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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings., 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/456A-B

Scope and Contents

Correspondents (concerning birthday wishes to WSC) include: Viorel Tilea; "Crankie" [Sir Edward Crankshaw]; Reginald Fellowes; Sir James Dunn; Major-General Ernest Walford; Gustav Rasmussen, Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs; Georges Bidault, French Foreign Minister; Leslie Rowan; Thomas Dewey; George Drew; "Bill" [Berkeley] Ormerod, Head of British Information Services, New York [United States]; "Betty", Admiral Harold Stark; Averell [Harriman]; Mackenzie King; William Mabane; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe] Chairman of the Conservative Party; Sir George Harvie-Watt; Sir [Percy] Malcolm Stewart; Sir Patrick Hannon; "Pug" [1st] Lord Ismay; [5th] Duke of Palmella, Portuguese Ambassador to Great Britain; Sir Newman Flower; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst]; [Harold] Anthony Nutting; Lord Rupert Nevill; William Surrey Dane; Stefan Thorvardsson, Icelandic Minister to Great Britain; Leonard [1st Lord] Lyle; Sir Frank Sanderson; Sir Thomas Moore; Lord Ivor Churchill; Sir Clive Morrison Bell; Paul Maze; Sir Richard Hopkins; Sir Patrick Hannon; Charles Eade; Charles Wood [former literary assistant to WSC]; Eric [3rd Lord] Long; Esmond [2nd Lord] Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth]; [1st Lord] Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson]; "Freddy" [2nd Lord Birkenhead, earlier Frederick Smith]; Sir Arthur Salter; [Rupert] de la Bere; Allan Noble; Albert Alexander [later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough]; Leslie Hore-Belisha; Lord Leathers [later 1st Lord Leathers]; Charles Nicholl; [Sir Richard] Pim; Andrew [1st Lord] Cunningham; [1st] Lord Hyndley; Sir Ernest Swinton; Princess Arthur of Connaught; [1st Lord] Balfour of Inchrye; [1st] Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson]; Frederick Lister; Sir Arnold Gridley; [Edward] George Churchill; Herbert Morrison; Sir Oswald Birley; Clement Davies; Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe [later 1st Lord Killmuir]; Sir William Darling; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Alfred Bossom; Henry Luce; [1st] Lord Portal of Hungerford; 1st Lord Athlone; "Elsie" [Elizabeth] Lady Salisbury [earlier Elizabeth, Lady Cranbourne]; Leo Amery; Walter Graebner; Lewis Douglas; R A Butler; Sir Walter Lamb; Horatia Seymour; Julian Sandys; "Mollie" [Margaret], Duchess of Buccleuch [earlier Margaret, Lady Dalkeith]; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; Desmond Flower; [Lord] Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis and later 1st Lord Woolton]; Nicholas Soames; Benno Elkan; Frank Clarke; Winston Churchill; [17th] Duke of Alba; "Ike" [Dwight] Eisenhower; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands; Sarah [Beauchamp, earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] and Antony Beauchamp; King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; Harry Truman; Clement Attlee; "Max" [1st] Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; Jan Smuts; Haakon, King of Norway; Gustaf, Prince of Sweden; Frank Sawyers; Ralph Moore, Headmaster of Harrow School; John Foster Dulles; [1st Lord] Davidson; Patrick Donner; [6th] Lord Donegall [earlier Lord Templemore]; "Bill", [1st Lord] Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry]; Pamela [Lady Lytton, earlier Pamela Plowden]; Charles Rhys [later 8th Lord Dynevor]; Lady Juliet Duff; Per Prebensen, Norwegian Ambassador to Great Britain; [Sir Andrew] Duncan; John Andrews; Mary, Duchess of Marlborough; Pamela Churchill [later Pamela Harriman]; Harry [1st Lord] McGowan; [Rene] Massigli; Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt; Gomer [1st Lord Kemsley, earlier James Berry]; Henry de Torrente; June Churchill; Randolph Churchill and Arabella Churchill; Sir Frederick Cripps; Sir Godfrey Thomas; Sir Hartley Shawcross; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso]; Lady Lilian Grenfell [earlier Lady Lilian Spencer-Churchill]; Guy Fanshawe; Peter Fraser; [1st Lord] Baldwin; Hugh Frewen; Robert Menzies; Odette Pol Roger; William Deakin; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; James Henderson-Stewart; Patrick Kinna; Christabel [Lady] Aberconway; "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster]; Frances, Lady Lloyd George; Claude Grahame-White; [Arthur] Waters, Editor of the News of the World; George Crosfield; and [Allan] Noble.Also includes: copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; notes and copies of correspondence from Elizabeth Gilliatt, Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], "Chips" Gemmel and "N S" ["Jo" Sturdee, later Lady Onslow], Secretaries to WSC; summaries of gifts and letters received; and an illustration of WSC.

Dates

  • Creation: 1949

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

2 file(s) (560 loose folios)

Language of Materials

English

Existence and Location of Copies

Folio 374: Copyright holder (John Foster Dulles) has withheld permission for online publication. Available at Churchill Archives Centre.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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