(Untitled), 07 Jun 1945

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198B/161

Scope and Contents

Letter from [Alan] Hodge [Private Secretary] (Admiralty) to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] marked "private" stating that Brendan Bracken [First Lord of the Admiralty] has remarked that "as Sir James Marchant is one of the biggest bores alive, a ranting Methodist, pushful, wholly undesirable, and a gentleman whose projects would do no honour to the Prime Minister, he feels that he could not oblige you by seeing him". [Signed typescript].

Dates

Creation: 07 Jun 1945

Conditions Governing Access

From the File:

Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.