NAM.1983-03-104-26

Inventory description: Folder marked ‘High Commissioner’, containing press cuttings, letters, copies, notes and other material, chiefly relating to Cunnignham's time as High Commissioner of Palestine 1945-48. The 49 items include his commissions as High Commissioner for Trans Jordan, and High Commissioner and Commander in Chief of Palestine, signed by George VI 16 Nov 1945; the text of his speech at the Swearing In Ceremony 21 Nov 1945; notes on the local situation; copies of a letter to the Secretary of State for the Colonies 21 Apl 1948 on the termination of the Mandate; TS paper on the Palestine Mandate, with MS and printed editions of an article "Palestine - The Last Days of the Mandate (International Affairs Oct 1948); correspondence 1959, and 1971, relating to attempts to have his pension increased; correspondence Jan 1972 with Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Gen Sir Gordon MacMillan protesting at proposed visit to Britain by Menachem Begin; correspondence 1975-76 with Lord Bethel in connection with his book on the end of the British Mandate in Palestine. Associated with Palestine (1945-1948). From papers of Gen Sir Alan Cunningham (1887-1983).