Carbon copy ts. report of lecture on 'The Soviet armed forces', delivered to the Royal United Services Institution by Major General Richard Hilton, former British Military Attache with Soviet High Command in Potsdam and Moscow

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Papers of Lt Commander Edgar Philip Young RN (retired) and Amicia More YoungU DYO

DiariesU DYO/1

FilesU DYO/2

CorrespondenceU DYO/3

WritingsU DYO/4

Carbon copy ts. naval reconnaissance and intelligence reports, with correspondence, regarding the Russian civil war and the Greek invasion of Turkey, compiled or received by Sub Lieutenant Edgar Young, 'HMS Pegasus'U DYO/4/1

File. Carbon copy ts. reports regarding the Russian civil war in Transcaucasia, compiled or received by Sub Lieutenant Edgar Young (9)U DYO/4/2

Carbon copy ts. reports regarding the Russian civil war compiled or received by Sub Lieutenant Edgar YoungU DYO/4/3

Carbon copy ts. reports of a meeting on board 'HMS Suffolk' between Lieutenant Commander Edgar Young and the Soviet Naval and Military Attaches in Tokyo, regarding the political situation in the Soviet Union (2), with covering letterU DYO/4/4

Carbon copy ts. article. 'Anuradhapura - the oldest of the 'buried cities' of Ceylon', with 12 black and white photographs pasted onto sheets with captions [2 missing]U DYO/4/5

Carbon copy ts. article. 'Sigiriya - the Lion Rock [Ceylon]', with 12 black and white photographs pasted onto sheets with captions [1 missing]U DYO/4/6

File. Carbon copy ts. account of a journey through the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) made by Edgar Young with his first wife Geraldine [pp. 1-2 missing], with 101 black and white photographsU DYO/4/7

Carbon copy ts. article and second draft. 'Some aspects of Bali and the Balinese', by Geraldine Young, with 27 black and white photographs pasted onto sheets with captionsU DYO/4/8

Carbon copy ts. article. 'Some ruins of ancient Lanka - impressions of the 'buried cities' of Ceylon', with 36 black and white photographs pasted onto sheets with captions [26 missing]U DYO/4/9

Carbon copy ts. article. 'The residence of the Gods', regarding the Dieng Plateau, Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), with 9 black and white photographs pasted onto sheets with captions [1 missing]U DYO/4/10

Carbon copy ts. article. 'The Dieng Plateau - an unspoiled relic of the ancient Hindu civilisation of central Java [Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia]', with 10 black and white photographs pasted onto sheets with captions [9 missing]U DYO/4/11

File. Articles regarding Abyssinia; naval matters; Czechoslovakia; Second World War (cuttings)U DYO/4/12

File. 'Articles for press (political)', regarding French Popular Front; Spanish Civil War; visit to Britain by German Foreign Minister, Baron von Neurath, June 1937; Munich Agreement and Czechoslovakia; elections in Yugoslavia, December 1938 (carbon copies). With relative correspondenceU DYO/4/13

File. Letters to the press regarding British foreign policy; naval matters; fascism; Hungarian border revision; reselection as Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Hull North West, August 1936 (cuttings and carbon copies). With relative correspondenceU DYO/4/14

File. 'Letters refused'. Letters to the press regarding Spanish Civil War; India; naval issues; Munich Agreement and Czechoslovakia; Finland; Japanese aggression; 'Daily Worker'; National government; People's Convention (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/15

File. 'E's published correspondence 1937', regarding Czechoslovakia; peace movement; press reports of meetings addressed by Edgar Young (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/16

File. Articles regarding Czechoslovakia; press reports of meetings addressed by Edgar Young (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/17

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Hungarian border revision; Munich Agreement and Czechoslovakia; press reports of meetings addressed by Edgar Young (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/18

File. Letters to the press regarding Czechoslovakia, including correspondence with Arnold J Toynbee, regarding his article 'Czechoslovakia's German problem', in 'The Economist', 25 July 1937U DYO/4/19

File. Letters to the press and press reports of speeches by Edgar Young regarding visit to Prague with Left Book Club, May 1938; Spanish Civil War; German foreign policy; Munich Agreement and Czechoslovakia; Japanese militarism; peace movement (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/20

File. Letters to the press and press reports of speeches by Edgar Young regarding Czechoslovakia; Popular Front; Stafford Cripps; expulsion from Labour Party (cuttings)U DYO/4/21

'The Sphere', vol. CLX, no. 2085, including article by Edgar Young, 'How torpedoes are controlled', pp. 22-23U DYO/4/22

'The Sphere', vol. CLX, no. 2094, including article by Edgar Young, 'The depth - charge - nightmare of the submarine', pp. 300-301U DYO/4/23

'The Sphere', vol. CLX, no. 2095, including article by Edgar Young, 'More about the mine', pp. 342-343U DYO/4/24

