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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.

Letters to Beatrice ('Mima') Ormsby-Gore, fourth Lady Harlech, 1913-1943, from her mother, Lady Salisbury and mother-in-law, Margaret, third Lady Harlech, on family visits and social activities, 1913; from her husband, William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, while on his official duties abroad, vividly describing the topography and culture of Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1918, North America, where he encountered President Roosevelt, 1939, and Lisbon, where he met Salazar, 1940; and an invitation from the minister of town and country planning to Lord Harlech to serve on the Commission on National Parks, 1943.