Labour Party
Organization
Found in 235 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), [May] [1929]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/166/5
Scope and Contents
Leaflet issued by Conservative Central Office attacking the Labour Party's policy of nationalising the life assurance system.
Dates:
[May] [1929]
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.
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(Untitled), Jan 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/166/6-13
Scope and Contents
Circular letter from J P Hutchings, general secretary of the National Federation of Insurance Workers, to members of affiliated unions on the steps they should take to make known their opposition to the Labour Party's proposed nationalisation of the life assurance system. Report from the watch committee of the Federation on the action necessary to oppose the nationalisation proposals. Copies sent to Conservative candidates.
Dates:
Jan 1929
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.
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(Untitled), 23 Feb 1929 - 18 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/166/14-21
Scope and Contents
Letter from J P Hutchings, general secretary of the National Federation of Insurance Workers, to [John Davidson, later Lord Davidson] stating that the Labour Party has assured the Federation that there will be no legislation to nationalise life assurance until the views of policy holders and employees have been considered, and asking that a Conservative leaflet attacking the policy [see CHAR 2/166/5] be withdrawn, 18 May 1929 Correspondence between the Federation and the Labour Party on the...
Dates:
23 Feb 1929 - 18 May 1929
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.
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(Untitled), 06 Mar 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/70-88
Scope and Contents
"Hints for speakers" on "Socialists and safeguarding". Issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office.
Dates:
06 Mar 1930
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.
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(Untitled), 16 Jan 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/102-132
Scope and Contents
"Hints for speakers" on "Socialists and Safeguarding". Issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office.
Dates:
16 Jan 1930
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.
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(Untitled), [Mar] [1930]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/170
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
[Mar] [1930]
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.
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(Untitled), 31 Jan 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/180A/52-53
Scope and Contents
Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [owner of the Daily Mail, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Riviera Palace Hotel, Monte Carlo [Monaco]) to WSC predicting that WSC will become Prime Minister, expressing doubt whether the Conservatives could win a General Election, suggesting that [James] Ramsay MacDonald [Prime Minister] could have the same number of followers in the next parliament as in this, and stating that one of the conditions for his support of 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max...
Dates:
31 Jan 1931
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.
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(Untitled), Jan 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/184/23
Scope and Contents
Printed memorandum by Frederick Guest suggesting means by which the work of the National Government can continue after the next General Election.
Dates:
Jan 1933
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.
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(Untitled), 21 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/26
Scope and Contents
Letter from Harold Laski [Professor of political science at the University of London and member of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] (Devon Lodge, Addison Bridge Place, W14 [London]) to WSC informing him that he is enclosing a copy of an article he has written for the Chicago Sun about President Roosevelt [see CHAR 20/198A/ 22-24], and stating that he has become the Acting Chairman of the Labour Party, "So may I say that whatever remarks I may make in this official capacity are...
Dates:
21 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 21 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/28-29
Scope and Contents
Text of letter from Harold Laski [Professor of political science at the University of London and member of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] (Devon Lodge, Addison Bridge Place, W14 [London]) to WSC informing him that he is enclosing a copy of an article he has written for the Chicago Sun about President Roosevelt [see CHAR 20/198A/ 22-24], and stating that he has become the Acting Chairman of the Labour Party, "So may I say that whatever remarks I may make in this official...
Dates:
21 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 03 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/30
Scope and Contents
Letter from Harold Laski [Professor of political science at the University of London and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] (Devon Lodge, Addison Bridge Place, W14 [London]) to WSC marked "private and confidential" informing him of the decision taken at the last meeting of the Labour Party National Executive not to put a Labour Party candidate in the field against him "not because we thought he might win, but because, on personal grounds, we did not wish to add , even...
Dates:
03 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 03 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/31-32
Scope and Contents
Text of letter from Harold Laski [Professor of political science at the University of London and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] (Devon Lodge, Addison Bridge Place, W14 [London]) to WSC marked "private and confidential" informing him of the decision taken at the last meeting of the Labour Party National Executive not to put a Labour Party candidate in the field against him "not because we thought he might win, but because, on personal grounds, we did not wish to add...