'The Sphere', vol. CLXI, no. 2101, including article by Edgar Young, 'London's defence - if she is attacked from the air - I: The searchlight', pp. 114 - 119U DYO/4/25

'The Sphere', vol. CLXIII, no. 2120, including article by Edgar Young, 'Athens face to face with Rome', p. 297U DYO/4/26

'The Sphere', vol. CLXIII, no. 2130, including article by Edgar Young, 'Japan turns south', p. 212U DYO/4/27

'The Sphere', vol. CLXIII, no. 2131, including article by Edgar Young, 'The affair at Taranto', p. 248U DYO/4/28

'The Sphere', vol. CLXIII, no. 2132, including article by Edgar Young, 'The United States and the Panama', p. 280, with ts. draft and relative correspondence (3)U DYO/4/29

'The Sphere', vol. CLXIII, no. 2133, including article by Edgar Young, 'The Navy's reply to the air threat', p. 311U DYO/4/30

'The Sphere', vol. CLXIV, no. 2139, including article by Edgar Young, 'Where is the German Army? An analysis of the dispositions of the 6,000,000 Germans now under arms throughout Europe', p. 73U DYO/4/31

Carbon copy ts. article. 'A free Czechoslovakia in a free Europe', with relative correspondence with Kingsley Martin, Editor of 'New Statesman and Nation'U DYO/4/32

File. Articles in the regional press regarding the Second World War, especially naval issues (cuttings)U DYO/4/33

File. Articles in the regional press regarding the Second World War, especially naval issues (cuttings)U DYO/4/34

Artificial file. Articles regarding resistance movements in Eastern Europe and Greece during the Second World War (cuttings)U DYO/4/35

Artificial file. Articles regarding the Second World War and its aftermath, especially in Eastern Europe (cuttings)U DYO/4/36

File. Articles written as naval correspondent for the 'Yorkshire Post' during the Second World War, with relative correspondence (cuttings)U DYO/4/37

'Picture Post', vol. 7, no. 11, including article by Edgar Young, 'The lessons of Norway', p. 29U DYO/4/38

File. Articles regarding the Far East during the Second World War (cuttings)U DYO/4/39

Carbon copy ts. articles regarding naval issues during the Second World War, especially in the Far EastU DYO/4/40

Carbon copy ts. report of the Foreign Policy Commission, Cambridge Student Convention, 29 November - 1 December 1940U DYO/4/41

Leaflet issued by Leeds Forum. 'This opportunity may never recur. How has Hitler's attack on the USSR affected the war situation? How best can the change which it has caused be exploited by us?', written by Edgar YoungU DYO/4/42

File. Articles regarding the Second World War (cuttings)U DYO/4/43

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding the Second World War, especially the need for a Second Front and assistance for China and the Soviet Union (cuttings)U DYO/4/44

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding the Second World War, especially the need for a Second Front; the Red Army; the Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Robert Keyes; Japan; India; and Anglo-Soviet weeks (cuttings)U DYO/4/45

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding the Second World War (cuttings)U DYO/4/46

File. Articles, mainly for the 'Sydney Daily Mail', with notes, speeches and notices of meetings, regarding the need for a Second Front in Europe and the resistance movement in Yugoslavia (carbon copies)U DYO/4/47

File. Articles regarding the Navy estimates and the conflict between science and finance in the shipbuilding industry (carbon copies)U DYO/4/48

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding the Second World War, especially 25th anniversary of the Red Army; Anglo - Soviet Brains Trust; Spain; and India (cuttings)U DYO/4/49

File. Articles regarding the Second World War, especially naval issues (cuttings)U DYO/4/50

Carbon copy ts. articles regarding the need for a cross-Channel invasion of mainland Europe by Allied forces, and the role of the Navy in such plans.U DYO/4/51

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding membership of the Labour Party; the Balkans; Soviet Union; Warsaw uprising; Red Army; Czechoslovakia; the Beveridge Report; starvation in Greece (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/52

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; South Africa; Krishna Menon (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/53

Ts. 'PASC News Letter: official organ of the Anglo - Soviet Council', vol. 1, no. 7, including article by Edgar Young, 'Bulgarian realities'U DYO/4/54

Corrected proof copy. Review of 'There is a spirit in Europe: a memoir of Frank Thompson', [? for publication in 'The Times Literary Supplement']U DYO/4/55

Proof copy of article. 'Romania making up lost ground', [? for publication in 'The Observer']U DYO/4/56

'The Queen: the ladies' newspaper...', including article by Edgar Young on post war reconstruction in Czechoslovakia, 'Putting their house in order', p. 11U DYO/4/57

'Librarian: The Librarian and Book World', vol. XXXVI, no. 10, including article by Edgar Young, 'The popular libraries of Bulgaria', pp. 213 - 218U DYO/4/58

