Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings: VIPs., 1954
Scope and Contents
Correspondents (on WSC's 80th birthday) include: Juan Peron, President of Argentina; Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia; Julius Raab, Chancellor of Austria; Joao Filho, President of Brazil; Terence Grady, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary (4); Louis St Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada; Hans Hedtoft, Prime Minister of Denmark; Hector Molina, President of the Dominican republic; Joho Paasikivi, President of Finland; Urho Kekkonen, Prime Minister of Finland; Rene Coty, President of France; [Pierre] Mendes-France, Prime Minister of France; Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, Prime Minister of Greece; Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India; Ali Sastroamidjojo, Prime Minister of Indonesia; Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy; [William] Alexander Bustamente, Prime Minister of Jamaica; Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister of Japan; Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg; George Borg-Olivier, Prime Minister of Malta; Matrika Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal; W Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Richard Campbell, Acting High Commissioner for New Zealand; Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand; General Anastasio Somaza, President of Nicaragua; [1st Lord] Brookeborough [earlier Basil Brooke], Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; Oscar Torp, Prime Minister of Norway; Harold Smedley of the Commonwealth Relations Office; Sir Godfrey Huggins [later 1st Lord Malvern], Prime Minister of Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe and Zambia] and Nyasaland [Malawi]; Daniel Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa; Garfield Todd, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia; Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden; Field Marshal Pibulson, Prime Minister of Thailand; Adnan Menders, Prime Minister of Turkey; Ngon Sananikone, Minister Plenipoteniary Vietnam; Josip Tito, President of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Queen Elizabeth II and Marina, Duchess of Kent; King Frederik IX of Denmark; Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; King Paul of Greece; Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg; Prince Knud of Denmark; King Michael of Roumania [Romania]; [Sir Maurice] Hankey; Gustaf VI, King of Sweden; Princess Ingeborg of Sweden; Archduke Otto of Austria; Queen Elisabeth of Belgium; Hailie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia; Edward, Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward Prince of Wales and Edward VIII]; [Edward] Duke of Kent; Princess Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands; Prince Olav of Norway; King Haakon VII of Norway; Princess Arthur of Connaught; Dr Najib Ullah, Afghanistan Ambassador to Great Britain; Winthrop Aldrich, United States Ambassador to Great Britain; Thomas White, High Commissioner for Australia; Sir John Lienhop, Agent-General for Victoria [Australia]; Dr Lothar Wimmer, Austrian Ambassador to Great Britain; Enrique Balmaceda, Chilean Ambassador to Great Britain; Rene Massigli, French Ambassador to Great Britain; Agnar Jonsson, Minister for Iceland; B Chakravarty, High Commissioner for India; Frederick Boland, Irish Ambassador to Great Britain; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Great Britain; Myo Mook Lee, Korean Minister to Great Britain; Shanker Shamshere, Nepalese Ambassador to Great Britain; Dirk Stikker, Netherlands Ambassador to Great Britain; Per Prebensen, Norwegian Ambassador to Great Britain; Andrew Stark and John Graham, Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary; Henry de Torrente, Swiss Ambassador to Great Britain; Jose Quadros, Uraquay Ambassador to Great Britain; Nguyen Khao Ve, Vietnamese Minister to Great Britain; Dr Vladimir Velebit, Yugoslav Ambassador to Great Britain; Prince Mohammed Ali; Sir Sadiq Mohammad, Ameer of Bahawalpur [Pakistan]; Georges Bidault; Sir Noel Bowater; Lord Carisbrooke [earlier Alexander Mountbatten]; Cameron Cobbold; Clement Davies; George Drew; John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State; Sir George Dunbar; Pierre Dupuy, Canadian Ambassador to Italy; General Sir James Edmonds; Sir Lincoln Evans; Dingle Foot; Gwilym Lloyd George [later 1st Lord Tenby]; [2nd] Lord Glentanar [earlier Thomas Coats]; General Sir Alexander Godley; [7th] Lord Gort [earlier Standish Vereker]; [5th] Lord Granville [earlier Granville Leveson]; Sir John Harding, Chief of Imperial General Staff; Edonard Herriot; Major-General Sir Percy Hobart; Sir Richard Hopkins; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton], Minister of State for Colonial Affairs; Sir [Harold] Anthony Nutting, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs; Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog; Sir Ian Jacob, Director-General of the BBC; the Sultan of Johore [Malaysia]; [1st] Lord Leathers; Leslie Lever; [1st] Lord Llewellin, Governor General and Commander in Chief of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; General George Marshall; Rene Mayer; "Monty" [1st Lord Montgomery]; Allan Noble; [4th] Lord Normanby [earlier Lord Mulgrave]; [1st] Lord Nuffield [earlier William Morris]; Archbishop Gerald O Hara; Sir Earle Page, Australian Minister for Health; General Sir Frederick Pile; Pope Pius XII; [2nd] Lord Reading [earlier Gerald Isaacs]; [1st] Lord Salter; Eric Seal, former Private Secretary to WSC]; William Slim; General [Walter] Bedell Smith; Sir Waldron Smithers; Brigadier John Smyth; Admiral [Harold] Stark; James Henderson Stewart; Jacobus Strauss, Leader of the South Africa United Party; [5th] Duke of Sutherland [earlier Lord Stafford]; George Theunis; Dorothy Thompson; Nawab Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana; Harry Truman, President of the United States; Harold Watkinson; Sir Lionel Whitby; and Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above and notes and copies of correspondence from John Colville and Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretaries to WSC]; copies of telegrams from Sir Matthew Oram, Speaker of the House of Representatives, New Zealand, General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Sir Nevil Brownjohn, Minister of Defence, and James Harford, Governor of St Helena; and copies of statements about WSC made by Robert Schuman, [Pierre] Mendes-France, Prime Minister of France; and Vincent Auriol, President of France.
Dates
- Creation: 1954
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Extent
3 file(s) (3 files (600 loose folios))
Language of Materials
English
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