AG/HOS/12 - Research papers for Hostage in Peking

AG/HOS/12

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Research papers for Hostage in Peking

1962-1969

2 ring-binders in one box

Research papers for the book 'Hostage in Peking' but which include materials directly relating to AG's house arrest in Peking. Kept in 2 ring-binders in one box.

AG/HOS/12/1
AG/HOS/12/2

AG/HOS/12/1 (selected contents described)
- Account of expenditure en route to Peking to take up assignment, March 1967.
- Typed notes on China's politics.
- Transcripts of journalistic interviews, 1966 (pre-dates AG's time in China).
- News report filed by [Vincent] Mulchrone on AG in Peking, January 1968.
- AG's report of his visit to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 6 November [1969] with Michael Stewart.
- Peking Review and other press cuttings.
- Statement to the Press by AG, Karachi, 10/10/1969 (describes criticism AG received from the Pakistani press; and AG's requests for how he should be reunited with his family at the airport).
- Note to AG to stay aboard aircraft during Dacca [Dhaka] stopover when an airline representative will process his immigration.
- Draft telegram from AG to Reuters, 5/10/1969 re visa arrangements and severance pay to three domestic staff in Peking.
- Statement read to AG by an official of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Information Dept., 21/07/1967. It refers to the fascist suppression of Chinese in Hong Kong by the British government and the illegal trial of Hsueh Ping. As a result AG is ordered to remain in his residence and not leave, and his visa is withdrawn.
- Reuters report airmailed by AG about the cultural and social hold of Mao over his people, 4/05/1967.
- Letter from AG to Mr Horton at Reuters, 18/07/1967 on the discrimination he is experiencing as a British journalist and his thwarted attempts to get to Tokyo and Hong Kong.
- Reuters report filed by AG on the return of the Red Guards t school and the eulogising of the Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung.
- Sketch plan of AG's house in Peking.
- Strike of Reuter staff in Peking, by AG, 30/05/1967.
- Handwritten jottings of AG from 1967-1969. These appear to have been torn form a notebook.
- Telegram report by AG on relations between China and Indonesia, 13/05/1967.
- Cables and letters concerning AG's detention.
- Questions which would be posed to AG in a German television interview, October 1969.

AG/HOS/12/2 (selected contents described)
- Press cuttings.
- Accounts.
- Telegram report by AG on Indo-China relations, 30/04/1967.
- An account of events of 22/23 August. Part typescript part manuscript.
- Handwritten notes.
- Typed Reuters reports by AG on the Peking situation for the Situationer.