Department of External Affairs, 1946-1949

Containers:

Box 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

Component identifier:

Series 11

Content Summary:

Items 1-7986

This series is the largest in the collection and contains general correspondence written while Eggleston was an adviser to the Department (1946-1949), material on the United Nations Trusteeship system, the Japanese Peace Conference (items 566-1008); the 1947 Inter-Asian Relations Conference at New Delhi (items 1009-1096); the 1949 New Delhi Conference on Indonesia (items 1097-1142); legislation to place the Territory of New Guinea under the international trusteeship system and provide for the government of Papua and New Guinea (items 1430-1806); lectures and notes on diplomatic history, consisting of three parts:

(i) 'Lectures on diplomatic life' - designed to interest the cadets in diplomatic life.

(ii) 'The dialectic of peace' - 14 lectures tracing the history of the efforts for peace from the time of the formation of the League of Nations until 1948.

(iii) 'Diplomatic techniques' - lectures on conferences on reparations and disarmament and other important diplomatic subjects since 1928.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were received from the family of Sir Frederic Eggleston after his death in 1954.

Names:

Frederic William Eggleston

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