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1984 Oct 2 - 1985 May 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1435
Defence (Celebration of 40th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 189
Any docs withheld? 5

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85 May 6 Mo Major Defence: UKE Moscow telegram 649 to FCO (1400Z) ("Soviet Commemoration of VE Day: Messages") [coordination of the publication of MT & Gorbachev's goodwill messages] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 7 Tu Major Defence: MT letter to Gorbachev (40th Anniversary of the End of the War in Europe) [goodwill message] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 7 Tu Major Defence: Gorbachev message to MT (UKE Moscow telegram 651 of 6 May to FCO, 1430Z) ("Soviet Commemoration of VE Day: Messages") [goodwill message] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 9 Th Major Defence: UKE Moscow telegram 678 to FCO (1415Z) ("Commemoration in the Soviet Union of the 40th Anniversary of VE Day: Ceremonies on 9th May") [report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 9 Th Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram 468 to FCO (1000Z) ("40th Anniversary of the End of the War in Europe") [report on President Weizsäcker's speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 29 We Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("40th Anniversary: Sir J Bullard's Despatch of 21 May") [analysis of how the anniversary played out in West Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]