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Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1874 - 1965

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

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Personal: Business correspondence A-F., Nov 1945 - Mar 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/18
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of Nicholl, Manisty and Few [WSC's solicitors] (24) and J C Tweed [an Irish solicitor] (4) on subjects including WSC selling the Carnlough [Antrim, Ulster, Ireland] estate to 13th Lord Antrim [earlier Randall McDonnell]; representatives of Berry Brothers and Rudd Limited on WSC's orders for champagne and whisky (9); 1st Lord Sandford [earlier Sir Albert Edmondson]; Sir William Rootes (2) and Christopher Soames on providing cars; Ben Russell, [Director]...
Dates: Nov 1945 - Mar 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - Churchill, Lady C (CSC)., 26 Oct 1951 - Apr 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/50A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough] on her memoirs, "The Glitter and the Gold", including her criticism of Henry Asquith [1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and Margot Asquith [Margot, Lady Oxford and Asquith] (9); Cass Canfield, Chairman of Harper and Brothers, Publishers (2); Sarah Beauchamp, "Mule" [earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley], on subjects including Oscar Nemon's sculpture of WSC, the death of Queen Mary...
Dates: 26 Oct 1951 - Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - L., 16 Oct 1943 - 16 Sep 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/41
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: George Spencer-Churchill, on subjects including WSC's writing and the political situation (3); Lady Caroline Spencer-Churchill; Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill; CSC on subjects including WSC's holiday at Lake Como [Italy], his painting, Chartwell [Kent], Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames], and the Council of Foreign Ministers (18); Horatia Seymour; Mary Churchill on her posting to Britain; John S Churchill (3); Pamela Digby [earlier Pamela Churchill, later Pamela...
Dates: 16 Oct 1943 - 16 Sep 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Family etc.: Fall, London., 16 Nov 1960 - 12 Dec 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/61
Scope and Contents Letters of sympathy on WSC's back injury, correspondents including: Martin Redmayne [Government Chief Whip]; Harold Macmillan [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Stockton]; Clare Sheridan; Katsumi Ohno, Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain; Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaya [later Malaysia]; Lord Hailes [earlier Patrick Buchan-Hepburn] and Diana, Lady Hailes [earlier Diana Buchan-Hepburn]; Bernard Baruch; Al-Haj Nawab, Sir Sadiq Mohammad, Ameer of Bahawalpur [Pakistan]; Aristotle...
Dates: 16 Nov 1960 - 12 Dec 1960
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Family etc.: Fall, South of France: Letters and telegrams., 28 Jun 1962 - 29 Aug 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/63A-B
Scope and Contents Letters of sympathy on WSC's fall, correspondents including: "Betty" Admiral Harold Stark (2); "Monty" [1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein]; CSC; Christopher Dunn; Randolph Churchill; Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the House of Commons; Odette Pol Roger (2); Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, then Sarah Beauchamp] (2) and 23rd Lord Audley [earlier Thomas Tuchet-Jesson]; Sir Hugh Tudor; Queen Elizabeth II; 2nd Lord Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth]; Harold...
Dates: 28 Jun 1962 - 29 Aug 1962
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Family etc.: Fall, South of France: Medical and Press., 28 Jun 1962 - 27 Dec 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/62
Scope and Contents Letters of sympathy on WSC's fall and letters of thanks to and from doctors and hospital staff, correspondents including: Professor Herbert Seddon, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (5); Robert Edwards, Editor, Evening Citizen; Doctor Evan Bedford, Consultant in Cardiology to the Army (2); Doctor Campbell Golding (2); Geoffrey Hardy-Roberts, Secretary-Superintendent, Middlesex Hospital (2); Philip Newman [Consulting Orthopaedic Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital]; Robert MacKenna [Consulting...
Dates: 28 Jun 1962 - 27 Dec 1962
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Family etc.: Lord and Lady Moran, C P Wilson, Geoffrey and John Wilson., 19 Nov 1951 - 21 Jul 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/54
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Correspondents include: Dorothy, Lady Moran [earlier Dorothy Wilson] (4); 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson, Consulting Physician, St Mary's Hospital] on subjects including WSC's health (20); Edward Percy Smith; Charles Wilson [Senior Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, the Middlesex Hospital]; Geoffrey Wilson; John Wilson [later 2nd Lord Moran]; Sir George Nelson [later 1st Lord Nelson of Stafford], Chairman, the English Electric Company Limited.

Dates: 19 Nov 1951 - 21 Jul 1959
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Family: Illness, South of France., 19 Feb 1958 - 27 Mar 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/60
Scope and Contents Letters of sympathy on WSC's illness, correspondents including: Herbert Evatt, Leader of the Opposition, Australia; Winston Churchill; Duncan Sandys; Paul-Henri Spaak [Secretary-General, NATO]; Alan Hodge; Bernard Baruch (2); Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] and Dorothy Macmillan; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey]; Pamela, Lady Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden]; June Churchill and Arabella Churchill; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and...
