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Opinion on Palestine, c 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/45
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Opinion by HL on whether the dissolution of the League of Nations and the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations affected the validity of Article 18 of the Mandate for Palestine.
Dates:
c 1947
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Opinion on Palestine and the United Nations, 1947-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/43
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Manuscript draft of HL's Opinion, written for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, on whether a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly of the United Nations was necessary for a recommendation on the future government of Palestine and whether the Assembly had legal competence to partition Palestine.
Dates:
1947-10
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Opinion on Palestine and the United Nations, 1947-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/44
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Typescript of HL's Opinion, written for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, on whether a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly of the United Nations was necessary for a recommendation on the future government of Palestine and whether the Assembly had legal competence to partition Palestine. Includes a telegram from Abba Eban [Jewish Agency for Palestine, earlier Aubrey Eban] asking for the Opinion.
Dates:
1947-10
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Philip Noel-Baker Associated
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR AS
Dates:
1912 - 2022
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Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on a number of immediate post-war issues (includes copies of wartime documents)., Jan 1940 - Oct 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/3
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Correspondents include: Prime Minister Clement Attlee (15) on subjects including questions in Parliament about raw materials for atomic weapons and secret agreements with Belgium, Holland and Brazil, and also on decorations for wartime service ; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley] (2); Norman Tucker [Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton]; Robert Brand [Representative of HM Treasury in Washington, United States] (2); Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to...
Dates:
Jan 1940 - Oct 1945
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on Palestine., Aug 1946 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/46A-B
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Correspondents include: Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Head of Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat and Joint Director, Conservative Research Department] (3); Paul Beards [Assistant Private Secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee]; Clement Attlee; John Addis [Junior Private Secretary to Attlee]; Major Henry Legge-Bourke; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (2); Marcus Sieff (8); James de Rothschild; Duncan Sandys; Walter Elliot (2); Leo...
Dates:
Aug 1946 - Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C-D., Aug 1949 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/95A-B
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Correspondents include: 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence], George [Hubback], Metropolitan of India and Bishop of Calcutta (3), and Desmond Crawley (High Commission, Calcutta), on Anglo-Indians educating their children in the UK; 1st Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson, Chairman] of the Carlton Club (2); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (5); Clifford Hood, President, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation; Robert...
Dates:
Aug 1949 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence, M., Aug 1956 - Oct 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/510A-B
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Correspondents include: [Jesse] Dickson Mabon, MP; John McGovern, MP; Brigadier Sir Harry Mackson, MP (4) on subjects including a position as Governor; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], Prime Minister, on the publication of correspondence between WSC and President Roosevelt and documents relating to the Potsdam conference [Berlin, Germany], the possible location of the United Nations headquarters in Berlin [Germany] and discussions with the United States regarding the atomic bomb...
Dates:
Aug 1956 - Oct 1964
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence R-Z., Dec 1945 - Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/8A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir David Robertson on industrial affairs; Randolph Churchill and John Dugdale on Soviet attitudes; 1st Lord Rankeillour [earlier James Hope] and Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for India] on Indian affairs; Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office (4); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office [from July 1946] (4); James Stuart [Chief...
Dates:
Dec 1945 - Dec 1946
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence S., Apr 1946 - Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/71A-B
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Correspondents include: "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne] (3); R A Butler (2); Arthur Bryant; Douglas Savory; Aubrey Halford [later Aubrey Halford-MacLeod, Principal Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on the use of excerpts from WSC's memoirs in a war crimes trial; Sir Arthur Young [Scottish Unionist Whip] on Scottish Unionist resolutions; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Head of Conservative...
Dates:
Apr 1946 - Dec 1948
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence T-Z., Nov 1947 - Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/72A-B
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Correspondents include: Iain MacLeod, Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat, on the position of graduate teachers (2); Emanuel Shinwell, Secretary of State for War, (2) and Arthur Henderson [later Lord Rowley], Secretary of State for Air, (2) on recruitment for service auxiliaries and reserves; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice- Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (2); Colin Thornton-Kemsley (2); Reginald Maudling; 6th Lord De L'Isle and Dudley [earlier William Sidney,...
