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

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1874 - 1965

Found in 153 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

(Untitled), 19 Aug 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/59-60
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee], Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon], General Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] and the Chief of the Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] regarding the long-term policy of placing an Anglo-American air force on the Russian southern flank in the Caucasus Annotated, probably during writing of WSC's "The Second World War" c1948-1954.

Dates: 19 Aug 1942
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Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Telegrams from Cairo [Egypt] and Moscow [Soviet Union] ("Bracelet").
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(Untitled), 15 Feb 1936

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/251/54-55
Scope and Contents

Letter from Desmond Chapman-Huston, Carlton Club, London to WSC, asking for permission to publish extract from Diary of Sir Sidney Low, for 13 Jan 1905, in which Low declined WSC's request to help him finish and revise Life of Lord Randolph Churchill.

Dates: 15 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Public and political: general / Public and Political: General Correspondence.
 Unknown

Writ and Claim for libel issued by WSC against the Daily Mirror, 25 Oct 1951

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/221/64
Scope and Contents

Includes transcript of published articles including "Whose Finger?" about WSC's words on the possibility of nuclear war and that "only Russia or America was in a position to pull the trigger" and a series of articles about on WSC's possible policy of issuing a peace ultimatum to Stalin.Printed pamphlet.

Dates: 25 Oct 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Public and Political: General / Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Proposed libel action against the Daily Mirror.

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