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Miscellaneous 50/1. Identity cards and railway passes 50/2. Civil honours list 50/4....
Catalogue reference: FO 252/750
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FO 252/750
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1942
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Miscellaneous 50/1. Identity cards and railway passes 50/2. Civil honours list 50/4. Personages, official, visiting United Kingdom: preferential treatment for 50/5. Seidner, Edmond 50/7. Newlove, William 50/8. Weissmann, Edouard 50/9. General 50/10. English school, Guatemala 50/11. Foreign Service, reform of 50/12. Premises occupied by Guatemalan diplomats in London: taxes on 50/13. Cayman Island fishing fleet 50/14. Breton, Dr. Tómas Le: Quetzal bird for 50/15. United States army officer: appointment of, to Polytechnic School, Guatemala 50/16. American book store, Guatemala 50/17. Henderson, Ian Leslie 50/18. Ethiopia, H.M.G. in United Kingdom and policy regarding 50/19. Who's Who in Nazi Germany 50/20. United Nations' Day 50/21. India, importation into 50/22. Club Guatemala 50/23. Greek Government interests in Central America: H.M.G. will look after 50/24. Volunteers, decorations received by 50/25. Polish refugees 50/26. Kent, Duke of: death of 50/27. Bromberg, Mayer 50/28. Priority passage by air 50/29. Cultural relations, United States and Latin America
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Volume M.50
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Open Document, Open Description
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