Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
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Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 1265 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: various correspondence., 14 Sep 1937 - 31 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/594
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Correspondents include: Sir John Marriott on the projected 1910 Coalition Government; Maurice Gamelin, Vice-Admiral Emile-Paul Guepratte and others thanking WSC for copies of ["My Early Life"]; Arthur Asquith praising "The River War"; Longmans, Green and Company (8) on subjects including WSC writing the foreword for "Alarms and Excursions" by General Sir Tom Bridges (6); General Sir Hubert Gough on a memorial to the 5th Army; Adam Marshall Diston (15) on subjects including the preparation of...
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14 Sep 1937 - 31 Dec 1938
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Literary: various correspondence., 04 Jan 1939 - 11 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/624
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Correspondents include: Edward Martell on a proposed "Biographical Dictionary of the British Empire" (3); Sir Roger Keyes asking WSC to write the forward to his book and advocating WSC taking over responsibility for air defences (2); John Gloag; Louis [Edward Spears] (2) on subjects including writing the preface for his book "Doomed Enterprise"; 1st Lord Lee on WSC's method of printing his manuscripts; representatives of Jonathan Cape Limited including G Wren Howard and Rupert Hart-Davis;...
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04 Jan 1939 - 11 Dec 1939
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Literary: various correspondence., 31 Dec 1939 - 31 Dec 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/657
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Correspondents include: Edward Chatterton on correcting statements in an article by WSC on Q-boats in the Sunday Chronicle; Stefan Lorant, Editor of Picture Post, on a special issue telling the story of the Battle of the River Plate; John Perowne (Foreign Office) and 11th Lord Lothian [British Ambassador in the United States] on WSC writing an article for Atlantic Monthly; William Chenery, Editor of Collier's magazine; representatives of George G Harrap and Company on getting an introduction...
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31 Dec 1939 - 31 Dec 1940
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Literary: Various correspondence., 04 Jan 1928 - 28 May 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/216
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Includes correspondence with: [1st Lord] Riddell asking WSC to write for Country Life; Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson on the possibility of publishing WSC's speeches (3); Sir William Tyrrell and [Brigadier General] James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section.Other subjects include: interception by the Admiralty of German information; WSC's opinion of Bismarck and permission to quote from "The World Crisis".Also includes proofs of WSC's introduction to "The Secret Battle"...
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04 Jan 1928 - 28 May 1928
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Literary: Various correspondence., 21 Oct 1922 - 31 Dec 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/223
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Correspondents include: Colonel Minnegerode of the New York Times about the serialisation of Volume 4 of "The World Crisis", "The Aftermath"; Sir James Henderson-Stewart; Lucy Wise on the visit of Sir Frederic Wise to Germany to report on the country's financial position to the Peace Conference; Professor Leslie Hearnshaw; Henry Forster (3); [Major] Desmond Morton; [Brigadier General James] Edmonds [of the Military Branch of the Historical Section] (6); Commander Taprell Dorling (4); Peter...
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21 Oct 1922 - 31 Dec 1929
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Literary: Various correspondence., 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/286
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Correspondents include: Brigadier General James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section; Hiram Maxim on the Maxim gun and its use at the Battle of Omdurman [Sudan]; "Eddie" [17th Lord Derby] on inaccuracies in WSC's account of Arthur Balfour's actions following the resignation of "Joe" [Joseph] Chamberlain and [8th Duke of Devonshire]; [2nd Lord] Balfour praising WSC's portrayal of "AJB" [Arthur Balfour]; Sir Oliver Lodge; Grant Richards on WSC's introduction to "The Story...
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1931
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Literary: Various correspondence., 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/306
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Correspondents include: Reeves Shaw of the Strand magazine on articles by WSC (4); Jonathan Cape asking WSC to write an introduction to a book on Napoleon; Arthur Bertie; Hugh Dent of J M Dent and Sons (2); Leonie, Lady Leslie giving information about Leonard Jerome [WSC's grandfather]; Ivor Nicholson; Edward Marsh on his work proof-reading WSC's articles (2); Frank Witts, Military Instructor at Sandhurst, on the use of "The World Crisis" as a text book (3); Shane Leslie on the Philippines...
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1932
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Literary: Various Correspondence., 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/320
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Correspondents include representatives of "The Field" and an International Press Agency requesting permission to publish a speech by WSC (4) and various publishers including John Lane and The Bodley Head asking WSC to re-write "12 of the World's most famous stories" (4) and the Haworth Press commissioning an introduction by WSC to an edition of "The New Examen" by John Paget (8).
