unilever Limited, and Professor Dr Rudolf Meimberg, Deutsche Bank and Mr R. Wills, Association of British Chambers of Commerce, and Mr Wilhelm Paues, Swedish Committee for European Integration

On:

‘Industrial Bridgeheads in Europe’

  1960

Speaker:

Sir Paul Gore-Booth, KCMG

Deputy Under-Secretary in charge of Economic Affairs, Foreign Office

On:

‘O.E.E.C. Remodelled’

  1960

Speakers

Mrs Elma Dangerfield, OBE and H.E. The Phillipine Ambassador

On:

‘Asia in Relation to the European-Atlantic Community’

  1960

Speaker:

The Rt. Hon. David Ormsby-Gore, MP

UK Representative at Disarmament Conference, Geneva

On:

‘Disarmament’

                                                                          1960