(Untitled), 30 May 1916

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/72/30-31

Scope and Contents

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] (36 Berkeley Square, [London]) to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [later Lord Jellicoe] on: a request from Sir Maurice de Bunsen that Fisher put his name to a press interview praising the military conduct of the war [see CHAR 2/72/33-34]; the loss of valuable plant from the United States resulting from the sinking of the White Star vessel Cymric, which should have travelled in convoy; the stationing of British destroyers in the Mediterranean; the lending by Britain of mercantile shipping to Italy even though the latter has not declared war on Germany; the increasing prosperity of the poor and the high taxation of the rich; the "fleecing" of Britain by her allies; the waste of British manpower in non-combatant jobs. Typescript copy.

Dates

Creation: 30 May 1916

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