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South African tour of British Isles, 1970



Reference
MCC/CRI/5/2/54
Date:
1969-12-29 - 1970-06-24
Level of description
file
Extent
3 folders
Part of
International Cricket Tours of British Isles (MCC/CRI/5/2)
Scope and Content
Correspondence, minutes, newspaper cuttings, House of Lords and House of Commons official reports and minutes relating to the cancelled South African tour of the British Isles in 1970. Subjects include itineraries for the tour, financial implications of cancelling the tour, memorandum from the Cricket Council to the Home Secretary regarding the tour, consideration of using non-turf artificial pitches at county grounds during the tour, extracts from speeches in the House of Lords on the police service, minutes of meetings of county secretaries where matches against South Africa were due to be played in 1970, press statements from the Cricket Council regarding the tour, copy of official report from the House of Commons, 13 May 1970, which includes the parliamentary debate on whether to cancel the South African tour, decision by Francis Bennion to prosecute Peter Hain [due to Hain's role in the Stop the Seventy Tour campaign], copies of letters from the South African National Lawn Tennis Union to the International Lawn Tennis Federation, relating to the possible expulsion of South Africa from the federation, estimates of income and expenditure from a possible Rest of the World tour of the British Isles in 1970.
Associations
Cricket Council
House of Lords
House of Commons
Peter Gerald Hain
Francis Alan Roscoe Bennion
South African National Lawn Tennis Union
International Lawn Tennis Federation
Subject
South Africa in England 1970, cancelled tours, apartheid, tennis, Stop The Seventy Tour, politics, South Africa controversy, Rest of the World in England 1970, controversies
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
3 folders
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