File. Articles and letters to the press, regarding Eastern Europe, especially railway construction in Yugoslavia; Labour government; British trade unions (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/59

File. Articles published in the 'National Herald', India, regarding Eastern Europe, especially East Germany (cuttings)U DYO/4/60

File. Articles regarding post war reconstruction in the Soviet Zone of eastern Germany, transcripts of speeches to the Congress of the German Society for the Study of Soviet Culture, July 1949 and related correspondence (carbon copies)U DYO/4/61

Carbon copy ts. of untitled work regarding the history of Bulgaria from circa 1939 to 1948, comprising 'Chapter II: The country and its people', 'Chapter VI: Popular organisations' and 'Chapter VII: Internal politics'U DYO/4/62

File. Articles, book reviews and letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; British foreign policy; Labour Party; China; Hong Kong (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/63

'Russia Today', including biography of Edgar Young, pp. 8 - 9U DYO/4/64

Carbon copy ts. report on the International Conference of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 25 - 30 June [no year]U DYO/4/65

Carbon copy ts. report of lecture on 'The Soviet armed forces', delivered to the Royal United Services Institution by Major General Richard Hilton, former British Military Attache with Soviet High Command in Potsdam and MoscowU DYO/4/66

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Czechoslovakia, especially the Communist seizure of power in 1948 (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/67

File. Articles regarding the Labour Party; Bulgaria; Trades Union Congress; Korea; United States; South East Asia; Yugoslavia; London dock strike; atomic bomb (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/68

Carbon copy ts. articles regarding the Third Congress of the German - Soviet Friendship Society, with covering letter to 'Russia Today'U DYO/4/69

File. Articles regarding Eastern Europe; East - West relations; Labour government; British trade unions (cuttings)U DYO/4/70

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding German rearmament; Bulgaria; NATO; atomic bomb; Korea; South East Asia; British railway network; London dockers (cuttings)U DYO/4/71

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding German rearmament; atomic bomb; Bulgaria; Soviet Union; British Guiana (cuttings)U DYO/4/72

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe; South East Asia; atomic bomb (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/73

Carbon copy ts. articles regarding Bulgaria, from the inter - war years, through the Second World War, to the establishment of the People's Republic of BulgariaU DYO/4/74

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding case of Admiral Sir Dudley North, former Flag Officer North Atlantic during Second World War (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/75

File. Articles regarding Eastern Europe, especially the Leipzig trade fair (cuttings)U DYO/4/76

Files. Articles and letters to the press regarding the Soviet Navy, especially the visit by its Baltic Fleet to Portsmouth (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/77

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe; energy; Hungarian uprising; British - Czech trade; Czechoslovak shipping (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/78

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Hungarian uprising; shipping in Bulgaria; atomic energy (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/79

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe, especially shipbuilding (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/80

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding the 20th anniversary of the Munich Agreement, including correspondence with Andrew Rothstein regarding the publication of his book, 'The Munich conspiracy' (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/81

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe, especially shipping and industry; South East Asia (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/82

Carbon copy ts. articles regarding Soviet hydrofoils and hovercraft, with covering letters and press cuttingsU DYO/4/83

Carbon copy ts. article. 'How the engineers are faring in liberated Vietnam', with 7 black and white photographs of the Handong machine tool factory taken by Amicia YoungU DYO/4/84

Carbon copy ts. article. 'The theatre in Vietnam', with relative correspondence with 'New Orient'U DYO/4/85

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding East - West relations; West Berlin and erection of the Wall; South East Asia; Oder - Neisse Line; Eastern Bloc, especially shipping; mineral resources in Soviet Union (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/86

File. Articles regarding shipping and industry, especially in the Eastern Bloc (cuttings)U DYO/4/87

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe, especially shipping; South East Asia; Soviet merchant fleet (cuttings)U DYO/4/88

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe, especially shipping and industry (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/89

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe; Berlin Wall; Vietnam; visit to Britain by Soviet war veterans; shipping; Dieppe raids, 1943 (cuttings)U DYO/4/90

Carbon copy ts. articles regarding the East German fishery research trawler 'Ernst Haeckel'U DYO/4/91

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding shipping and industry, especially in the Eastern Bloc; China; South East Asia (cuttings)U DYO/4/92

File. Carbon copy ts. articles regarding the launch of the Soviet passenger liner 'Ivan Franko', with relative correspondence and press cuttingsU DYO/4/93

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding shipping, especially in the Eastern Bloc; Vietnam War (cuttings)U DYO/4/94

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding the Vietnam War (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/95

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding the Vietnam War; China and the United Nations; shipping in the Eastern BlocU DYO/4/96

