| Description | Includes minutes of the Special (Jumelage 1970) Committee.
Scope and content
Subjects covered by the International Link Committee include:
- Arrangements for tours by sports teams and sports tournaments: boxing, football, swimming.
- Visits to Tower Hamlets by the people of Clichy (France), Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), Modling (Austria), Offenbach (Germany), Saint-Gillies (Belgium), Puteaux (France), Zemun (Yugoslavia) and Velletri (Italy).
- Youth and cultural exchanges.
- Celebration of Europe Day.
- Exhibitions of art and photography.
- Armistice Day commemorations held in Puteaux (France) in November 1968: the ceremony was addressed by Mr J. Cotter, a Tower Hamlets veteran of World War One, who wrote a detailed account of the visit to Puteaux and the ceremony, which is included here. |