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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/282A-B
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Proofs for various articles by WSC for the Strand Magazine: "[Georges] Clemenceau: the man and the tiger" including his relationship with [Field Marshal Ferdinand] Foch, French politics and World War I; "If I lived my life over again" on various decisions taken by WSC, gambling, his experiences during the Boer War and at the Admiralty and his attitude towards the Conservative Party; "People who have influenced or impressed me" on Lord Randolph Churchill, William Bourke Cockran, Sir Francis...
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": correspondence., 12 Nov 1936 - 13 Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/548
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Correspondents include: Madeleine Clemenceau Jacquemaire on WSC's account of her father Georges Clemenceau; Adam Marshall Diston on research on Neville Chamberlain and 1st Lord Curzon (4); "Eddie" [Sir Edward Marsh] (3); "Ettie" [Ethel, Lady Desborough] (2); Clifford Norton [Foreign Office] advising on the toning down of the chapter on Hitler for fear of offending Germany; 1st Lord Wigram [Keeper of the King's Archives] on T E Lawrence's refusal of the C B; 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord...
Dates:
12 Nov 1936 - 13 Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Picture Post articles., Mar 1939 - Aug 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/655
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Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from Picture Post for: "What Britain's Policy Should Be", an interview with WSC in which he gives his views on British foreign policy over the preceding years and at that time, advocates co-operation with France, the United States and the Soviet Union against Germany, comments on the Spanish Civil War, the need to form a broader British government and civil defence; "How the War Began" on the build up to World War I, the assassination of...
Dates:
Mar 1939 - Aug 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Sunday Chronicle articles by WSC: 1 ("The World Crisis" series)., Oct 1939 - Nov 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/651
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Includes cuttings from the Chronicle for: "War - from inside the Admiralty" on experiencing naval action at the Admiralty during World War I, and a detailed description of the battle of the Dogger Bank; "U-boats - How the Navy Beat Them" on the morality of submarine warfare, the development of the Q-boat, the U-boat campaign against supply from the United States, and its consequence, the entry of the US into the war; "War on the Western Front" on casualties among the French, Germans and...
Dates:
Oct 1939 - Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Sunday Chronicle articles by WSC: 2 ("The World Crisis" series)., 03 Mar 1940 - 21 Apr 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/675
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Includes cuttings from the Chronicle for: "The Man Who Scared the U-Boats" on the convoy system for merchant shipping during World War I; "The German Army Myth" on the first battles on the Western Front; "The French" on the Battle of Verdun [France]; "The Blackest Day of the German Army" on the use of tanks at the Battles of Cambrai and Amiens [both France]; "The Valiant Heart of Man" on the bravery of those who fought in World War I; "Plan for Victory" on British naval strategy at the start...
Dates:
03 Mar 1940 - 21 Apr 1940
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Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 1., 07 Jan 1940 - 25 Feb 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/665
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Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "My Secret Tank Plans were Missing" on WSC's experiences at "Plugstreet" (Ploegsteert [Belgium]) during World War I, being shelled and thinking he had lost some secret tank plans; "My 17 Fateful Hours with Clemenceau" on being sent by [David] Lloyd George to see [Georges] Clemenceau on the Western Front, and his opinions of [Field Marshal Ferdinand] Foch and [General Lord] Rawlinson; "I Compel Lawrence of Arabia [T E Lawrence, later T E Shaw]...
Dates:
07 Jan 1940 - 25 Feb 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 4., 26 May 1940 - 30 Jun 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/668
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Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "The Other Man Who Thought He Had Us Beaten" on the character of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the peace before World War I, WSC's presence at military manoeuvres in Germany in 1906, Wilhelm's mistakes, and his years of exile following the war; "Another Blow We Thought We Would Never Survive" on WSC's memories of Lord Kitchener during World War I, the fall of Namur [Belgium], the failure of the Dardanelles [Turkey] expedition, and Kitchener's death; "The...
Dates:
26 May 1940 - 30 Jun 1940
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Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 5., 07 Jul 1940 - 11 Aug 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/669
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Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "My American Notebook" on WSC's travels in California [United States], Redwood trees, visiting San Francisco [United States] and the Lick Observatory; "Where the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward VIII] Will Govern", a brief history of the Bahamas, including pirates and wreckers, the American Civil War, the effect of Prohibition, and commenting on the residents and WSC's memories of the islands; "The American Problem" on United States prosperity,...
Dates:
07 Jul 1940 - 11 Aug 1940
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Open.
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Literary: various articles by WSC., Jan 1938 - Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/609
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Includes: Press cutting for "1938 - World's Year of Fate", published in Answers (29 January 1938), briefly commenting on rearmament, the Spanish Civil War, the threat of Japan, Italy and Germany, and the role of Britain, France and the United States. Cuttings and proofs for "Women in War", published in the February edition of the Strand Magazine, looking at the subject from both an historical perspective, focusing on figures such as Joan of Arc, and examining the contemporary situation...
Dates:
Jan 1938 - Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Munitions., 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/127
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P (Projectiles) Report of Mission to France appointed by the Controller of Gun Ammunition Filling, investigating the French methods of manufacturing and filling fuses, gaines, delays detonators, the manufacture of fulminate and minor explosives, and the preparation of time powders, led by Lt-Col. H G Fitzhay.
Dates:
1918
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Open
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Official: Munitions., 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/128
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P (Projectiles) Appendix to Report of Mission to France appointed by the Controller of Gun Ammunition Filling, investigating the French methods of manufacturing and filling fuses, gaines, delays detonators, the manufacture of fulminate and minor explosives, and the preparation of time powders, led by Lt-Col. H G Fitzhay.
Dates:
1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/39A-B
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Includes correspondence and papers by various individuals including: Sir Auckland Geddes [Minister of National Service and Reconstruction] on manpower; Colonel Richard Steel and Major-General Percy Radcliffe on allied and enemy manpower and rifle strengths; WSC, Minister of Munitions, on the murder of Captain Cromie at Petrograd [later Leningrad and St Petersburg, Russia]; the award of the 1914 star and the Gallipoli star, horse-racing, the French ministry of national reconstitution, and...
Dates:
01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 08 Dec 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/71/148-149
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Letter from the Comte de Bresson (7 Rue Choron, [Paris, France]) to WSC enclosing and commenting on notes on Greece submitted to the Prime Minister of France [see CHAR 2/71/150-153], stressing the necessity from the Allies' point of view of removing King Constantine, lamenting the functionary spirit which currently characterises the French war effort, calling for vigorous efforts by the Allies in April, and warning that the Germans are building a submarine fleet with a view to cutting off...
Dates:
08 Dec 1916
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(Untitled), 26 Dec 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/41/23
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Telegram from Sir Francis Bertie [British Ambassador to France], on a meeting between Paul Cambon [French Ambassador to Britain] and the French Minister of War, in which Cambon passed on a message about the importance that the British attached to the transfer of British troops to the extreme left of the Allied line. Bertie also reports on the view of General Joseph Joffre [Chief of French General Staff] on such a move, and Joffre's lack of confidence in British support, particularly from [?...
Dates:
26 Dec 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Churchill Archives Centre