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Europe: MT draft section ?for conference speech (Europe) ["To suppress nationhood would be damaging & would hinder progress"] [released Jul 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS, Churchill Archive Centre: THCR 1/7/63 f3
Editorial comments:

Undated; listed as Saturday 1 Oct when MT was at Chequers working on boxes. She was working on her conference speech with the speechwriting team the following day. The notes resemble the kinds of modules MT sketched for her conference speech, but it is possible this piece had other purposes. It was not found a conference speech file. The phrase "suppress nationhood" appears in both Bruges and the conference speech. A transcript by the site editor follows the two handwriten pages.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: European Union (general), Economic, monetary & political union, European Union Single Market, Conservatism