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Public and Political: General: correspondence congratulating WSC on his 67th and 68th birthdays., Nov 1941 - Dec 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/453

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: [Major-General Percy] Hobart on behalf of the 79th Armoured Division; Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Acting Prime Minister of Poland; [Ivan] Maisky [Soviet Union Ambassador to the United Kingdom] (2); Edward [Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and Edward VIII]; [Hubert] Pierlot, Prime Minister of Belgium; Prince Bernard of the Netherlands; Governor of British Honduras [Belize], Sir [John] Hunter; Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King; General [Georges] Catroux; Manuel Bianchi, Chilean Ambassador [to Great Britain]; [John] Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia; Governor of the Falkland Islands [Allen Cardinall]; Prime Minister of New Zealand, [Peter] Fraser; General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French]; Michael Wright, 1st Secretary, British Embassy, Cairo [Egypt], and Secretary of State for the Colonies [Oliver Stanley] sending on WSC's thanks to groups; General [Josef] Haller, Polish Cabinet Minister; King George II of Greece; [William] Hughes [former Prime Minister of Australia]; Maharaja Jan Saheb of Nawanagar [India]; Maharaja of Bikaner [India]; Sir William Morrison, President of the Jamaica Scottish Society; Prince Mohammed Ali [formerly Regent of Egypt]; Maharaja Joodha Shumshere [Jung Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister] of Nepal; [John] Andrews [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland]; President of Poland Wladyslaw Racykiewicz; Field Marshal [Jan] Smuts; [Sir] Hubert Young and Sir [Bede] Clifford, [successive] Governors [and Commanders-in-Chief] of Trinidad [and Tobago]; King Peter II of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Guy Millard of the Foreign Office on arranging replies to various messages. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC], and [Prime Minister's Private Secretaries, Francis] Brown, [John] Peck, [Edith] Watson, and [John] Martin.Other subjects include: a message from the Serbian National Defence Committee of America.Also includes: list of various people receiving replies from WSC; name card from Huseyin Rauf Orbay, Turkish Ambassador.

Dates

  • Creation: Nov 1941 - Dec 1942

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 bound file (104 folios))

Language of Materials

English

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