28 April 2003 releases

Official Committee on the Middle East.

Palestine: Committee of Enquiry into Disturbances of Aug 1929: Sir Walter Shaw's chairman's copy of evidence taken in camera.

Future of atomic weapons programme.

Evacuation contingency plans for Aden, after warning about attacks on Shell oil company.

Deals with the difficulties of protecting British subjects in Africa if serious unrest arose.

The Foreign Secretary, Michael Stewart, meets the Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs in New York and Britain's Minister of State prepares to call on King Hussein. Briefing on arms sales to Jordan and discussion of the chance of a political settlement with Israel.

- Retiring Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson exchange views on the Commonwealth, the EEC, the US balance of payments deficit, the Vietnam War, the Middle East, Greece and constitutional arrangements in Canada.

- Objections by the Irish Republic.

The Soviet Union's apparent plan to use fishing boats in Ghana to rescue fallen astronauts.

Deals with suggested UN involvement in Northern Ireland. Talks about possibility of Irish troops moving into Ulster.

Discussions on IRA threat to British Ambassador to Ireland.

- Discusses the formation of a list stopping Rhodesian athletes from entering the UK.

Evasion of sanctions: Tobacco quotas in Rhodesia.

Prime Ministers meeting, January 1969.

includes possibility of Sir Hugh Beadle

Sir Hugh Beadle, Chief Justice in Rhodesia since 1961, stayed on in his post after Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence in 1965. He became a privy counsellor in 1964.

- Japan: Political Departments: General correspondence from 1906.

Personnel files (PF series) - Edwin Hardy Amies, born 17.7.1909.

Letter from Dr. Subasic former Prime Minister of the Yugoslav Government in exile, to the Prime Minister requesting interview to discuss the situation in Yugoslavia. Described by the Foreign Office as "rather pathetic and embarrassing".

UK position; correspondence and discussions with President Nixon and others.

The nine re-inserted extracts are personal messages between the President and the Prime Minister. British government's concern over not being informed about renewed US bombing of Vietnam. Includes draft US proposals for ending of war.

An analysis of the sterling crisis of 1964-65.

- Army of Ireland: Administrative and Easter Rising Records Courts of inquiry in lieu of inquest. Inquiries into suspected IRA killings of alleged spies.