Dates:
1933
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Literary: various correspondence., 29 Dec 1933 - 31 May 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/482
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Correspondents include: Percy Cudlipp [Editor of the Evening Standard] asking WSC for a series of articles marking the Royal Jubilee; C T Hagberg Wright (Secretary and Librarian of the London Library) (4); Reeves Shaw [Editor of the Strand Magazine] on payment of serial rights for WSC's articles (2); Newman Flower [President of Cassell and Company Limited]; the Agence Litteraire Internationale Press Service, asking permission to publish some of WSC's articles (6); Sir Basil Clarke (Managing...
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29 Dec 1933 - 31 May 1935
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Literary: various correspondence., 29 Dec 1934 - 31 Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/502A-B
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Correspondents include: representatives of the Agence Litteraire Internationale on reproduction rights in WSC's articles (10); William Blackwood [Literary Director of the Amalgamated Press Limited] (2); Sir John Hammerton, Amalgamated Press Limited; Sir Eugen Millington-Drake (2); William Hadley [Editor of the Sunday Times] (2); representatives of the British General Press, asking WSC to write a series of articles on Ramsay Macdonald (8); Shane Leslie; G Bernard Hughes, Editor-in-Chief of...
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29 Dec 1934 - 31 Dec 1935
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Literary: various correspondence., 03 Jan 1936 - 22 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/528A-B
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Correspondents include: Ernest Ainley-Walker; Verena, Lady Churchill [ex-wife of 1st Lord Churchill] on 1st Lord Churchill and Randolph Churchill; Ivor Nicholson, Chairman of Ivor Nicholson and Watson Limited, publishers; representatives of the Daily Mail, including Arthur Cranfield [Editor] on WSC's articles (5); representatives of Curtis Brown Limited on the rights in WSC's articles (4); Sir Charles Petrie; Lady Oxford and Asquith [earlier Margot Asquith] objecting to WSC's article on 1st...
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03 Jan 1936 - 22 Dec 1936
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Literary: various correspondence., 01 Jan 1937 - 01 Apr 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/546
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Correspondents include: Sir Walter Layton, Editor of the Economist; Richard von Kuhlmann (2); G Payot on publishing WSC's work in France (7); Oliver Locker-Lampson on using WSC's articles (2); H A Gwynne [Editor of the Morning Post]; Arthur Christiansen, Editor of the Daily Express; representatives of George Allen and Unwin Limited, on publishing one of WSC's broadcasts (4); Nancy Pearn, Director of Pearn, Pollinger and Higham Limited, literary agents, commissioning an article (5); Adam...
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01 Jan 1937 - 01 Apr 1938
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Literary: various correspondence., 15 Jan 1940 - 27 Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/680
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Correspondents include: Josephine Parr [former secretary to WSC] offering her services; Emile Rieu, Literary and Academic Adviser at Methuen and Company (2); representatives of Cassell and Company (3), including a Director, Sir Newman Flower, on the destruction of Cassell's premises in an air raid; Douglas Jerrold, Director of Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited (3); George Campbell on publishing "Lord Randolph Churchill" in Sweden (6); Brendan Bracken (3); Rubeigh Minney, Editor of the Strand...
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15 Jan 1940 - 27 Dec 1941
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Literary: various correspondence., 16 Dec 1940 - 26 Nov 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/698
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Correspondents include: officials of the Ministry of Information (8); Daniel MacMillan, [Chairman and Managing Director], and Lovat Dickson, [Director], of MacMillan and Company, on managing those works by WSC where he holds the copyright (7).Also includes copy letters and notes from Brendan Bracken and officials of WSC's Private Office including John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] and Anthony Bevir [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to those mentioned above and...
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16 Dec 1940 - 26 Nov 1942
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Literary: various correspondence., 09 Jan 1943 - 30 Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/707
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Correspondents include: representatives of MacMillan and Company including Daniel MacMillan, [Chairman and Managing Director], and Lovat Dickson, [Director], on managing their works by WSC (14); James Drawbell, [Editor] of the Sunday Chronicle, on a tribute by WSC to Rupert Brooke; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] on reprinting articles by WSC in the United States and an article and book by Reves; Sir Malcolm Robertson, [Chairman] of the British Council, on the Spanish publication of...
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09 Jan 1943 - 30 Dec 1943
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Literary: various correspondence., 18 Jan 1944 - 05 Jan 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/711
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Correspondents include: representatives of MacMillan and Company including Lovat Dickson, [Director], on managing their works by WSC (25); Guy Millard (Foreign Office); officials of the Ministry of Information including Bernard Sendall (3); Curtis Brown Limited on WSC's war memoirs; Lod de Haas (6) on subjects including signing WSC's arrest warrant during the Boer War (with a transcript of a 1908 letter from WSC to Haas); George Harvie-Watt [Parliamentary Private Secretary to WSC]; Alfred...
