Extracts from a letter dated 11 October 1972, from the Department of Environment recounting the impressions of Minister Eldon Griffiths after a visit to Hemswell resettlement centre, Catalogue ref: HLG 118/2933.

Extracts from an article in The Times newspaper with photograph. It provides insight into the challenges faced by families separated, and information about the red and green settlement areas,  26 September 1973, Catalogue ref: T353/112 

Extract from a letter from the Uganda Resettlement Board requesting addresses for Ugandan Asian families so that ‘life skills’ visits could be arranged by local voluntary groups, 15 March 1973, Catalogue ref: T353/63. 

Article titled ‘British Seek US Help for Plan to Contain Chinese Communism’ by Benjamin Welles, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, 6 January 1949. Catalogue ref: FO 371/75736 

Extract from a translated New Year’s message from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek printed in China Newsweek, a British bulletin, 6 January 1945. Catalogue ref: FO 371/75736 

Report entitled ‘METHODS OF DISTINGUISHING GUERRILLAS FROM CIVILIANS’ by the Japanese army, captured and translated by the US Army’s Pacific Military Intelligence Research (PACMIR). 1943-45. Catalogue ref: WO 208/4398    

From 1937 to 1945, China and Japan fought in the second Sino-Japanese War as part of the Second World War. During this war, the KMT and CCP formed a precarious united front. The CCP successfully used guerrilla tactics against the Japanese army and recruited support in the rural population. In contrast, KMT forces were weakened by the war and the KMT government struggled with the economic fallout of the conflict. 

Dispatch in English on 3 November 1945 in which KMT Minister of Information K.C. Wu dismisses charges by the CCP. Catalogue ref: WO 208/4398

Telegram from H. Seymour, British Ambassador to China, to the British Foreign Office on 31 October 1945. Catalogue ref: WO 208/4398