Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
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Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 4519 Collections and/or Records:
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Public and Political: General: Ross and Cromarty By-election: Randolph Churchill's candidature., 10 Jan 1936 - 07 Apr 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/287
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Correspondents include: Randolph Churchill on subjects including his adoption as Conservative candidate for Ross and Cromarty [Scotland], his willingness to support a Liberal candidate, canvassing, the [National Government] candidate, Malcolm MacDonald, local support, press reaction to his candidature, local agricultural conditions and economic distress, and WSC's popularity in the area (9); Brendan Bracken on Randolph's poor chances; John Astor [owner of the Times] on a suggestion in the...
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10 Jan 1936 - 07 Apr 1936
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Public and Political: General: Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm., 11 Feb 1936 - 21 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/272
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Lloyd [of Dolobran, President of the Navy League] on WSC speaking to the League (2); Sir John Thornycroft [President and Director, J I Thornycroft and Company Limited] on his firm's designs for an aircraft carrier and anti-submarine craft and cuts in the shipbuilding industry (with a description of the anti-submarine craft); Maitland Boucher [former member of the Naval Air Division] on meeting WSC about the Fleet Air Arm (3); Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald...
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11 Feb 1936 - 21 Dec 1936
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Public and Political: General: Spain., 10 Feb 1937 - 14 Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/314
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Correspondents on the Spanish Civil War include: the Marques del Moral [representative of the Nationalists] on the illegality of the Spanish Government; Pablo, Marques de Merry del Val [former Spanish Ambassador to Britain] on subjects including the Communist dictatorship in the Government, WSC's article ["Spain's Road to Peace"], Communist propaganda, and the mercy shown by General Franco to his opponents (4); Robert Graves on WSC's misinformation about Communist influence and interference...
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10 Feb 1937 - 14 Dec 1937
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Public and Political: General: The New Commonwealth., 15 Dec 1935 - 30 Jul 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/284
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Davies [Chairman, New Commonwealth Society] on subjects including WSC's speeches, his advocacy of an international police force, the shortcomings of the League of Nations, the aims of the New Commonwealth Society and their similarity to WSC's, inviting WSC to be President of the society, the Peace Society, the ultimate aim of building up an international air force, and reducing the air strength of individual nations, and the British contribution to the League...
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15 Dec 1935 - 30 Jul 1936
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Public and Political: General: The New Commonwealth., 01 Aug 1936 - 22 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/285
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Davies, Chairman, New Commonwealth Society, on subjects including WSC's importance as a leader for a federal Europe, maintaining impartiality between France and Germany, the need to treat Germany as a potential member of a European Confederation, a possible British and European federal campaign for WSC, suggesting that he should speak for the society in Germany, bringing Sir Abe Bailey into the society, WSC's speeches for the society, keeping up the German...
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01 Aug 1936 - 22 Dec 1936
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Public and Political: General: Various: Churchill Endowment Fund and the Sonning Prize., Feb 1951 - Apr 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/620A-B
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Correspondence and papers accumulated by Trustee Colonel William Deakin and Jo Sturdee [later Lady Onslow], Secretary to the British Section, on the setting up and administration of the Fund for educational and cultural exchanges between Britain and Denmark, including a donation towards an Anglo-Danish expedition to North Greenland, 1952-53.Other correspondents include: [Harvey] Druitt, Assistant Treasury Solicitor (4); Count Eduard Reventlow, Danish Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2); Sir...
Dates:
Feb 1951 - Apr 1957
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Public and Political: General: Various: General Public Correspondence., 1915 - Jul 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/502A-B
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Correspondents include: Terence Grady (3) and John Graham [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary] with advice on responses to enquiries; Cyril Hankinson, Editor of Debrett; [5th Lord] Rayleigh [earlier John Strutt]; Leo Amery; William Gauld, Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Scotland; Leslie Baily regarding WSC's recollection of seeing Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Ruddigore'; Samuel Hammersley; Leon Guerrero, Philippine Ambassador to Great Britain; Sir Arthur Power; Captain...
Dates:
1915 - Jul 1955
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Public and Political: General: Various: General Public Correspondence., Aug 1955 - Dec 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/503
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Correspondents include: Brigadier Harold Money; Air Chief Marshal Sir John Whitworth Jones; John Connell, leader writer for the Evening News; [Rodney] Graham Page, M P for Crosby [Lancashire]; Mary Jerome; Peter Goldman, Director of the Conservative Political Centre; John Craigie; Sakari Tuomiojo, Finnish Ambassador to Great Britain; Desmond Donnelly; Marcus Sieff with a memorandum on "Stability in the Middle East"; Major Pieter van der Byl, M P; and Surgeon-Commander Murray Levick,...
