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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Prin-Roos., 1941 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/307

Scope and Contents

File includes correspondence with: The Printers' Pension, Almshouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation, including annotated draft of message on the Corporation's 120th anniversary, 1947-48 (14pp); The Pulchri Studio, The Netherlands, on invitation to become honorary member, including correspondence with Sir Nevile Bland, British Ambassador, The Hague (4), on the Studio, and Queen Wilhelmina's decision to resign from the Studio because of its "pro-Nazi" activities during the German occupation (40pp) 1946-48; Queen's University, Belfast, on election as Vice-President of the Law Society, 1948; Thelma Cazalet-Keir (3) and Graham White (2) on the Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Fund, (of which WSC was a Sponsor) 1946-47 (11pp); The Combined Services Recruiting Exhibition Oxford Street, London, on use of quotation from one of his speeches, 1948; James Chuter Ede, Home Secretary, on attendance at Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph, with order of Ceremonial, 1946 (11pp); The University of Rochester, New York, United States, (20) on award of honorary degree, and arrangements for WSC to broadcast to the University, with text of his speech (see also CHAR 9/151), 1941-42 (60pp); The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway Company, Littlestone, Kent, (9) on naming their new locomotive "Winston Churchill", including booklet on the railway "The Line that Jack Built" 1948; correspondence on WSC's support for the Roosevelt Memorial in Grosvenor Square, London, including letters from members of the general public in the United States objecting to WSC's comparison of Franklin Roosevelt with Washington and Lincoln, letters from Ethel Strudwick, High Mistress of St Paul's Girl's School, Hammersmith, London, Lord Lambert and others objecting to the design of the statue by Sir William Reid Dick, letter from Clement Attlee, Prime Minister to WSC, praising the statue and asking if he wished to see it, with copy of WSC's reply stating that the statue ought to be seated as "it was in the seated position...that he played his great part in world history" rather than standing, carbon copy of Attlee's broadcast appeal for funds for the memorial, letters from Lord Greenwood (formerly Hamar Greenwood) (3), Chairman of "The Pilgrims" on his support for the appeal, letter from Sir William Reid Dick, asking him to view the statue, with copy of WSC's reply stating that he felt that the statue should be in the sitting position, and that he intended to press the matter in the House of Commons, with two copies of souvenir booklet given to subscribers to the Fund, 1946-47 (92pp).

Dates

  • Creation: 1941 - 1948

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 unbound file, 247 items)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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