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Diaries covering Colville's time as Assistant Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, and Clement Attlee.

Scope and Contents Letters to Clementine from [John] Jock Colville [Joint Principal Private Secretary to Churchill] during his trip to the United States with Churchill, on subjects including: their journey out to the United States and Canada, December 1951, commenting that he'd never heard anyone talk such rot as 1st Lord Mountbatten [4th Sea Lord] about foreign affairs, and also on the good spirits of [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]; plans for the visit and general American...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on MS's address at Sir John Colville's memorial service include: Lord Charteris of Amisfield; Lord Peyton of Yeovil; Raymond Bonham Carter; 6th Lord Malmesbury [earlier Lord Fitzharris]; Lady Margaret Colville (2); Sir [John] Nicholas Henderson; David Montagu [later 4th Lord Swaythling]; Sir Hermann Bondi, Master of Churchill College, University of Cambridge; Ian Beer; Angus Ogilvy; Martin Gilbert; Ion Trewin, Editorial Director of Hodder and Stoughton. Includes the text of...

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Subjects include: the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund; MS's memories of D-Day; her memories of Winston Churchill (for the Churchill Society, Toronto, Canada, 1987); the memorial service for Sir John Colville, 1988; the work of the Churchill Memorial Trust; the 50th anniversary of the WRVS (Women's Royal Voluntary Service), 1988; tribute to the journalist Sam White, Paris correspondent for the Evening Standard; the work of AJEX [The Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women].

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The material held at Churchill Archives Centre mainly consists of Colville's diaries. They provide an insight into the decision-making of three Prime Ministers and the meetings held with other top officials, as well as the lives of key figures during World War II, and its aftermath.