Dates:
Nov 1947 - Dec 1948
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence T-Z., Jan 1949 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/86A-B
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Correspondents include: Ernest Taylor; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] on Ivor Thomas [later Ivor Bulmer-Thomas]; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (4); Sir Herbert Thompson on the Indian civil service and police; R Robinson, Lord Mayor of Cardiff, on matters including the Tonypandy riots [Glamorgan, Wales] and naming a road after WSC (7); representatives of the Conservative Research Department...
Dates:
Jan 1949 - Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Political: Council of Europe correspondence and papers., Nov 1948 - Jul 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/75A-B
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Correspondents include: Laurence Pumphrey (2), and Paul Osmond [Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister]; Prime Minister Clement Attlee (7); Duncan Sandys (3); John Maclay [later 1st Lord Muirshiel]; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Head of Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat and Joint Director, Conservative Research Department]; Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council (9); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (2); William Whiteley...
Dates:
Nov 1948 - Jul 1950
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with and on Lord Cherwell., 04 Jan 1954 - 08 Jul 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/214
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Correspondents include: "C", 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] on subjects including the Labour Party standing as the anti-hydrogen bomb party, traffic problems in Oxford and radio propaganda in the Middle East (10); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Party, on giving a ministerial lead in public relations; Cameron Cobbold [Governor], Bank of England; Duncan Sandys, Minister of Housing and Local Government; Sir Edwin Plowden [Chairman],...
Dates:
04 Jan 1954 - 08 Jul 1958
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with President Eisenhower., 04 Feb 1952 - 22 Aug 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/217
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Correspondence between WSC and Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States, on subjects including the 4-Power Summit at Geneva, American foreign policy, particularly on the Far East, former relations between Eisenhower and WSC, the declassification of war records, the defence of Formosa [later Taiwan], a medallion for WSC's 81st birthday, Western unity, Eisenhower's health, his relations with Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], atomic...
Dates:
04 Feb 1952 - 22 Aug 1959
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Bruges, Brussels, Ciergnon [Belgium] (September 1946)., 04 Jul 1946 - 15 Nov 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/249
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Alan Kirk, United States Ambassador to Belgium, on arrangements for the visit (2); Averell Harriman [United States Ambassador to Britain]; Andre de Staercke, Secretary to Prince Charles, Regent of Belgium, on arrangements for the visit, and visitors for WSC (6). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow], Elizabeth Gilliatt and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], WSC's secretaries.Other subjects...
Dates:
04 Jul 1946 - 15 Nov 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States (January - March 1946) L - M., 14 May 1945 - 25 Apr 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/228
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Fiorello LaGuardia, outgoing Mayor of New York (2); Frederick Leathers [Director, William Cory and Son Limited] on WSC's journey; 1st Lord Leathers [Minister of War Transport] on WSC's journey (2); Harold Peat, offering WSC a lecture tour (4); Clark Getts, offering WSC a lecture tour (4); Sol Hurok, offering WSC a lecture tour; [Marie-Rene] Alexis Leger ["St John Perse"]; Walter Lippmann (2); Clare Luce; Henry Luce [publisher, Time and Life] on a dinner...
Dates:
14 May 1945 - 25 Apr 1946
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Special correspondence: Myron Taylor, 1942-07 - 1955-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/2/27
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Correspondence with Taylor on subjects including: Anglo-American economic relations, particularly Imperial Preference; the death of King George VI; British policy in the Middle East; the future of Korea; the chances of European union, particularly relating to the attitude of the Soviet Union; plans for an international organization for peace and security; LSA's views on the future of the Pacific.
Other correspondents include: Dwight D Eisenhower, President of the United States and...
