| Description | Folder of typed letters from Ethel Mannin to Christopher Walker, written between June and August 1968. Topics covered include receptions at the Jordanian Embassy and an invitation to another one organised by the Jordan Refugee Committee for Rouhi Khatib, Mayor of Jerusalem, information about Manuela Sykes (who has not answered EM's letters), the the assassination of Robert F Kennedy on 5th June 1968, a recent Israeli attack on Jordan that killed 35 people, a televised debate between Jo Grimond and Christopher Mayhew about Palestine and Israel, the Committee for the Freedom of Israel, Desmond Stewart's book 'The Arab World', the recent coup in Iraq compared to previous ones, Bishop Cu'bain of Jerusalem, the PFLP hi-jacking of a plane, Egyptian artist Youssef Francis, Miss Coate's Zerka Project to house refugees, Christopher Walker's trip to the Middle East at the end of August - with references to his meetings with Ismael Shammout, Basil Ennab, and former Jordanian Ambassador Anwar Bey Nuseibeh and his wife - as well as Mannin's recommendations for places to go and people to meet - a review of EM's latest novel 'Bitter Babylon' by Kay Dick, the death of Mannin's Iraqi friend Khalid Zaki, her Palestinian dentist Fuad Haddad, meetings with, and opinions of, Suleiman Mousa, Desmond Stewart and others, events in Paris and the possible repercussions of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. |