Public and Political: General: General Election: Press cuttings of broadcasts., 09 Jun 1945 - 01 Aug 1945
Scope and Contents
Newspaper cuttings (mainly from the Times and the Daily Telegraph) of broadcasts and speeches made during the 1945 General Election campaign by the following: Sir Richard Acland; A V Alexander; Leo Amery; Clement Attlee; Philip Noel-Baker; Harold Balfour; [1st] Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; Leslie Hore-Belisha; Aneurin Bevan; Sir William Beveridge; Ernest Bevin; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; Brendan Bracken; R A Butler; WSC; Sir Stafford Cripps; [1st Lord] Croft; Hugh Dalton; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]; Arthur Greenwood; James Griffiths; Robert Hudson; Thomas Johnston; Harold Laski; Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine]; John Llewellin; Geoffrey Lloyd; Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos]; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Herbert Morrison; [1st] Lord Samuel; Duncan Sandys; Emanuel Shinwell; [1st] Lord Simon [of Stackpole Elidor]; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso]; Oliver Stanley; George Tomlinson; Ellen Wilkinson; Henry Willink; and [1st Lord] Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]. Arranged alphabetically.Subjects covered in the speeches include: national expenditure; foreign policy; democracy; WSC's reference to a 'Gestapo'; housing; nationalisation and state control.
Dates
- Creation: 09 Jun 1945 - 01 Aug 1945
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Extent
1 file(s) (1 bound file (84 folios))
Language of Materials
English
External Documents
Subject
- Labour Party (Organization)
- Liberal Party (Organization)
- Conservative Party (Organization)
- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 336087
archives@chu.cam.ac.uk