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United Nations

 Organization

Found in 113 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 04 Mar 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71A/24-25
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States] to WSC regarding the United Nations Declaration: he believes that the adherence of the French National Committee should be accepted whenever submitted but recommends consultation for further adherences from other governments and full consultation before the adherence of "Free Groups" and other organizations.

Dates: 04 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal telegrams.
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(Untitled), 18 Oct 1944

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138A/129-130
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Patrick Hannon [Conservative MP for the Moseley Division of Birmingham] assuring him that the government will not make a decision regarding its commitment to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference until the matter has been discussed in parliament and suggesting that he should discuss this matter with the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson, later 1st Lord Waverley]. Initialled. Annotated.

Dates: 18 Oct 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal Correspondence from WSC.
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(Untitled), 28 Sep 1944

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/172/56-57
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" informing him that he agrees with Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] that Dumbarton Oaks [Washington, United States] proposals be reconsidered in light of Soviet objections and suggesting that official publication of the plan be deferred, giving detailed reasons behind his thinking.

Dates: 28 Sep 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 28 Feb 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/212/45
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Dr Herbert Evatt [Australian Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs] to WSC marked "Secret" stating that the Australian representatives at both the San Francisco [United States] Conference and the Conference of the British Commonwealth prior to it will be Francis Forde [Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Army] and himself; and suggesting London rather than Canada as the location for the latter. Photocopy.

Dates: 28 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams. Photocopied file.
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(Untitled), 27 Mar 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/213A/53-55
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" expressing his concern at a "deterioration" in the Soviet attitude since [the] Yalta [Conference]: arguing that Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister] is stalling over Poland while the Lublin Committee consolidates its position; that if they fail to get a satisfactory solution to the Polish problems, then they risk losing all influence in Eastern Europe; that it is time to send a message from the two of...
Dates: 27 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 29 Mar 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/213A/70-71
Scope and Contents

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" passing on an interchange of messages between Marshal Stalin and himself on the absence of Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister] from the San Francisco [United States] Conference.

Dates: 29 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 21 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/84
Scope and Contents Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] (Washington [United States]) to WSC marked "Top Secret and Personal" reporting that Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister] has just reached Edmonton [Canada]; on difficulties over the San Francisco [United States] Conference; and stating that he will try to persuade Edward Stettinius [Secretary of State, United States] that they should not allow the Russians to veto their decision on the situation in the Netherlands....
Dates: 21 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/118-120
Scope and Contents Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] (Washington [United States]) to WSC marked "Top Secret and Personal" reporting on a meeting between Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister], Edward Stettinius [Secretary of State, United States] and himself on Poland: stating that Molotov asked for time to study the joint message sent by President Harry Truman and WSC to Marshal Stalin; describing discussions on the treaty [of mutual assistance] signed by the Soviet...
Dates: 23 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/121-122
Scope and Contents Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] (Washington [United States]) to WSC marked "Top Secret and Personal" describing a conversation with Edward Stettinius [Secretary of State, United States] on their meeting with Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister]: emphasising their fears over the San Francisco [United States] Conference in light of Molotov's attitude to Poland; indicating that President Harry Truman has agreed to speak directly to Molotov if...
Dates: 23 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/213A/118-119
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Prime Ministers and Acting Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa marked "Top Secret and Personal" asking for their endorsement and explaining the reasons behind the United States and the Soviet Union receiving three votes in the Assembly of the "new World Organisation".

Dates: 03 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 05 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/214/19-20
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] to WSC marked "Top Secret and Personal" arguing that White Russia and the Ukraine should be admitted to the Assembly [of the future world organisation] on the basis of their individual qualifications for membership rather than multiple Soviet representation; and that the assumption that the British Commonwealth will vote as a single entity needs to be dispelled, explaining why he thinks this is not the case.

Dates: 05 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), [Oct 1945]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/3/105
Scope and Contents Copy of a message from WSC to Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "personal and secret" about the text of a draft message for [Harry Truman, President of the United States, from Attlee] in which he questions what [Attlee] wishes the Americans to do about sharing information about atomic weapons with the Soviet Union and a reference to an "Act of Faith"; discusses the importance of security in world policy and the timing of a United Nations conference; WSC's agreement with President...
Dates: [Oct 1945]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Public and Political: General / Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on a number of immediate post-war issues (includes copies of wartime documents).
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"What the Conservatives will do: a shortened version of the Conservative and Unionist Party's policy: General Election, 1951", 1951

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/123/3
Scope and Contents Pamphlet detailing Conservative election policy under a number of headings: "Pillars of Peace" on measures to support the British empire and Commonwealth (including an Empire economic conference, imperial preference), the unity of the English speaking peoples, the United Nations and hopes that Soviet Russia will join it, and support for the rearmament programme; "Increase national output"; "Halt to nationalisation" including industrial measures, and the repeal of the Iron and Steel Act,...
Dates: 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Public and Political: General / Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party literature for the 1951 election.
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