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding shipping and fishing in the Eastern Bloc; Vietnam War; Munich Agreement (cuttings)U DYO/4/97

File. Correspondence with 'The Economist' regarding the Vietnam War (carbon copies)U DYO/4/98

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding shipping, especially in the Eastern Bloc; Czechoslovakia; East Germany; Vietnam War; Ho Chi Minh (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/99

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Czechoslovakia, especially the Prague Spring (carbon copies)U DYO/4/100

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding the Soviet naval presence in the Indian Ocean and the American base on Diego Garcia (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/101

'The Journal', no. 263, Birmingham Trades Council, including article by Edgar Young, 'A sane look at what has happened in Czechoslovakia', p. 1U DYO/4/102

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Soviet merchant fleet; shipbuilding in the Soviet Union (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/103

Artificial file. Articles regarding shipping and fishing, especially in the Eastern Bloc (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/104

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Vietnam War; Munich Agreement; Eastern Europe; shipping; Neo - Nazism; Czechoslovakia; Earl Mountbatten (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/105

Artificial file. Articles and letters to the press regarding Czechoslovakia, especially the Munich Agreement (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/106

'Contemporary Review', including article by Edgar Young, 'A great Romanian historian and patriot', pp. 74 - 79U DYO/4/107

File. Articles and letters to the press regarding Vietnam War; Eastern Europe; East - West relations; peace movement; Cuba (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/108

'Sea Frontiers: magazine of the International Oceanographic Foundation', vol. 16, no. 1, including article by Edgar Young, 'Soviet mini - submarine', p. 25U DYO/4/109

Artificial file. Articles regarding shipping and fishing, especially in the Eastern BlocU DYO/4/110

'British Soviet Friendship', including article by Edgar Young, 'Soviet rugby fields 300 teams', p. 3U DYO/4/111

'British Soviet Friendship', including article by Edgar Young, 'Contrast in victory celebrations [25th anniversary of VE Day]', pp. 1 & 3U DYO/4/112

'British Soviet Friendship', including article by Edgar Young, 'Fishing is transformed', p. 8U DYO/4/113

'World Fishing', vol. 19, no. 7, including article by Edgar Young, 'Vostok and her catcher boats', pp. 22 - 23 & 50U DYO/4/114

File. Articles and the letters to the press regarding Czechoslovakia, especially the Munich Agreement, 'The diplomatic diaries of Oliver Harvey 1937 - 40' and biography of Dubcek by William Shawcross; demonstration by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/115

Carbon copy ts. article, 'Dredgers from Czechoslovakia: her speciality within Comecon', with photocopy of published article from 'Ship and Boat International'U DYO/4/116

Carbon copy ts. article, 'Floating power station for arctic Siberia', with black and white photographU DYO/4/117

File. Articles regarding shipping and fishing, especially in the Eastern Bloc (cuttings)U DYO/4/118

Artificial file. Articles and letters to the press regarding Czechoslovakia, especially the Munich Agreement, political trials of the 1950s and Prague Spring; East - West relations; trade with Romania; Soviet espionage (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/119

File. Articles regarding shipping and fishing, especially in the Eastern Bloc (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/120

Artificial file. Letters to the press regarding Eastern Europe, especially Czechoslovakia (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/121

File. Articles regarding shipping and fishing, especially in the Eastern Bloc (cuttings)U DYO/4/122

File. Articles regarding shipping and fishing, especially in the Eastern Bloc (cuttings)U DYO/4/123

Ts. draft leaflet for the British - Soviet Friendship Society, 'Disarmament and security', with relative notesU DYO/4/124

File. Articles regarding shipping and fishing, especially in the Eastern Bloc (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/125

Artificial file. Letters to the press regarding Czechoslovakia, especially Dubcek and the Prague Spring; Soviet Union, especially trade, relations with the West and trials of dissidents (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/126

Carbon copy ts. articles and news items regarding shipbuilding in Romania, with 4 black and white photographs of Romanian shipyardsU DYO/4/127

Carbon copy ts. articles summarising shipping and shipbuilding developments in the Soviet Union, with covering letters to 'Fairplay International Shipping Weekly'U DYO/4/128

Artificial file. Articles regarding shipping and fishing, especially in the Eastern Bloc (cuttings and carbon copies)U DYO/4/129

File. 'Last writings'. Articles and letters to the press regarding Invergordon mutiny, 1931; fishing, shipping and industry in the Eastern Bloc; East - West trade; defence spending; Soviet dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov; BBC external broadcastingU DYO/4/130

IndexesU DYO/5

Lectures and speechesU DYO/6

Translation workU DYO/7

PhotographsU DYO/8

PersonalU DYO/9

International Peace CampaignU DYO/10

Union of Democratic ControlU DYO/11

Amicia M YoungU DYO/12

MiscellaneousU DYO/13