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18 Jan 1944 - 05 Jan 1945
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Literary: various correspondence., 04 Jan 1945 - 19 Dec 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/716
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Correspondents include: representatives of MacMillan and Company including Lovat Dickson, [Director] (6); Guy Millard (Foreign Office); James Drawbell, [Editor] of the Sunday Chronicle, sending WSC a copy of his book "Night and Day"; Lieutenant-Colonel George Scovell; Colin Thornley (Colonial Office); representatives of Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, including Douglas Jerrold [Director] (2); Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch.Other subjects include: corrections to the texts of WSC's...
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04 Jan 1945 - 19 Dec 1945
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Literary: Various correspondence about corrections to and research for WSC's book "The Aftermath" [Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"]., 01 Dec 1928 - 27 Dec 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/218
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Includes correspondence with: Sir James [Cosgrave] (2); Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence]; on various subjects including the Peace Treaty after World War I, reparations, the roles of President [Woodrow] Wilson, [David] Lloyd George, [Vittorio] Orlando and [Georges] Clemenceau (6); James Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor to the Foreign Office] on approving the book for the Foreign Office (2); Desmond Morton on WSC's treatment of General [Pierre] Janin and...
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01 Dec 1928 - 27 Dec 1928
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Literary: Various correspondence about "The World Crisis"., Mar 1927 - May 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/209
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Correspondents include: T E Shaw [T E Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"] praising WSC as a writer and a historian (2); Sir Eugene Millington-Drake; [Joseph] Caillaux (2); Commandant Lanrezac (2); Peter Larkin [High Commissioner of Canada] on WSC's treatment of the Canadian troops (3); Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice including proofs of an article by him disputing facts cited by WSC.Includes 3 copies of a letter from WSC to [Geoffery Dawson] Editor of the Times defending the statistics...
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Mar 1927 - May 1927
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Literary: Various correspondence about WSC's book "The Aftermath" [Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"]., 05 Jun 1928 - 30 Nov 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/217
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Includes correspondence with: Owen O Malley, WSC's researcher (3); Desmond Morton (1); Alexander Watt of A P Watt and Sons (5); Nevile Bland (1); [Brigadier General] James Edmonds [of the Military Branch of the Historical Section] 2); Sir Warren Fisher (1); James Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor to the Foreign Office] on approving the contents of "The Aftermath"; "Archie" [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later Lord Thurso] criticising WSC's representation of the Bolsheviks as "utterly inhuman, the...
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05 Jun 1928 - 30 Nov 1928
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Literary: Various correspondence about WSC's book "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 01 Jan 1929 - 31 Jan 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/222
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Correspondents include: [James] Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor to the Foreign Office] on subjects including the blockade and starvation of Germany after the armistice (4); David Lloyd George on his role in negotiations in Ireland, and on policy regarding Greece and [Eleutherios] Venizelos, Turkey and Russia [the Soviet Union]; Lord Cecil of Chelwood; Lionel Curtis; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence]; Hubert Carr-Gomm; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st...
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01 Jan 1929 - 31 Jan 1929
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Literary: Various Correspondence relating to Volume 3 of "The World Crisis"., Jan 1917 - Mar 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/208
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Correspondents include: Jonathan Cape Limited on the possibility of WSC writing an introduction to Lord John Herbey's memoirs of the reign of King George II (2); Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice on the accuracy of WSC's citation of army statistics which were given to [David] Lloyd George (8); Brigadier General James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section (3); General Debeney of the French Ministry of War; Professor F A Lindemann [later Lord Cherwell]; Admiral Sir Cecil...
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Jan 1917 - Mar 1927
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Literary: volume 4 of "Marlborough: His Life and Times": letters of congratulations and thanks for complimentary copies., 05 Sep 1938 - 23 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/596
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Correspondents include (many commenting on contemporary foreign affairs): Maurice Ashley [WSC's researcher]; Consuelo [Balsan, earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough]; Alfred Burne [Assistant Editor of the Fighting Forces]; Sir Bindon Blood; Edward Cadogan (2); 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry]; Hendrikus Colijn [Prime Minister of the Netherlands]; 1st Lord Craigavon [earlier James Craig]; Neville Chamberlain; Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds; 2nd Lord Wimborne [earlier Ivor...
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05 Sep 1938 - 23 Dec 1938
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Literary: "While England Slept": abridged edition., Feb 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/640
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Cuttings from February edition of Omnibook magazine containing abridged version of "While England Slept" [United States title of "Arms and the Covenant"], including a "Foreword to the Omnibook Edition" commenting on the foresight of WSC's speeches.
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Feb 1939
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Literary: WSC's articles for Collier's Magazine., 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/318
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Proofs and offprints of articles including: "Thoughts on Prohibition" (including research notes by Shane Leslie); "Are we too clever?" on economic depression and overproduction; and "Defence in the Pacific" on the policy of the United States towards the Philippine Islands (including notes from Colin Coote and Shane Leslie).
Dates:
1932
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