f - 3 7 ^ 7 ~/h i U kc\c u l a j l CAtf^juM. & < A , /1fy\oMs*J' huA-tsi uJ.oyMzC^j/M<. L u « & Chairman: THE REVEREND CANON L JOHN COLLINS Defence and 104-5 NEWGATE STREET LONDON EC1 Telephone MONarch 6123 (01-606 6123) All Correspondence to the Registered offices: Aid Fund 2 AMEN COURT LONDON EC4 29 July 1970 Dear Alex I am so sorry to Dear that you have had to have two operations and the resultant unpleasantness, and I hope that you will recover very quickly. Diana and I send our best wishes^ ^fcK^ir ttytt ■ Please forgive me for not having written to you sooner. Mr Alex Hepple 319 Ballards Lane IT.12 4th. August 1970 Dear John, Thank you for your kind note. I am feeling better every day. My wound is healing nicely and I’m hoping that by next week I can stop having it dressed every day. My only regret is that I had to undergo major surgery because some­ thing went wrong in a minor examination. Regarding the letter which have written separately about the OAD, perhaps I ought to remind you of our arrangement that this office should not be advertised. Looking forward to seeing you again soon. With very best wishes, Yours, International Defence and Aid Fund In consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations PRESIDENT: 2 AMEN COURT, LONDON, E.C.4 The Reverend Canon L. John Collins GENERAL SECRETARY: Telephone: 01-606 6123 Mrs Phyllis Altman Cables: DEFENDAID. London, E.C.4M 7BX 6th July 1972 I have pleasure in quoting an extract from the Minutes of the Annual Conference of the International Defence and Aid Fund, held in London on 6th and 7th May 1972. "Dean Gunnar Ilelander (Sweden) moved a vote of thanks to Mr and Mrs Alex Hepple for their outstanding work in the production of the Information Service Manual and the series of pamphlets. This was seconded by the Rev. Godfrey Wilson (New Zealand) and unanimously agreed." Apart from the formal vote of thanks, I should tell you that all delegates spoke very highly of the Service Manual and the pamphlets. They praised especially the accuracy and objectivity of the material produced by your Research Unit. ^ A ft~j ^ t o t - Jrf ^ A Y fnt t hf* h : ^ ^ 7 r ^ t T v > £ h 5 . John Collins "A' / / 2 / 7 . .u u President ^ ‘ " “M • M A - 0 X /n M C Mr and Mrs Alex Hepple ' & DEFA Research ' y1 A , i82 Ballards Lane L - ' London N3 2NB on^ International Defence and Aid Fund In consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations PRESIDENT: 2 AMEN COURT, LONDON, E.C.4 The Reverend Canon L. John Collins GENERAL SECRETARY: Telephone: 01-606 6123 Mrs Phyllis Altman Cables: DEFENDAID, London. E.CAM 7BX 4th December 1972 At a meeting of the Presidential Committee held on 25th November 1972, the following resolution was passed: "This meeting has heard with regret that Mr and Mrs Alex Hepple are resigning from DEPA. We wish to place on record our sincere appreciation of their sterling work in pro­ ducing the Information Service Manual and the pamphlet series, which have done so much to present the facts on Southern Africa clearly and accurately. We know that the high standards set by Mr and Mrs Hepple in their work will be an inspiration to those who take over from them." The Presidential Committee also voted a grant of £500 tax-free to both of you as an expression of their esteem and good wishes.— ^ ( / , John Collins President Mr and Mrs Alex Hepple DEPA Research 182 Ballards Lane London N3 2NB DEFA RESEARCH 182 Ballards Lane, London, N3 2NB Telephone 01-349 1931 6th. December 1972 Thank you very much for your letter of the 4th. December. We very much appreciate the expression of esteem from the Presidential Committee, The work we have done for the past six years was made possible by your own dedication to the cause of justice and racial harmony in Southern Africa. On our part we have been grateful for the opportunity to devote our energies to this cause. ¥e leave with great reluctance and only because we recognize our declining powers and the need to make way for others who have the capacity and the dedication to carry this section of the Fund to greater achieve­ ment. At the moment we are busy showing Hugh and Alan how we compile our records and prepare and produce the Service. We are sure they will put their utmost energies into making a success of the job, but we shall be available as long as they need our assistance. GIRLIE & ALEX. HEPPLE