25 September 2003 releases

Criticism of New Zealand Prime Minister Norman Kirk's views on immigration from New Zealand to the UK.

Nixon is reported as concerned about the problem of coal miners' pneumoconiosis ("black lung disease").

Britain's charge d'affaires in Washington meets Nixon's National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, to discuss the agenda for the President's visit. He reports to London Kissinger's views on the US's relations with Britain and with France.

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and US President Nixon exchange views on the Soviet Union - and Soviet leader Kosygin's bitterness towards China. Discussion of whether or not the US should lobby France over Britain's application for EEC membership, and of De Gaulle's fears that conflict in the Middle East will lead to a Third World War.

Briefs for the President's visit

General Strike, 1926. Police baton charge at Poplar.

General Strike, May 1926. Publications likely to cause mutiny, sedition, disaffection, etc.; Order under Emergency Regulations, 1926, dated 4 May 1926.

Suppression of traffic in obscene publications, indecent wares etc.

Effects of wartime diet on the nation's nutrition. Use of the Blood Transfusion Service to assess nutrition levels. Discussion of possible causes for apparent increase in skin rashes.