Dates: 19 Feb 1958 - 27 Mar 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Visits and Invitations: Cruises in Yacht Christina., Feb 1961 - Jul 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/154
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: John Wyndham [later 1st Lord Egremont and 6th Lord Leconfield], Private Secretary to Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton, Prime Minister]; 1st Lord Hailes [earlier Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, Governor General and Commander in Chief of the West Indies] (3); Peggy Ashcroft requesting permission to quote from WSC's speeches; Ian Turbott, Administrator of Antigua; CSC on her health (4); Aristotle Onassis on the dates and itinerary of the cruises (2); "Nonie" [Noel...
Dates: Feb 1961 - Jul 1963
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Visits and Invitations: France: C - G., Sep 1955 - Sep 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/146
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: E Howitt, Traffic Manager of Cable and Wireless Limited, on arrangements for WSC to send telegrams from France (4); Raymond Gramaglia, Mayor of Cap d'Ail [France] on subjects including a request for WSC to present the Freedom of the City to Princess Grace [earlier Grace Kelly] (7); T Cobby (7) and W White (8) of the Automobile Association on arrangements to transport WSC's cars to France; Colin Coote, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post; Daisy,...
Dates: Sep 1955 - Sep 1961
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Visits and Invitations: France: H - Le., Sep 1955 - Apr 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/147
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Dr Jacques Vialle on adjustments to WSC's hearing aid (6); A Larenque of the Hotel du Helder on accommodation for members of WSC's staff (11); J Broc, General Manager of the Hotel de Paris (15) on accommodation for WSC and CSC; Enid, Lady Kenmare; and Alvide Lees-Milne with a photograph of Thomas Molesworth-Bridges.Other subjects covered by the file include: arrangements for supplies of Pol Roger champagne and requests for press photographs.Also includes: bills for...
Dates: Sep 1955 - Apr 1963
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Visits and invitations: France: R - S., Aug 1955 - Apr 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/149
Scope and Contents Correspondents includes: the staff of Prince Ranier III inviting WSC to various social occasions; Louis Lottier, Mayor of Roquebrune; Celia Sandys; "Willie" [William] Sax regarding painting with WSC (5); Captain Arthur Soames; Mario Profeta (13) and Frederick Smith (3), chauffeurs to WSC; and Sergeant Murray.Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC], Doreen Pugh [Secretary to WSC], and Gillian Maturin [Secretary to WSC]; copies...
Dates: Aug 1955 - Apr 1963
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence., 31 Jan 1928 - 06 Dec 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/5
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (11); George Tryon [Minister of Pensions] (2).Subjects include: the Drug Protection Bill; WSC's illness; a pension query from one of WSC's constituents; traffic noise; receiving honours from Poland; work permits; greyhound racing; constituency business.

Dates: 31 Jan 1928 - 06 Dec 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence, mainly with Alderman Donald Forbes, Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford [1953-54] and Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association [from 1956]., Sep 1951 - May 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/14
Scope and Contents Other correspondents include: Frederick Bishop [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; Hugh Ellis-Rees (War Office) (2). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Lettice Marston (Lettice Shillingford), Joan Prideaux, and Anthony Montague Browne; CSC (President of Woodford Conservative Association).Subjects include: honouring the late Sir James Hawkey [former constituency chairman] and Stuart Mallinson; the 1951...
Dates: Sep 1951 - May 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open (folios 14-24 were opened in 2022).
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence, mainly with John Harvey, Vice-Chairman [until 1954] and Chairman [1954-1956] of Woodford Conservative Association, and MP [for Walthamstow East, Essex, from 1955]., May 1954 - Dec 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/21
Scope and Contents Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Lettice Shillingford [earlier Lettice Marston], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Miss H Wood and Grace Hamblin; CSC (President of Woodford Conservative Association).Subjects include: constituency feeling on national issues such as MPs salaries and the withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal Zone [Egypt] in 1954; speculation about WSC's retirement as Prime Minister; the setting up of the Chigwell [Essex] Conservative Association;...
Dates: May 1954 - Dec 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence with Woodford Conservative Association branches at Aldersbrook, Buckhurst Hill, Loughton, Monkhams, Snaresbrook, and Wanstead [all Essex]., Aug 1952 - Jun 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/18
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Chairman [until 1952], and W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, (4) of Woodford Conservative Association. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Lettice Marston (Lettice Shillingford), Grace Hamblin, H [?Wood], Gillian Maturin, and Anthony Montague Browne; CSC (President of Woodford Conservative Association).Subjects include: organising visits to the Houses of Parliament; a message of sympathy for Queen...