Canon the Rev, L, John Collins, International Defence and Aid Fund, 2, Amen Court, LOHDCN EC4 7BX International Defence and Aid Fund PRESIDENT: 2 AMEN COURT, LONDON, E.C.4 The Reverend Canon L. John Collins GENERAL SECRETARY: Telephone: 01-606 6123 Mrs Phyiiis Altman .9th January 1973. Cables: DEFENDAID, London, E.C.4M 7BX Dear Alex and Girlie, The enclosed little gift comes as a token of our good wishes for your retirement, and to express our appreciation of all you both did as Directors of DEEA. I do hope you are settling in your new home well: you must be happy to be near your family, and Cambridge must surely be an improvement on London. I am glad you have not gone too far off, and I look forward to keeping in touch with you from time to time, 'f Diana Joins me in sending every good wish to you both, Yours ever, L.John Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hepple, 19 Seymour Street, Cambridge, CB1 3DH DEFA RESEARCH Lane, London, N3 2NB Telephone 01-349 1931 23rd January 1973. x, Tried to get you on the phone this afternoon but got no reply. A couple of small points : (1) We have here the Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics for March and September 1972, but nothing for June 1972. Do you know if we received it, and if so where it is ? (2) The subscription for the RDM and Sunday Times (Jo'burg). I ’m in a real muddle about this. I sent off a draft for R49.42 to the CNA in f o 'burg shortly before Christmas, for 6 months' sub. Most unfortunately, the letter had two defects : it said 'with effect from 1st January 1972' instead of 1973; and it did not specify that it should be sent airmail - though that could be inferred from the amount of money sent and the period of the sub. In the event we have had nothing from Jo'burg yet. If we order it airmail, wd wurely ought to get it within 6 or 7 days. (If surface, a delay of 3 weeks is under­ standable). To complicate matters further, I see from the receipts that in fact Mrs. Hepple took out a sub­ scription on 19 April 1972 for the RDM for 12 months. If DEFA benefitted from your generosity for the past 8 months, we ought to thank you and make our own arrange­ ments as quickly as possible. If, on the other hand, DEFA paid for that sub. we ought to continue to get the RDM until April, or recover an equivalent amount twoards our sub. for the RDM for the current year Can you shed any light on all this ? You will probably be interested to hear that Hugh and I have approached M.B.Yengwa to write a pamphlet on education in South Africa, and Ros Ainslie to do one on farm labour, and both have agreed. We are also 0£i the verge of signing on Michael Holman to do a pampjLet on education in Rhodesia, and have obtained the services of a bright English economics graduate Pam Logie, who has been working closely with the Committee for Freedom in Mocambique, Angola and Guinea, to help us launch a new section of the Information Service dealing with Angola and Mocambique. Randolph Vigne's MS on Namibia has come in at last, but since I am only halfway through it I can say nothing about it, as yet. I'm surd you will see from L all this why I feel am sinking under an overpowering load, h and also why we are searching desperately for a first class secretary to assist Hugh and me in our work. Hope you are better and Mrs. Hepple well. Retirement ought soon to become a pleasure for you, and I imagine Cambridge an ideal place to do it in. Best wishes, and in haste - 3 - P.S. An additional query - arising out of my searching in the back room and learning at last exactly what we have and where everything is : You seem in the paste to have collected all the Government Gazettes together, plus the Annual Index, except for the following : a) Gazettes containing statutes, which are filed separately, in one or two files per year. (But this is not quite a complete collection for the period 1967 to 1972, or is it ?) b) Gazettes containing I.C. Agreements and Gazettes contain­ ing Wage -Determinations : both housed in drawers opposite your desk for thej.1971 and 1972, and in the back room for earlier years. c) A few special gazettes e.g. extraordinary issue's contain- ing regulations under the -^antu Education Act. Have I got the picture right, and is thdre any detail ±x you could add to it to help me maintain the system along the lines you've established ? 24th.