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Speeches: Miscellaneous quotations and other material., 1940 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/210

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence from various individuals suggesting quotations to be included in WSC' speeches including: Major General Edward Spears; Brendan Bracken; Malcolm Macdonald; Thomas Johnston (2); Very Reverand Cyril Alington, Dean of Durham; Harry Crookshank; "Jack" [John] Lawson; [1st Lord] Mottistone [earlier John Seely]; Robert Chapman; Sybil, Lady Cholmondeley; Sir Waldron Smithers; [Sir Richard] Stafford Cripps; Ernest Bevin and General Hastings Ismay.Also includes correspondence suggesting topics to be included in speeches from various individuals including: John McCarthy; Sir John Latham; Irene Ward; and Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary]. Issues suggested include the Home Guard, factory and business work during the war, recruitment to the army, the use of the term "New Order", and mine clearance work.Notes and copies of letters of acknowledgements from John Peck [Private Secretary to WSC], John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC], Elizabeth Layton [Secretary to WSC], Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC], and Colonel Harvie Watt [Parliamentary Private Secretary to WSC].

Dates

  • Creation: 1940 - 1945

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 bound file (136 folios))

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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