visitors book british prime ministers (1 résultats)

Leather bound. Etat : Near fine. Visitors Book with notable signatures from Prime Ministers, Foreign Ambassadors and film stars of the 1960's. (illustrateur). Visitors Book. Twelvemo, [100pp]. Bound by "Leathersmith" of England in full pigskin, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. This guestbook began at the French Film Festival in Birmingham, England in 1957, but it is unclear where it was held afterwards. This work includes the signatures of the following Prime Ministers: Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Prime Minister Anthony Eden (and Lady Eden), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (and Lady Dorothy Macmillan), and Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home (and Elizabeth Home). Foreign Secretaries: Yugoslav Ambassador Ivo Vejvoda, German Ambassador Hans von Herwarth, Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik, Gen. Cortland V.R. Schuyler (Chief of Staff, SHAPE), and Chief Minister of Gujarat, Jivraj Narayan Mehta. This book is also signed by the Honorable Richard Attenborough in 1960. Other notable entries include French and English actors Maurice Ronet, Jean Marais, Nicole Berger, Anna Neagle, Herbert Wilcox, Vera Lynn, Dick Emery and Cricketer Peter May. The following British dignitaries also signed the book: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Reginald Maulding; Major The Right Honorable, The Lord Ilford; Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone; Foreign Secretary George Brown.