Public and Political: General: Greetings: various bodies and officials in the United Kingdom and overseas., Nov 1954 - Dec 1954
Scope and Contents
Correspondents (concerning birthday greetings to WSC) include: Gilbert Murray, President of the League of Nations Union; Robert Macalister, Mayor of Wellington [New Zealand]; John Graham (11) and Terence Grady (7) Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary; Charles Geddes, President, and Sir [Harold] Vincent Tewson, of the Trades Union Congress; Sir Anthony Nutting, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Commonwealth delegations to the United Nations; Sir Robert Urquhart, British Ambassador to Venezuela; Sir Gerald Kelly, President of the Royal Academy of Arts; Mamoru Shigermitsu, Vice-President of the Japan Democratic Party; General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Malcolm Macdonald, Commissioner General in South East Asia; Thomas Page, Speaker of the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia]; Sir Leonard Outerbridge, Lieutenant-General of Newfoundland [Canada]; Sir Willoughby Norrie, Governor General and Commander in Chief New Zealand; Robert Wagner, Mayor of New York [United States]; Lord Mackintosh of Halifax, Chairman of the National Savings Committee; Antonio Salazar, President of the Council of Ministers of Portugal; Sir George Rendel; Sir [Duncan] Ross Maclarty, Premier of Western Australia; James Dimmitt, Agent General for Western Australia; Robert Hawke; Sir Thomas Hickinbotham, Governor and Commander in Chief, Aden [later Yemen]; Harold Smedley (6), Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Ronald Belcher of the Commonwealth Relations Office with advice concerning replies; Anthony Hurd, Guild of Agricultural Journalists; Sir Esler Dening, British Ambassador to Japan; Frank Ogden, Consul General, Basra [Iraq]; Humphrey Trevelyan, Charge d'affaires in Peking [later Beijing, China]; Paul Gore-Booth, British Ambassador in Burma [later Myanmar]; Sir Frank Roberts, British Ambassador to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Robert Hankey, British Ambassador to Sweden; Sir John Troutbeck, British Ambassador to Iraq; Sir Geoffrey Wallinger, British Ambassador to Austria; Scott Fox, Charge d'affaires in Ankara [Turkey]; Walter Graha, British Minister to Korea; Sir Roger Makins [later 1st Lord Sherfield], British Ambassador to the United States; Sir Gladwyn Jebb, British Ambassador to France; Sir [William] Ivo Mallett, British Ambassador to Spain; Hugh Stephenson, British Ambassador to Vietnam; Asa Pritchard, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Bahamas; Paul-Henri Spaak, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Belgium; Sir John Cox, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Bermuda; Sir Eustace Woolford, Speaker of the House of Assembly, British Guiana [Guyana]; Lieutenant- General Sir Alexander Hood, Governor and Commander in Chief, Bermuda; Sir Eric Errington, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Conservative Central Office; Cardinal Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster; London; [1st] Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson], Chairman of the Carlton Club; Sir Edward Bridges on behalf of the Civil Service; General Sir Nevil Brownjohn on behalf of the Chiefs of Staff; Gunnar Thorvaldson, President of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce; [1st] Lord Citrine of the British Electricity Authority; Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick on behalf of the Foreign Service; Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar, United Kingdom, High Commissioner of Germany; Sir Percy Wyn Harris, Governor and Commander in Chief Gambia; [Robert James] Headmaster of Harrow School; Sir Hugh Foot [later 1st Lord Caradon], Governor and Commander in Chief, Jamaica; Ronald Guppy, Principal Private Secretary to Home Secretary; Cecilia Petrie, Mayor of Kensington, London; Edwin Chapman-Andrews, British Ambassador to the Lebanon; Victor Mishcon, Chairman of the London County Council; [2nd] Lord Luke [earlier Ian Johnston], President of the London Chamber of Commerce; Seymour Howard, Lord Mayor of London; Leonard Hutton of the Middlesex Cricket Club; Mabel Strickland of Malta Allied newspapers; [1st] Lord Athlone; General Sir Richard Gale, Commander in Chief of the Northern Army Group; and Gordon Wilson of the War Office. Also includes newspaper cuttings; notes and copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; and notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne and John Colville [Private Secretaries to WSC], Christopher Soames [Parliamentary Private Secretary to WSC] and Gwen Davies [Secretary to WSC].
Dates
- Creation: Nov 1954 - Dec 1954
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Extent
3 file(s) (3 files (900 loose folios))
Language of Materials
English
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