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"My Political Life": correspondence for Volume IV, 1950-04 - 1959-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/82

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alanbrooke [former Chief of Imperial General Staff, earlier Sir Alan Brooke] on subjects including strategic bombing policy (4); Francis Turnbull [former Principal Private Secretary to LSA as Secretary of State for India] (2); Graham Spry [former Personal Assistant to Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps and member of the Cripps Mission to India] (2); Sir Arthur Lothian [former British Resident at Hyderabad] on relations with the Indian Princes (4); Major-General Ian Playfair, Cabinet Office (2); Andrew Acheson [Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Office]; John Ehrman [Historian, Cabinet Office] (4); Professor James Butler [Chief Historian for the Official Military Histories of War]; Sir Norman Brook [Secretary of the Cabinet, later 1st Lord Normanbrook] on allowing LSA access to Cabinet Office records (3); Sir Percivale Liesching [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office] on allowing LSA access to India Office records (2); 1st Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham]; Flora, Lady Lugard; Margery Perham, on borrowing LSA's letters from the Lugards (2); Arthur Magnay (writing to Sir Arthur Lothian [British Resident at Hyderabad, 1942-46]) after LSA's death to suggest that Lothian should finish Volume IV in order to give a true picture of LSA's Indian policy during the war.

Also includes: press cutting; map of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia].

Dates

  • Creation: 1950-04 - 1959-04

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

1 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

Box 230

Finding aid date

2004-12-16 12:43:28.793000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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