The series is not in chronological order, papers have been kept in the order that they were filed by Stonehaven. The series contains covering letters from L.S. Amery to the Governor-General and Prime Minister of Australia which accompanied printed documents of the Committee of Imperial Defence and its various sub-committees. The papers include memoranda, reports, and minutes relating to various aspects of defence including reduction and limitation of armaments, coastal defence, general principles of Imperial defence, military legislation in France, and British defence policy and its repercussions on Singapore, China and Japan.

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Component identifier:
Item 1-152
Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection was donated to the Library by the Rt. Hon. The Viscount Stonehaven in 1968. Further papers were added in 1999 and 2002.

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Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2266115).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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