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MCPP/JS/1/2/1985/4
Title
Simpson Notebooks: Foreign affairs
Date(s)
- 27 June 1985 – 21 October 1985 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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Contents list on the inside front cover reads:
Includes:
(1) Milan summit
(2) Hitler diaries trial ends
(3) Luxembourg
(4) Geoffrey Howe’s [British Foreign Secretary, 1983-1989] visit to Lagos
(5) expulsion of Soviet Diplomats
(6) Bahamas
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Note
(1) The British government expelled 25 Soviet diplomats from London following the defection of high-ranking KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky. Moscow retaliated by expelling 25 British citizens
(2) October - Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Nassau. This was followed by a Royal visit by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip