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Literary: "The Second World War": miscellanea., 1947 - 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/401

Scope and Contents

Includes: contents list of WSC's "Secret Box No II"; unidentified extract on the Soviet Union; details of "missing" telegrams for 1941, 1942, and 1945; lists of WSC's speeches, 1935-44, and messages, 1943 and 1944; copies of February 1942 telegram from President Franklin Roosevelt and WSC's reply on Lend-lease; the Times reprint of WSC's broadcast (dated 22 March 1943; [broadcast on 21 March]) entitled "A Four Years' Plan for Britain" [for WSC's original notes see CHAR 9/161]; printed tables of civilian deaths and aircraft losses; regulations for using Chatham House Library, London; copies of the Times Reviews of the Year for 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1945.Also includes notes on printing and locating material in the archives by WSC and research assistants and secretaries: [William] Deakin, "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow], [Denis] Kelly, "M G" [Monica Graham], "L M M" [Lettice Marston, later Lettice Shillingford], [Brigadier Curtis], "E G" [Elizabeth Gilliatt], and [Lieutenant-General Sir Henry] Pownall; and later 1962 notes [by Martin Gilbert].

Dates

  • Creation: 1947 - 1951

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 item(s) (1 file (92 loose folios))

Language of Materials

English