Dates: Aug 1952 - Jun 1956
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence with Woodford Young Conservatives., Oct 1951 - Jan 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/19
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent of Woodford Conservative Association (4); John Redfern, Chairman of Woodford Divisional Young Conservatives [?1952-1953] (6); "David", 1st Lord Kilmuir [earlier Sir David Maxwell Fyfe]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Lettice Marston (Lettice Shillingford), Chips Gemmell, Monica Graham, ?Grace Hamblin, Doreen Pugh, Anthony Montague Browne, and Gillian Maturin; CSC (President of...
Dates: Oct 1951 - Jan 1959
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence, A-B., Jan 1929 - Oct 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/572A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Edward Marsh on an expression used by WSC; Cyril Alington, Headmaster of Eton College, on the education of Randolph Churchill (2); [1st] Lord Beatty on subjects including criticism of an obituary of Admiral Franz Hipper (5); Julian Amery; Nancy, Lady Astor on a disagreement with WSC; John Astor; Wilfrid Bailey; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on subjects including WSC's "Marlborough: His Life and Times", WSC's health, Free Trade, India and political affairs (14);...
Dates: Jan 1929 - Oct 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence, L-M., May 1929 - Sep 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/575A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Oliver Locker Lampson on subjects including an invitation to give a lecture (2); Sir John Lavery on the Artists' General Benevolent Institution; Nathan Laski requesting an invitation with the Home Secretary; Shane Leslie on WSC's "Marlborough: His life and times" and on family news (3); Commander Augustus Agar on a possible lecture by WSC; Leonie Leslie [earlier Leonie Jerome]; Frederick Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] on subjects including the Conservative Party,...
Dates: May 1929 - Sep 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: General Public correspondence, C-D. [please note the majority of the file dates from 1943]., Nov 1941 - Dec 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/472A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [2nd] Lord Chaplin sending brandy; Sylvia Checkley sending birthday wishes and flowers (5); [1st] Lord Davidson on an appeal fund for Wilson Carlisle, founder of the Church Army (2); Major-General [Charles] Constantine on meeting WSC and receiving a signed photograph from him; Captain A M Dick requesting an autographed photograph (4); [Bernard] Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Information] and [James] Drawbell on Drawbell's book "All Change Here"....
Dates: Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Good wishes in illness., Feb 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/488
Scope and Contents Correspondents (expressing sympathy at WSC's illness) include: Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard, President of the Empire Day Movement; Sir Frank Foster, Vice-President of the Chigwell and Ongar [Essex] Conservative Association; Sir Phillip Morris, Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University; Sir Patrick Hannon, Vice-President of the Carlton Club; Hugh Bullock; Sir Alfred Bossom on behalf of the Kent Local government conference meeting; Sir Charles Taylor, for the Eastbourne [Sussex] Constitutional...
Dates: Feb 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: miscellaneous correspondence., Jan 1943 - Jan 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/461
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Charles] Wood [former literary assistant of WSC] on his employment prospects; Maharaja of Nepal [?Shamsher Jang] and [Sir] Sadiq Mohammed, Nawab of Bahawalpur [India, later Pakistan] on WSC's health; [Francis] Harrison, [Assistant Principal] India Office, on replying to the Nawab of Bahawalpur; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada [in United Kingdom], on WSC autographing photographs for him; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] on a letter by him in the New York...
Dates: Jan 1943 - Jan 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: correspondence, H-Q., Feb 1943 - Feb 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/485
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] congratulating WSC on his speech at Harvard, Cambridge [United States]; James Conant, President, (2) and Jerome Greene, Secretary to the Corporation, of Harvard University and Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] (2) on WSC receiving an honorary degree from Harvard; Victor Goodman [Chief ARP and Security Officer of the Palace of Westminster] and [Douglas] Clifton-Brown...
Dates: Feb 1943 - Feb 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, A-B, many congratulating WSC on becoming Prime Minister and praising his leadership and speeches. [please note that almost the whole file dates from 1940]., Jun 1903 - Feb 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/392A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams (4) including (2) on his attending a meeting addressed by WSC; [John] Sandeman Allen on [David Lloyd George]; [1st] Lord Alness [earlier Robert Munro]; Julian Amery [Attache HM Legation, Belgrade] on articles by WSC for publication in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] (4); Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar] sending on a 1903 letter from WSC to him on...
Dates: Jun 1903 - Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, A-B, many on WSC's health, his travels abroad, and offering support for his leadership. [please note that most of the file dates from 1943]., Mar 1941 - Aug 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/463
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Major-General [2nd] Lord Rennell [earlier Francis Rodd] (15 Army Group) and General [Sir Harold] Alexander [later 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis] forwarding the first Union Jack to fly on the mainland of liberated Europe; Ava, Lady Anderson [earlier Ava Wigram, later Ava, Lady Waverley] commenting on and sending on notes on Ralph Wigram and the German breaking of the Treaty of Locarno including extracts from letters by [Pierre] Flandin [former French Foreign Minister];...
Dates: Mar 1941 - Aug 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open