Skip to main content

Copy of a telegram from WSC to [Robert] Menzies [Prime Minister of Australia] regarding a loan to Burma [later Myanmar] to be debated [in the House of Commons], 4 May 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/12/1

Scope and Contents

Stating that it would be difficult for WSC to support the loan and asking how much it mattered to Menzies. Also expressing concern about the Karens [ethnic group in Burma, now Myanmar], that the Burma Government had "treated us with great ingratitude and harshness in all matters of British property", and that WSC felt it would be better to concentrate on Malaya [later part of Malaysia].

Dates

  • Creation: 4 May 1950

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.

This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.

Extent

1 item(s)

External Documents

Custodial History

This item is stamped with a “W.S.C.” stamp, so was part of the Churchill papers which were stamped by the Public Record Office in 1961-1964. On cataloguing attached to a piece of paper annotated "2/94" [CHUR 2/94].

Related Materials

Related to the Churchill Papers [from CHUR 2/94]. Particularly related to CHUR 2/94/199-204, correspondence and papers on the Commonwealth Burma loan agreement.

Bibliography

Published in 'The Churchill Documents' volume 22 'Leader of the Opposition August 1945 to October 1951' by Martin Gilbert and Larry P Arnn, p.1740.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

Contact:
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 336087