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Literary: "Short Biographies": "American Impressions", copy., 1929 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/592
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Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Prohibition" on the fall of drunkenness in Britain because of taxation and regulation and the rise of consumption and crime in the United States; "The American Mind and Ours" on the importance of business at the expense of politics in the United States and the differences in American and British attitudes; "Industrial Conditions in America"; "Vastness of American Industry"; "Fleets of Britain and America"; "World's...
Dates:
1929 - 1937
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Literary: "Short Biographies": "American Impressions": proofs., 1929 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/593
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Proofs of the following articles by WSC: "The American Mind and Ours" on the importance of business at the expense of politics in the United States and the differences in American and British attitudes; "The United States of Europe" on a Europe without trade barriers and the benefits of solidarity; "Canada's Cornfields"; "Hollywood"; "Across Canada"; "Prohibition in Practice"; "California"; "Battles of Virginia" on Civil War sites; "Mr Macdonald's Reception" on good relations between Britain...
Dates:
1929 - 1937
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Literary: "Short Biographies": proofs 2., 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/591
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Proofs of the following articles by WSC: an untitled article on the bad effects of independence for the Philippines; "Edward VIII" on Hector Bolitho's book on Edward, [Edward, Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and Edward VIII]; "The Abuse of the Dole" on the political importance of the unemployment figures and the abuse of the unemployment insurance system; "The United States of Europe" on a Europe without trade barriers and the benefits of solidarity; "Unlucky Alfonso" on...
Dates:
1930 - 1937
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Sa - Sk., 06 Apr 1946 - 26 Oct 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/155
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Correspondents include: F Heiser, Principal, St Aidan's College, Birkenhead [Liverpool]; Sir Edward Bridges [Permanent Secretary, Treasury] on WSC's salary; Frank Salisbury on his portrait of WSC; CSC; "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne] on subjects including the death of his father (5); Sir Andrew Salter, asking for WSC's opinion on his book ["Personality in Politics"] and on the death of former United States Ambassador to Britain, John Winant (3); 1st Lord Samuel,...
Dates:
06 Apr 1946 - 26 Oct 1948
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(Untitled), 02 Oct 1943 - 31 Oct 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/4
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1943.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Lord Louis Mountbatten [Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob and Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including...
Dates:
02 Oct 1943 - 31 Oct 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.