Repository | Lambeth Palace Library |
Level | File |
Alt Ref No | CFR G 25 |
Extent | 77 ff. |
Title | Jerusalem. City of: building projects, |
Date | 1964-1973 |
Description | Papers relating to Israeli building projects held by oponents to damage the ancient character of the city and squeeze out the Arab population, including: preservation of the Mount of Olives area, including plan, 1964 (ff.1-5); letter from Monsignor Ne'imeh .J. Simaan enclosing a copy of a telegram from the leaders of the Christian communities in Amman to U Thant, UN Secretary General, protesting against any alteration of historical and religious features of the Old City, with reply (ff.6-8); note of a meeting with the Jordanian Ambassador, March 1971, and copy of the English translation of a letter to Archbishop Ramsey from King Hussein of Jordan about building projects in Jerusalem (ff.10-13, 17); copy of a telegram from Egyptian church leaders to Archbishop Ramsey and reply (ff.14-15); note of Archbishop Ramsey's meeting with the Israeli Ambassador (ff.16, 18); copy of a letter from Jordanian church leaders to Pope Paul VI, Patriarch Athenagoras and Archbishop Ramsey, March 1971 (f.19); text of Archbishop Ramsey's presidential address to the Convocation of Canterbury, 12 October 1971 (ff.22-24); Archbishop Ramsey's correspondence with Archbishop Appleton and Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark (ff.25-26); correspondence between Archbishop Ramsey and Sir Alec Douglas Home (ff.27-34); correspondence between Archbishop Ramsey and the Hon. Terence Prittie (Britain and Israel organisation) (ff.35-36, 38-43); meeting between Archbishop Ramsey and Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem, 27 June 1972 (ff.44-49); letter from Michael Comay, Israeli Ambassador, to Archbishop Ramsey about the area around Bethlehem (f.50); correspondence with CAABU (ff.51-52); note of a meeting between Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy-Mayor of Jerusalem and members of the Church Press, Nov 1973 (f.53); photographs of building projects, 1971 (ff.54-74); plans of Jerusalem connected with building projects, 1971 (ff.75-77). |
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