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Aug 1955 - Dec 1955
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Public and Political: General: Various: "I guarded Winston" by Ex-Inspector Walter Thompson: typescript., 1939 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/494A-B
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Includes a typescript of Ex-Inspector Walter Thompson's book about his experiences working for WSC between 1939 and 1945 covering subjects and events including: WSC as First Lord of the Admiralty and as Prime Minister; WSC's visits to Chequers [Buckinghamshire]; WSC's habits including methods of working and writing speeches; WSC's illnesses during the war; wartime events including the Battle of Britain, the Atlantic Charter, WSC's visits to Washington [United States] and Moscow [Soviet...
Dates:
1939 - 1945
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Public and Political: General: Various: "I worked for Mr Churchill" by Elizabeth Layton, typescript., 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/498A-B
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Includes typescript proofs of a book by Elizabeth Layton [later Elizabeth Nel] published as "Mr Churchill's Secretary" sent for WSC's approval. The book covers her experiences working for WSC between 1941 and 1945 and subjects and events including: WSC's work habits and methods of writing speeches; his personal health during the war; wartime events including the blitz and VE Day; visits to Washington [United States], Quebec [Canada], Cairo [Egypt], Teheran [Iran], Moscow; 10 Downing Street,...
Dates:
1947
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Public and Political: General: various papers. [most date from 1943]., Jan 1939 - Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/462
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Includes: cutting from the Daily Telegraph on a broadcast by President [Franklin] Roosevelt on ?13 February 1943 on matters including the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers and the situation in North Africa; list of members of the Other Club; copies of poem by [Arthur] Weber-Brown on WSC and Roosevelt; extract from a lecture given by WSC to the Royal United Services Institution on 17 April 1901 on the war in South Africa; cutting from the St Louis Post-Dispatch [United States] on the...
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Jan 1939 - Dec 1943
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Aberdeen and Edinburgh [Scotland] (April 1946)., 29 May 1942 - 19 Jun 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/233
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Sir Ronald Matthews, Chairman, London and North Eastern Railway, on travel arrangements; Sir Thomas Mitchell, Lord Provost of Aberdeen, on arrangements for WSC's visit and granting him the Freedom of the City (16); Sir Thomas Jaffrey; Helen, Lady Jaffrey, on accommodation for WSC; Sir Hastings Ismay [Additional Secretary (Military) to the Cabinet] on statistics for Scots in the Armed Forces for WSC's speech in Aberdeen ("The Needs of a Sick World", 27...
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29 May 1942 - 19 Jun 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Ayr [Scotland] (May 1947)., 27 Nov 1946 - 09 Aug 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/251
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Sir Charles MacAndrew on accommodation for WSC; Robert Brown, Town Clerk, Ayr, on arrangements for WSC receiving an honorary burgess-ship (14); Sir Thomas Moore [MP for Ayr Burgh] on invitations for WSC, and WSC's speech at Ayr ["Trust the People", 16 May 1947] (3); Sir Arthur Young [MP for Partick, Glasgow] (6); Lieutenant- General Sir Robert Sturges, Royal Marines Association, asking WSC to visit the Ayrshire branch of the association; James Stuart...
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27 Nov 1946 - 09 Aug 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Blenheim [Oxfordshire] (August 1947)., 03 Jun 1947 - 16 Aug 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/253
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Mary, Lady Blandford]; [Arthur] Douglas Dodds-Parker [MP for Banbury, Oxfordshire] on numbers attending a fete at Blenheim Palace, and the success of WSC's speech at the fete ["A Doctor's Mandate", 4 August 1947]. Also includes notes and correspondence by CSC and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow] and Elizabeth Gilliatt, WSC's secretaries.Other subjects include: WSC...
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03 Jun 1947 - 16 Aug 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Cuba (February 1946)., 05 Jan 1946 - 19 Mar 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/231
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Correspondents on WSC's visit to Cuba and invitation to Jamaica include: Frank Clarke (2); Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]; Guillermo de Blanck [Cuban Ambassador to Britain]; Miguel de Leon, Acting-President, Cuban Congress; Albert Nathan, Publisher, Jamaica Daily Express (3); [William] Alexander Bustamente [leader of Government Business, Jamaica] (2); Cecil Bunbury, Press Attache, British Legation, Cuba (4); William Dunlop [Head of Communications Department, Foreign Office]. Also includes...
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05 Jan 1946 - 19 Mar 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: Denmark., Oct 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/278
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Presscuttings, from British, Danish and Swedish press on WSC's visit to Denmark, Oct 1950 File includes cuttings from the Daily Dispatch, the Sheffield Telegraph, the News Chronicle; the Birmingham Post; the Daily Telegraph; The Times; the Newcastle Journal; the Daily Mail; the Daily Graphic; the Daily Express; and the Yorkshire Post; on speech in the KB Hall, Copenhagen on the United Europe movement, the Soviet Union and the European Army [11 Oct] [this speech is not included in Complete...
