A file of reports, memoranda, and correspondence generated by the Permanent Under-Secretary's Committee (PUSC) in 1949. Subjects discussed at these meetings include the situation in Germany, including German morale during the Berlin airlift; the progress of attempts at European integration and economic union; the military independence of Western Europe; a union of the Commonwealth and Western Europe as an alternative superpower to America and the Soviets; potential diplomatic pacts in the Mediterranean and the Middle East; the spread of communism in Asia; future British relations with the Soviet Union; economic and social developments in the Middle East; British policy in Asia; the possibility of the reunification of Germany; and the military, political, and economic benefits and dangers of a channel tunnel.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- Abyssinia Afghanistan Albania Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Burma Canada Ceylon China Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark Egypt England Ethiopia Finland Formosa France Germany Gold Coast Great Britain Greece Guinea Holland Hungary Iceland India Indochina Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Japan Korea Kuwait Lebanon Luxembourg Malaya Malta Mesopotamia Micronesia Mongolia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Northern Rhodesia Norway Ottoman Empire Pakistan Palestine Persia Philippines Poland Portugal Rhodesia Romania Russia Russian Empire Saudi Arabia Siam South Africa South Korea Soviet Union Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Transjordan Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States of America Yemen Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/577/2
- Document Types
- Report Memorandum Correspondence
- File Reference
- FO 1093/577
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0577.002
- Keywords
- Western Bloc Occupied Germany Berlin Airlift German Morale Economy Politics Anglo-commonwealth Relations Soviet Foreign Policy Alliances Communism Anglo-american Relations Security Arab World Economic Intelligence Indian Government Foreign Policy Anglo-soviet Relations Defence Economic Union
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Commonwealth Relations Office Foreign Office Joint Planning Staff League of Nations Ministry of Defence North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Permanent Under-Secretary's Committee Services Liaison Department South-East Asia Command United Nations Permanent Under-Secretary's Department
- Pages
- 320
- Persons Discussed
- Ernest Bevin Norman Brook Harold Caccia Alexander Cadogan Eyre Crowe Hugh Dalton William Hayter Adolf Hitler Gladwyn Jebb Ivone Kirkpatrick Ronald Lindsay Ramsay MacDonald Joachim von Ribbentrop Orme Sargent Josef Stalin William Strang
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- International Relations