Dates:
1942-07 - 1955-02
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Speeches: General Election Miscellanea., Oct 1949 - Feb 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/29A-C
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Includes: speech notes and extracts from various speeches made by WSC during the 1950 General Election campaign on subjects including nationalisation, a statement made by [Walter] Higgs in New Zealand, food and petrol rationing, conscription and National Service, the coal and oil industries and home owning; newspaper cuttings; extracts of earlier speeches made by WSC; suggestions for speeches from various individuals including Randolph Churchill on the B B C and a party political broadcast,...
Dates:
Oct 1949 - Feb 1950
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Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 26 Feb 1949 - 29 Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/38A-C
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Danish proofs for WSC's speeches (9 - 11 October, Copenhagen [Denmark]). Also includes letter from Paul Monrad, publisher of the speeches in Denmark.Speech notes for WSC's speech (10 October, Copenhagen University) entitled "Honorary Degree Conferment" (of WSC's honorary doctorate of philosophy) on Britain's debt to the ancient Danes, WSC's own perseverance after the academic failures of his youth, the privilege of university education, the balance between sciences and arts, the advantages...
Dates:
26 Feb 1949 - 29 Dec 1950
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Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes, Hansard and source material., 12 Jul 1954 - 05 Sep 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/55A-B
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Speech notes and copies of Hansard for WSC's speech (12 July, House of Commons) entitled "Visit to the United States and Canada" on subjects including: WSC's concern at the lack of information given by the United States on their hydrogen bomb tests; his visit with Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, for personal talks with Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States; hopes for more open relations in future; his reception in Canada; Britain's common aims with the...
Dates:
12 Jul 1954 - 05 Sep 1954
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Speeches: Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 08 Jan 1957 - 06 Nov 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/61A-C
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Speech notes for WSC's speech (14 January, meeting of constituency branch chairmen, 28 Hyde Park Gate) on subjects including: the work done in the constituencies; the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] as Prime Minister; the decision by the United States to play a greater part in the Middle East and their relations with Britain; emergency steps to strengthen the economy; the need to support the new government. Source material includes draft notes by Anthony Montague Browne...
Dates:
08 Jan 1957 - 06 Nov 1957
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Speeches: speech notes., 13 Jan 1946 - 29 Apr 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/4A-E
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Speech notes for WSC's address to personnel on board the R M S Queen Elizabeth (13 January) in which he reviews the war and links between the United Kingdom and Canada.Speech notes for WSC's speech of thanks (26 February, University of Miami, United States) on receiving an honorary law degree in which he discusses education. Includes the phrase "I am surprised that in my later life I should have become so experienced in taking degrees, when, as a school boy, I was so bad at passing...
Dates:
13 Jan 1946 - 29 Apr 1946
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Speeches: speech notes., 03 May 1946 - 31 May 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/5A-B
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Newscutting reporting WSC's speech (3 May, Dorchester Hotel, London) at the Jubilee dinner celebrating 50 years of the Daily Mail, and reporting speeches delivered by 2nd Lord Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth] Chairman of the Daily Mail, 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken], 1st Lord Tedder and G Ward Price.Speech notes for WSC's speech of thanks (7 May) on receiving the freedom of Westminster entitled "The British Commonwealth" including: his standing for election in Westminster...
Dates:
03 May 1946 - 31 May 1946
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Speeches: speech notes., 20 Apr 1946 - 21 Sep 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/8A-C
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Speech notes and Hansard report of WSC's speech (1 August, House of Commons) on Palestine on subjects including: his conviction that there should be a Jewish national home in Palestine; the success which followed the 1922 [Balfour] declaration; the opinions of T E Lawrence [T E Shaw, "Lawrence of Arabia"] about the treatment of the Arabs; the repatriation of the Jews in Europe; and the decision by the United States not to support Zionism policy. Source material includes: an extract from a...
Dates:
20 Apr 1946 - 21 Sep 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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