Overseas visits, 1943-1971

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Series 8

Content Summary:

There are 15 boxes containing correspondence concerned with organizing and moving the Prime Minister and his party on overseas tours between 1943-1971. Even on board ship, Hazel Craig, Menzies' Private Secretary, set up office in a spare cabin and continued her duties dealing with incoming and outgoing cables, radio messages, official briefings, letters of thanks, itineraries, as well as receiving and issuinginvitations for social occasions on board ship.

Some highlights of this series are details of the trip to London in the Arcadia, along with the Australian Victoria Cross winners for commemoration ceremonies, and their signed letter of thanks to the Australian Government for the "generous assistance" to members.

There are papers relating to Menzies' official visits to Malta, Vienna and South Africa, and folders of press cuttings, menus, souvenirs and pamphlets. There is also a folder of correspondence on the conferring of the Order of the Thistle, for which Menzies journeyed to Scotland in 1963.

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Politics and government

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