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WORLD OUTLOOK: 1945-50
TC 50: 4 boxes
BOX 1: OPINIONS ON WORLD OUTLOOK, THE ROLE OF THE USA & UNO
50/1/A: Prospects of Future Wars, Causes and Ways of Avoiding War
Questionnaires and pilot qq, typewritten
'Repeat' qq and pilot interviews, typewritten and handwritten, London areas, Jan 1945-Jan 1946 (AC, HW, MS)
Overheards on feelings towards UNO, handwritten, Westminster, London, 12.1.46 (HW)
Indirect interview with soldier on the breakdown of the Conference of Foreign Ministers, typewritten (short), 3.10.45
Questions, typewritten, with notes and comments relating particularly to the American war effort and the American elections-undated
Questions for consideration in world organisation investigation, typewritten, 3.1.46
50/1/B, C, D: Prospects of Future Wars, Causes and Ways of Avoiding War
Answers to questionnaire, handwritten, carried out in Shrewsbury, Jan-Feb 1946 (TR, GST, HW)
50/1/E: General World Outlook
Report, typewritten, on conclusions reached from 'Repeat' questionnaires under headings of War, Disarmament, Atom Bomb and Internationalism
Statistical results of qq, typewritten and handwritten
Analysis of individual questions, typewritten and handwritten, under separate headings with tabulated numbers
Squared paper, for filling in days, dates and times, for use of investigator
50/1/F: General World Outlook
Answers to questionnaire and informal interviews, typewritten undated, places and investigators not mentioned
50/1/G: Prospect of World Peace
Newspaper cuttings from Northern and national newspapers, May-Oct 1947
Pamphlet entitled Towards World Peace, detailing programme of a London convention, 18-25.8.45
50/1/H: Comparisons Past and Present of the State of the World and Feelings about the Future
Indirects and informals, handwritten, with questions, typewritten, on the UNO, League of Nations and Atomic Energy, with notes and tabulated results, handwritten and typewritten, Feb-Oct 1946 (ML, TR, EG, LB)
Drawing of United Nations Emergency Force badge (unidentified, undated)
50/1/I: World Organisation and the Future
Interim report, typewritten, describing people's hopes and expectations for the future of the world, 58 pages, including "Contents" and "Preface". Actual report begins with "Scope, Purpose and Method of this Survey", 55 pages
BOX 2: OPINIONS ON WORLD OUTLOOK, THE ROLE OF THE USA & UNO
50/2/A-I: Prospects of Future Wars, Causes and Ways of Avoiding War
Answers to questionnaires, handwritten and typewritten, carried out in Hammersmith, Jan-Aug 1946:
50/2/A (PV)
50/2/B (EG, IPL, AC, MM)
50/2/C (TR)
50/2/D (ML)
50/2/E (GST)
50/2/F (UP)
50/2/G (LB)
50/2/H (JMK)
50/2/I (TT, MD)
BOX 3: OPINIONS ON WORLD OUTLOOK, THE ROLE OF THE USA & UNO
50/3/A-B: Prospects of Future Wars, Causes and Ways of Avoiding War
Answers to questionnaires, handwritten and typewritten, carried out in Hammersmith, Jan-Dec 1946:
50/3/A (HW)
50/3/B (IPS, BS, BW)
50/3/C-E: Prospects of Future Wars, Causes and Ways of Avoiding War:
50/3/C: Tabulations of numbers and initials, handwritten, onto large, narrow-squared paper
50/3/D: Tabulations of numbers, handwritten, on plain paper
50/3/E : Analysis sheets and tabulations, handwritten; UN survey tabulations, handwritten
Comparisons between Hammersmith and Shrewsbury surveys, handwritten
50/3/F: General World Outlook/Miscellaneous
Answers to questionnaires with notes and indirect interviews, typewritten and handwritten, (EG, LB)
Copy of revised questionnaire, typewritten, which includes question on the atom bomb and related correspondence, including copy of a letter stating "with regard to the Shrewsbury investigation ... this will give sufficient accuracy in the numerical results for important differences between opinion there and in Hammersmith to be clear", and a letter from a prospective investigator
Notes on questions 8-11, handwritten
Notes on "Suggested Alternative Topics for Investigation"
Report, handwritten, entitled "General Impression of the Shrewsbury Investigation", 14.2.46
Ms indirect 6.3.47 on Science and the Atom Bomb with pamphlet They came to a city: the politics of the Atom Bomb
BOX 4: World Outlook Survey 1950
50/4/A-B: Replies to survey
Handwritten replies to 10 point questionnaire concerning the prevention and causes of war, United Nations Organisation's place in world affairs, spending habits and the death of George Bernard Shaw. 1-15.11.50 Hammersmith (DM, BS, JPS, LB). Approx 250 replies
50/4/C: Analysis of results
Typed code sheet
Tabulation sheets: analysis of survey
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