Free Trade

Historical Documents and Analysis on Free Trade. Includes: 3 Photocopies of appendicies on the North Atlantic treaty (II) -which has both a full appendix as well as a printed cover - and the Brussels treaty (III) Newspaper article with handwritten date, 'The Ruhr Authority: Effect of Dismantling on German Cooperation', November 1949 Photocopy of legal document relating to the International Authority for the Ruhr, annoteted by Nicoll, post 1949 Photocopy of legal article relating to the abolition of the state of Prussia Extracts from a draft of historic research 'The Board of Trade in Trade Negotiations', with chapter II being called 'The Scope and History of the Board', post 1953 Printed online article on Frank N.D. Buchman (1878-1961), 2005 Printout of online article from antiwar.com by Gregory Bresiger, 'Trade Trumps War: How Two Ancient Enemies Turned Away from More Bloodshed. More Trade or More Forts?', 2005 Printout of online transcript of a speech by Richard Cobden, delivered in January, 1846, 'Free Trade with All Nations', 2004 printout of online typed transcript on Richard Cobden by Giuseppe Fagnani from 1865, printed 2004 Handwritten notes by Nicoll Letter from Penelope Sellwood to Helen Nicoll, with notes written on the back by Nicoll, 2005 Printouts of online page from wikisearch.net on congress of Troppau and Congress of Laibach, 2005 Printouts of online Wikipedia article on the Curzon Line, 2003 Typed extract from The Economist on globalisation and nationalism, original article published October 1930 Printout of online encyclopedia.com article on Hanseatic League, July 2005 Printour of online Wikipedia article on Hanseatic League, July 2005 Photocopy on articles on the Future of Europe Lecture notes 'Integration Theory', with supplementary and Bibliography, annotated by Nicoll Lecture notes, numbered as two, 'GMU Summer 1994', pages 1, 2 and 5, annoteted by Nicoll, 1994 Printout of onine articles from allrefer.com 'Lotharingia, French History', 'Mersen, Treaty of, German History', 'Verdun, Treaty of, Treaties and Alliances' 2004 Printout of online article from encyclopedia.com 'Charles II', 2004 Article on the life of Roger Mellor Makins (1904-1996) by Walter Bird, 1962, printed 2004 Photocopy of article in French, 1997 Printout of online article by Benjamin J. Cohen, 'Monetary Unions', 2005 Printout of aricle on James Arthur Salter (1881-1975), 2004 Printout of newspaper clippings, glued to paper, entitled 'Appendix Printout of article on Cecil Weir (1890-1960), 2004 BBC History magazine cutting of article by Gregor Dallas, 'The War that Never Ended', 2005 printouts of 2 online articles on Zollverein, 2004

Born in Dundee, Sir William Nicoll was an only child. Growing up in a tenement, his father was a joiner. He attended Morgan Academy, then won a scholarship to University College, Dundee, which was then part of the University of St Andrews.
Nicoll passed the civil service exams and moved to London in 1949 to join the Board of Trade. Married Helen Morison in 1954, at the same time he became Editor of The Reel, a post he held in 1954 and 1955. The next year he was posted to Calcutta as trade commissioner, cutting short his editorship. Within ten years he had risen to become private secretary to Douglas Jay, the Labour heavyweight whom Harold Wilson had appointed president of the Board of Trade.
From there Nicoll was seconded to the Foreign Office and served 20 years as one of the UK's senior men in Brussels. He became familiar with the French language and had a narrow escape from an IRA letter bomb while there.
Nicoll rose to become Director General of the Council of the European Communities, and was knighted in 1992. In retirement, he lectured, edited the European Business Journal, wrote books on the European Union and advised candidate countries hoping to join it.
Sir William was a lifelong teetotaller, and keen Scottish country dancer.

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Born in Dundee, Sir William Nicoll was an only child. Growing up in a tenement, his father was a joiner. He attended Morgan Academy, then won a scholarship to University College, Dundee, which was then part of the University of St Andrews.
Nicoll passed the civil service exams and moved to London in 1949 to join the Board of Trade. Married Helen Morison in 1954, at the same time he became Editor of The Reel, a post he held in 1954 and 1955. The next year he was posted to Calcutta as trade commissioner, cutting short his editorship. Within ten years he had risen to become private secretary to Douglas Jay, the Labour heavyweight whom Harold Wilson had appointed president of the Board of Trade.
From there Nicoll was seconded to the Foreign Office and served 20 years as one of the UK's senior men in Brussels. He became familiar with the French language and had a narrow escape from an IRA letter bomb while there.
Nicoll rose to become Director General of the Council of the European Communities, and was knighted in 1992. In retirement, he lectured, edited the European Business Journal, wrote books on the European Union and advised candidate countries hoping to join it.
Sir William was a lifelong teetotaller, and keen Scottish country dancer.

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