Northern (N): Soviet Union (NS). Meetings and Conclusions of the Russia Committee Meeting Periodically in the FO to Consider Soviet Policy and World-Wide Intentions as Well as Chinese Intentions in the Far East

A file containing minutes and reports of the British government's Russia Committee, covering reviews of Soviet Union world-wide policy, Chinese intentions in the Far East, and monitoring of communist propaganda worldwide. The file includes the minutes of a special meeting to discuss a draft telegram considering possible Soviet reactions in the event of failure to reach agreement at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, and a decision by Western powers to proceed with German military contributions to Western defence. Other documents in the file cover anti-Soviet discontent in Czechoslovakia, and the possibility of war. Propaganda discussed includes war hysteria tactics; German rearmament; actions of the French and British communist parties; and visits of communist leaders to the Soviet Union.