Liberal Party
Found in 458 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 19 Jan 1924
Letter from Daniel Noel (Noel Brothers, enamelled ware and general hardware merchants, 51 High Street, Kingsland, [London]) to WSC expressing support, as a lifelong Liberal, for his anti-Socialist movement and asserting that most rank and file Liberals do not support the stance adopted by [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith, and David Lloyd George].
(Untitled), [18] [Jan] [1924]
Letter from H T Pearson to [WSC] congratulating him on his published letter [advocating the passage of an anti-Socialist address to the Crown], criticising the Liberals for placing the Socialists in power, having gained the votes of the "poor struggling business man" and regretting that WSC was not returned for West Leicester.
(Untitled), 31 Oct 1924
(Untitled), 06 Nov 1924
Letter from George Lambert [later Lord Lambert] (34 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, [London]) to WSC congratulating him and the country on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer and arguing that had he been appointed to that office by David Lloyd George, Lloyd George "would not now have been niggling with the remnant of a party that [Herbert] Asquith and he have destroyed.".
(Untitled), 07 Nov 1924
(Untitled), 10 Nov 1924
Letter from Frederick Kellaway (16 Eliot Park, Lewisham, [London]) to WSC recalling their time working together at the Ministry of Munitions, congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, asserting that the Liberals deserved their "punishment" at the polls for putting Labour into office, mentioning that for the first time in his life he worked and voted for a Conservative candidate, and hoping that the country is free from experiments in nationalisation.
(Untitled), 24 Jul 1926
Letter from Lady Oxford and Asquith [earlier Margot Asquith] (44 Bedford Square, [London]) to WSC on: her approval of his policy on war debts to the United States; her request to him to write to [st Lord Oxford and Asquith, earlier Herbert Asquith] to cheer him up; the ignorance of the Liberal rank and file over party unity; David Lloyd George's leaning to the Labour Party and his betrayal of Lord Oxford and Asquith.
(Untitled), 30 May 1926
Edition of "Reynolds's Illustrated News" including article on WSC's supposed attempts to split the Liberal Party.
(Untitled), 25 May 1927
Letter from Frederick Guest (7 Aldford Street, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/152/17-22 and arguing that Liberals who have supported the Government should be officially informed that they will not be opposed by Conservatives at the next general election and that the Conservative programme will not include items which these Liberals could not support.
(Untitled), 24 May 1927
"Memorandum on the possibility of reserving certain constituencies at the next election for Liberals pledged to support a Conservative government." By Frederick Guest. Sent with CHAR 2/152/16.
(Untitled), 27 May 1927
Letter from WSC (Treasury Chambers) to Edward Spears attacking trade union involvement in politics, Bolshevik interference in British affairs and the failure of the Liberals to give a decisive lead on these] issues. Annotated typescript draft. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/152/46-54.
(Untitled), 02 Jun 1927
Letter from Edward Spears (8 Little College Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC attributing his defeat [in the Bosworth Division of Leicestershire] to Liberal claims that a vote for them was the only means of keeping the Socialist out, noting the increasing extremism of Labour supporters in the constituency and thanking WSC for his letter of support.
(Untitled), 22 Jun 1927
(Untitled), [1927]
Letter from [WSC] to Frederick Guest arguing that David Lloyd George's campaign fund is being used to split the anti-Socialist vote and arguing that the fund should be placed in the hands of trustees "representing a definite political party on a broad and public basis".
(Untitled), 28 May 1928
(Untitled), 11 Jun 1928
(Untitled), 29 Nov 1928
Letter from Frederick Guest (7 Aldford Street, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC complaining about Conservative candidates standing in the constituencies of right-wing Liberals, announcing that he is going to assess the potential for air routes from the Cape to Cairo and expressing confidence that he will hold his own seat in Bristol.
(Untitled), 01 Jun 1929
Letter from Lord Londonderry (Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees, [County Durham]) to WSC congratulating him on his return to parliament, blaming the Liberals for damaging the prospects of young Conservatives such as Harold Macmillan, and regretting that WSC and CSC will not be attending his dinner because they have had an invitation from the Prince of Wales [later Edward VIII].
(Untitled), 04 Jun 1929
Letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later Lord Thurso] (Thurso Castle, Thurso, [Caithness, Scotland] to WSC arguing that the Labour Party will remain united in government unless electoral reform is introduced to reinfranchise Liberal voters, which will strengthen the position of moderate Socialists and cause them to split from their extremist colleagues.
(Untitled), 02 May 1929
Cutting from the "Times": speech in the Spen Valley Division [of Yorkshire] by Sir John Simon [later Lord Simon] on Liberal policy .
(Untitled), Jun 1927
Programme of the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge.
(Untitled), [1930]
"Safeguarding and prices. Liberal lies answered." Published by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.
(Untitled), [Mar] [1930]
Newspaper cutting: report of moves towards an alliance between the Liberal and Labour parties and the removal of the left-wing group from the Labour Party.
(Untitled), Jan 1933
Printed memorandum by Frederick Guest suggesting means by which the work of the National Government can continue after the next General Election.
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1935
Letter from 8th Duke of Atholl [earlier Lord Tullibardine] (98 Elm Park Gardens [London]) to WSC on the political situation in East Perthshire [Scotland] between the outgoing Conservative MP, Lord Scone and the Liberal activist and possible candidate Francis Norie-Miller, and the bad effect it would have, both on Randolph Churchill and "Kitty" [Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, and MP for Kinross and Western] if Randolph Churchill also stood as a candidate.