Dates:
Oct 1950
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Metz, Luxembourg, Paris (July 1946)., Sep 1944 - 12 Feb 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/237
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Correspondents on WSC's visit to France and Luxembourg include: Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (2); Andrew Clasen, Luxembourg Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, on subjects including arrangements for the visit, and requests for photographs of WSC (8); [?] Ethel, Lady Cotton; Robert Schuman, French Minister of Finance; Sir [David] Rowland Evans, General Secretary, Liberal National Organization; Louis Vallon, Director, Paris Mint, on medallions for WSC; Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord...
Dates:
Sep 1944 - 12 Feb 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Paris, Brussels and Antwerp (November 1945)., 13 Oct 1945 - 04 Apr 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/222
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Correspondents on WSC's visit to France and Belgium include: 1st Lord Cunningham [Chief of Naval Staff] on transport for WSC (2); Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador to Belgium, on the risks of appearing to support Leopold, King of Belgium, WSC's speech to the Belgian Parliament, and the programme for the visit (9); Edward [Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII]; 13th Lord Reay [earlier Aeneas Mackay], Foreign Office (3); Duff Cooper [later 1st...
Dates:
13 Oct 1945 - 04 Apr 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Paris [France] (May 1947)., 25 Jul 1945 - 15 Jun 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/252
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Lord Duncannon [later 10th Lord Bessborough, 1st Secretary, British Embassy, Paris] thanking those sending congratulations to WSC on his receiving the medaille militaire (3); Joseph Paul-Boncour, President, Franco-British Parliamentary Group, on WSC receiving the medaille militaire; General L Mast, on the medal; Comtesse Greffuhle [earlier Princess de Cameran-Chimay] inviting WSC to stay and recalling Lady Randolph Churchill and WSC's aunt [Janey] Lady...
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25 Jul 1945 - 15 Jun 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland (August - September 1946) G - H., 22 Aug 1946 - 10 Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/241
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Charles Gos on a speech by WSC on mountains (6); Clare Sheridan; General Henri Guisan, thanking WSC for a gift of some of his books; Alan Hillgarth [earlier Alan Evans]; Henri Hoppenot, French Ambassador to Switzerland; Sir Ellis Hume-Williams. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt and M Staite, WSC's secretaries. A large proportion of the papers in this file are in French or...
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22 Aug 1946 - 10 Dec 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland (August - September 1946) I - L., 20 May 1946 - 22 Apr 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/242A-B
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: David Lamb; Dennis Larking; H Lefeuvre-Meaulle, French Minister Plenipotentiary in Switzerland (2); Lord Duncannon [later 10th Lord Bessborough, First Secretary, British Embassy, Paris, France]; J Luscher, photographer, on taking photographs of "Choisi", where WSC was staying (4). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by CSC and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, M Staite, "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow]...
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20 May 1946 - 22 Apr 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland (August - September 1946): press cuttings., 12 Sep 1946 - 11 Oct 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/248
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Press cuttings on WSC's visit, on subjects including: WSC's visits to Lausanne, Zurich, Berne and Geneva; WSC's speech at the University of Zurich ["The Tragedy of Europe", 19th September 1946] on the need to establish a United States of Europe; Walter Thompson, WSC's police guard; WSC's painting; a planned attack on WSC.
Dates:
12 Sep 1946 - 11 Oct 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland ( August - September 1946) S., 19 Jun 1946 - 02 Jan 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/245
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: James Senn on his butter machine (4); Ernest Bartschi, Mayor of Berne; Werner Balsiger, Chief of Swiss Police, and Max Maurer, Commissioner of Swiss Police. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by M Staite, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, B Vogel and "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow], WSC's secretaries. A large proportion of the papers in this file are in French or German.Other subjects include:...
Dates:
19 Jun 1946 - 02 Jan 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland (August - September 1946) Wel - Z., 10 Dec 1944 - 10 Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/247
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Victor Holbek, Danish Consul Royal in Switzerland; Duncan [? Sandys] on the broadcast of WSC's speech at the University of Zurich ["The Tragedy of Europe", 19th September 1946]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by Elizabeth Gilliatt, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], M Staite and "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow], WSC's secretaries. Most of the papers in this file date from 1946, and a large proportion are in French or...
Dates:
10 Dec 1944 - 10 Dec 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: the Netherlands (May 1946): arrangements and official papers., 19 Nov 1945 - 19 Jun 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/234A-B
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Sir Neville Bland, British Ambassador to the Netherlands (7); [Edgar] Michiels van Verduynen, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Britain, on arrangements for the visit and the award of an honorary doctorate to WSC from the University of Leyden (4); 13th Lord Reay [earlier Aeneas Mackay], Foreign Office (4); A P C van Karnebeek, First Secretary, Embassy of the Netherlands (4); J W Meijer Ranneft, former Chairman, People's Council in the Dutch East Indies...
Dates:
19 Nov 1945 - 19 Jun 1946
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Open