Dates:
03 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 17 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/33
Scope and Contents
Note by WSC for Private Office: "I do not know on what official grounds Mr Laski [Harold Laski, Professor of political science at the University of London and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] writes to me. I have no personal relations with him".
Dates:
17 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 13 Oct 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/114
Scope and Contents
Letter from "Archie" [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso, Leader, Liberal Parliamentary Party] (Dalnawillan, Altnabreac, Caithness [Scotland]), to WSC, regretting that he is unable to accept WSC's dinner invitation. He comments on his admiration for WSC's speeches, and his delight at seeing WSC's "stock soaring!", but thinks that "a November election would be a rotten trick to play", particularly unfair on the Labour Party and also the Liberals, as they have been supporting the...
Dates:
13 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 05 Nov 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/238/19-22
Scope and Contents
Letter from Cecil L'Estrange Malone, Phene Street, Chelsea SW3 to WSC, enclosing cuttings from the Northampton Chronicle and Echo, on his decision not to stand as Labour candidate for Northampton in the forthcoming General Election, because of his disagreement with the Party's foreign policy.
Dates:
05 Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), [1928]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/163/3-4
Scope and Contents
Booklet attacking the records of the so-called moderate Socialists, James Ramsay Macdonald, J H Thomas, Philip Snowden [later Lord Snowden] and John Clynes.
Dates:
[1928]
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.
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(Untitled), [1928]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/163/6
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet: "Potted biographies: a dictionary of anti-national biography". Contains hostile biographies of leading Socialists. Sent with CHAR 2/163/5.
Dates:
[1928]
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.
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(Untitled), 18 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/23-25
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Clement Attlee [Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council, leader of the Labour Party] proposing a continuation of the coalition until a decisive victory has been gained over Japan [carbon].
Dates:
18 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 31 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/67-69
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] marked "private" offering him facilities in the Cabinet Office to see papers on the main developments in foreign affairs and strategy, as well as freedom of map room [carbon].
Dates:
31 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/155-160
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] expressing his reservations about the powers possessed by the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party and quoting recent remarks made by the chairman, Harold Laski, at Scunthorpe [Lincolnshire], Croydon [Surrey], Watford [Hertfordshire], Welwyn Garden City [Hertfordshire] and Enfield [Middlesex] refusing to accept continuity of policy in foreign affairs [carbon].
Dates:
02 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 03 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/161-163
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] thanking him for his letter which "leaves a number of very important points unanswered" and commenting on the Labour Party constitution and the powers of the Party Conference and National Executive Committee [carbon].
Dates:
03 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 13 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/54-55
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir Edward Cadogan [Conservative MP for Bolton] (Carlton Club) to WSC expressing his gratitude to WSC on the eve of the dissolution of the House of Commons: states how proud he has been to serve under WSC's leadership "in the most memorable Parliament of all time"; comments on the decision of the Socialists to terminate the Coalition and states that the "issues at present are too grave to become the sport of party politics"; expresses the hope that WSC will long be spared "not...
Dates:
13 Jun 1945
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.
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(Untitled), 13 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/56
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir Edward Cadogan [Conservative MP for Bolton] (Carlton Club) to WSC expressing his gratitude to WSC on the eve of the dissolution of the House of Commons: states how proud he has been to serve under WSC's leadership "in the most memorable Parliament of all time"; comments on the decision of the Socialists to terminate the Coalition and states that the "issues at present are too grave to become the sport of party politics"; expresses the hope that WSC will long be spared "not...
Dates:
13 Jun 1945
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.
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(Untitled), [23] [May] [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/4
Scope and Contents
Hand-written note from ? Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] to WSC asking whether [Joseph] Davies should be allowed to contact "[Ernest] Bevin & Co". Annotated by WSC in red, "Certainly not, repeat not nor anyone else" and dated and initialled. Also a note from Kathleen Hill to Private Office instructing them to find out if Mr [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] is aware of this.
Dates:
[23] [May] [1945]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 16 Feb 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/223/32
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to Chief Whip [James Stuart] marked "Advance Copy", "From: Argonaut", "Jason 567", and "Personal and private" on his conditions for speaking in a [House of Commons] debate [on the Yalta Conference] and commenting on Conservative opponents to government policy on Poland and the Labour Party's attitude to events in Greece.
Dates:
16 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open