Public and Political: General: Greetings: Election and Victory; congratulations and condolences., Jul 1945
Scope and Contents
Correspondents (on victory in Japan and on WSC's election defeat) include: Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada]; Evan Durbin, MP; Admiral Sir Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax; Frances Perkins [United States Secretary of Labour]; Goodha Shum Shere, Maharajah of Nepal; King George of Greece; Neville Lytton; [George] Carpenter, General of the Salvation Army; Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Grenfell; [1st Lord] Lytton; Major-General Francois Theron; Sir Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay; John Martin, MP; Anne Chamberlain; Harry Truman, President of the United States; Major General Claire Chennault; Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France; Admiral William Leahy [Chief of Staff to the President of the United States]; John Andrews, former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; Katharine, Duchess of Atholl; Alice, Lady Avebury; Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt]; "Bernie" [Bernard] Baruch; Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells; the Nawab of Bhopal; Patrick Buchan Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes]; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; George Cornwallis-West; [David] Percy Davies, Editor of the News of the World; Alfred, the Bishop of Dover; Walter Eliot; Haile Sallassie, Emperor of Ethiopia; Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Gibb; 6th Lord Gort [earlier John Vereker]; Major Sir Derrick Gunston; Captain Alan Hillgarth, Chief of British Naval Intelligence, Eastern Theatre; [2nd] Lord Hollenden; Sir Leslie Hollis; Major-General Noel Holmes; Harold Laski; [1st] Lord Lee of Fareham; Sir Francis Lindley; Sir Eustace Pulbrook, Chairman of Lloyds'; [5th] Lord Lucan [earlier Charles Bingham]; Dame Beatrix Lyall; General George Marshall; [1st] Lord McGowan, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited; Sir Thomas Nettlefold, Lord Mayor of Melbourne [Australia]; Sheila, Lady Milbanke; Henry Morgenthau; the Duke of Nemours; Princess Juliana of the Netherlands; Major Leslie Curran, Chief Unionist Whip, Northern Ireland Government; King Haakon of Norway; Sir Earle Page; Brigadier-General George Paynter; Maurice Petherick; Antonio Salazar, President of Portugal; Eleanor Roosevelt; Reverend Francis Spellman, Archbishop of New York [United States]; Sir Howard d'Egville; Lord Stanley of Alderley [later 6th Lord Sheffield, earlier Edward Stanley]; Sir Robert Tasker; Gwladys, Lady Townshend; [2nd] Lord Tredegar [earlier Evan Morgan]; Francis McCombe [Counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington, United States]; the Duke of Braganza; Eleanor Emery, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Dominions; Frank Giles, Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Douglas Fairbanks; [2nd] Lord Elibank [earlier Gideon Murray]; John Profumo; John Llewellin, Minister of Food; R A Butler; Walter Lippman; Harry Hopkins; Sir Walter Monckton; [Florence] Booth; and Joan, Lady Davidson.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; notes and copies of correspondence from Kathleen Hill and "N S " ["Jo" Sturdee, later Lady Onslow] [Secretaries to WSC] and Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister, Clement Attlee] and John Colville [Assistant Private Secretary to Prime Minister, Clement Attlee] concerning Attlee's wish that assistance should be given to WSC in responding to correspondence.
Dates
- Creation: Jul 1945
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Open
Extent
1 item(s) (1 file (298 loose folios))
Language of Materials
English
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