Large file containing various speeches, lectures and scripts for radio broadcasts, 1940-1945.
It includes the script of W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore 's inaugural radio broadcast as UK High Commissioner in South Africa, 1941, together with his professional reports to the Dominions Office, speeches and essays on typical South African issues, such as the effects of industrialisation; agricultural production, with suggested measures for improvement; the constitution and local administrative systems under colonial government; health care and education; the development of Afrikaner nationalism; political, religious and racial relations in a cosmopolitan population; South Africa 's position in the Second World War including political relations with the resident German community; and preservation of the cultural heritage by the South African Library at Cape Town, 1942-1944. The file also contains the script of a radio broadcast about the Portuguese prime minister, Dr Salazar, 1940; a memorandum on post-war British agricultural policy, 1944; a speech given at Chatham House in 1945 on the mandate system devised by the Allied Powers after the First World War; an essay about the need for more liberal education; and several lectures and essays on Western European architecture and painting, art criticism, contemporary South African art, museums and monuments in Portugal, and English place names, 1940-1943.

Large file of speeches, lectures and scripts of broadcasts given by William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore in his capacity as Under-secretary of State for the Colonies, mainly concerning the economic and agricultural development of British colonies, especially in Africa and southern Asia; other topics related to colonial government include education, transport, human and veterinary tropical medicine, the administrative system, recruitment to the colonial service, government policies and diplomatic relations, 1925-1933. The file includes an address on the general economic geography of the British empire [1925], the typescript of a speech made to the League of Nations Conference in 1929 on the subject of forced labour in colonial Africa, and a reprint of Ormsby-Gore 's published report on the fourteenth assembly of the League of Nations, 1934.