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Anglo-American Relations with Austria, 1945-1955 Margaret Denton University of Wollongong University of Wollongong Thesis Collections University of Wollongong Thesis Collection University of Wollongong Year A hideously complicated problem: Anglo-American relations with Austria, 1945-1955 Margaret Denton University of Wollongong This paper is posted at Research Online. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/1430 300 SoLurces arwi BUDliogx-aptry Unpublished Primary Sources Public Record Office, Kew FO 371 - Foreign Office General Correspondence (Political), 1942-1956 FO 800 - PrJ.ate Collections: Ministers and Officials: The Bevin Papers FO 945 - Records of the Control Office for Germany and Austria, 1945-1947 CAB 65 - Cabinet conclusions, 1939-1945 CAB 66 - Cabinet memoranda, 1939-1945 CAB 128 - Cabinet conclusions, 1945-1955 CAB 129 - Cabinet memoranda, 1945-1955 PREM 4 - Prime Minister's Private Office papers, 1941-1945 PREM 8 - Prime Minister's Private Office papers, 1945-1950 PREM 11 - Prime Minister's Private Office papers, 1951-1955 Oesterreichisches Staatsarchiv, Archiv der Republik, Vienna Papers of the Bundeskanzleramt (later Bundesministerium) fuer Auswaertige Anglegenheiten, Sektion II-Pol, 1945-1952; I have cited these papers as AdR, BMAA in the footnotes. 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