- A2/63.
- Ffeil
- 1952, Feb. 5.
Rhan oHuw T. Edwards Papers
J. C. Griffiths Jones, 2 North Road, Cardiff. Is in bed with influenza and has had to miss the Welsh debate. The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire had a grand time with Sir David Maxwell Fyfe; the writer was allowed forty minutes to put the Welsh case before him. The Council's short-term aims have been granted: the recognition of [John] Morgan Jones, Ministry of Agriculture, and the establishment of a real Welsh Office for educational matters. These are real victories for the Council, and are some justification for its continued existence. Maxwell Fyfe made it clear that he will depend increasingly upon the Council, and will give much assistance over the Rural Depopulation problem. The next step is to tackle Maxwell Fyfe over the Council's long term aim of parity with Scotland. He should be pressed to concede a Catto Committee for Wales which the Council has sternly advocated. Thinks that the Committee which Chuter Ede established on Welsh publications is of considerable importance, and awaits its report with much interest. It would be helpful if the recipient, in his article, plugged the need for the setting up of a Wales Art and Culture Council as such a body would be able to make grants to Welsh publishers and authors. Suggests the points that the recipient might include in his column. Could Mrs JC give a night to the Cymmrodorion on Deeside? The writer is anxious to be responsible for the arrangements, and he wishes the profits to go to the National Eisteddfod. 'Private & Confidential'.