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Copies of letters from Clement Attlee [Lord Privy Seal] to Prime Minister [WSC], 8 Aug-20 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/3/39/12-18

Scope and Contents

Subjects include debates in the House of Commons on coal and the war situation, Brendan [Bracken's role as Minister of Information], a proposed meeting of [Commonwealth] Prime Ministers, events in the Far East [Japanese attacks on Allied forces in East and Southeast Asia in Dec 1941] and reactions in a secret session [of the House of Commons], and apprehension about the defence of India.

Dates

  • Creation: 8 Aug-20 Dec 1941

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.

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Extent

3 item(s)

External Documents

Bibliography

An extract of folios 16-18 (letter from Attlee, 20 Dec 1941) is published in 'Winston S. Churchill' volume VII 'Road to Victory, 1941-1945' by Martin Gilbert, p.8 and the same letter is published in full 'The Churchill Documents' volume 16 'The Ever Widening War 1941' by Martin Gilbert, pp.1654-1655.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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