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Scope and Contents Includes secret intelligence reports, intercepted documents and notes of interviews on various subjects including: issues and affairs in Soviet Russia including policy towards Persia [later Iran], speech by [Lev] Kamenev, negotiations with Great Britain on the Anglo-Russian trade agreement and war debts, conditions in Russia, food shortages, low morale in the Red Army, counter-revolutionaries, arrests of scientists, White Russia, Bolshevik forces in Persia and Mesopotamia [later Iraq],...

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Correspondents include: Edward Allen (6); Hyacinth Morgan; Thomas Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to WSC]; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (7); Reginald Maudling; F D Atkinson (7).Subjects include: release from Auxiliary Territorial Service; repair of bomb-damaged houses; scientists' Income Tax rebate; War Crimes Commission.

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Correspondents include: Clifford Heyworth, Town Clerk of Chingford, [Essex] on Chingford's neutral evacuation status and air raid shelters (12); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (4).Subjects include: local concerns over allowances to servicemen's dependants; local health report; vivisection; the Clubs Bill; pension enquiries; safeguarding the jobs of National Servicemen; car tax; Women's Voluntary Service.

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Correspondents include: G J Creed (11); Sir Richard Wells; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (5); A W Cuthbert (11); S D Clements, Private Secretary of War Damage Commission.Subjects include: repair of bomb damage and rehousing; Rent Restrictions Act [1939]; evacuation; release from Armed Forces.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Ethel Haslam (4); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of the Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (18); Philip Allen [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State] (5); E J Jones (8); Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (5th Baronet); E A Baker (secretary at the Ministry of Food) (5); J T S Lewis (secretary at the Ministry of Food) (4).Subjects include: deportation of internees; employment of aliens; housing shortages and...

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Correspondents include: Stanley B de Lacey (12); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (17); Henry H Lassman (4).Subjects include: army surgeon training; War Damage Commission; road safety; Merchant Navy pensions; the mines ballot; building contracts; National Insurance; PAYE.Also includes: a statement issued by the National Federation of Building Trades Employers on advance preparation of housing sites.

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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6).Subjects include: RAF demobilization; pension enquiries; requisitioning of houses; Italian prisoners of war; War Service grants; railway shares; internment of aliens; petrol allowances.Also includes: a cartoon postcard of WSC and Hitler; a song written by H Chadwick Palmer; a British Legion newsletter (spring 1945).

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6); L R Prescott [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] (5).Subjects include: rehousing evacuees; the Post-war Credit savings scheme; opposition to the new medical service (June 1944); bomb damage claims, repair and new housing; the extra London allowance for servicemen's dependants; the Location of Retail Businesses Order; requests for...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (13); E A Baker [secretary at the Ministry of Food] (4); I C Wilson (4).Subjects include: rehousing bomb victims; compassionate leave requests; defence bonds; war damage repair claims; tax allowances; pension enquiries; poultry feed rationing.Also includes: an extract from a House of Commons report on war damage to property; "The Surplus Women", a booklet by...

Scope and Contents Statement by WSC (5 September) on the war situation and an agreement with the United States over destroyers and defence bases, events in Romania, the achievements of the RAF, damage through bombing and the insurance scheme, evacuation, air raid warnings and other Home Front issues. Source material includes: notes and correspondence from Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse [Vice-Chief of Air Staff], Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook] (2), Arthur Cary [Assistant Principal, Air Ministry] (4),...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (22 January) entitled "A dark and deadly valley" on the structure of government during wartime, the roles of the Minister of Defence and the Minister for Reconstruction, the needs of the army and military production. Source material includes correspondence from: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the Cabinet] (5), Charles Hendriks, Clement Attlee [Lord Privy Seal], William Beveridge, Ernest Bevin [Minister of Labour and National Service] and notes from Eric Seal...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for statement by WSC (30 September) on the war situation including: the threat posed by Hitler, WSC's intention not to publish shipping losses to U-Boats, food and rations, the strength of the United States and the Soviet Union, Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, the army and Bomber Command, and events and operations in Persia [Iran]. Also includes correspondence from 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis] Minister of Food, Frank Wood, and Major-General Bernard Paget,...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's broadcast (21 March) on post war plans including: his illness; the difficulty of forecasting post war expenditure; anticipation of victory against Germany and Japan; the need for a 4 year plan; the Beveridge report; WSC's conviction of the need for social reform; agriculture; public health; education; unemployment. Extracts from the draft [unused] notes include criticism of Gandhi's fast and of the Beveridge report. See CHAR 9/193A/85-116 for description of draft...