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Correspondence A - K, 1944-01 - 1945-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/37

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Joseph Agius (3); Sir Mohamed Akbar Khan on the Indian Comforts Fund and American criticism of the Indian Army; 9th Lord Albemarle [earlier Lord Bury]; Princess Alexandra of Greece (2); Herve Alphand [Director of Economic Affairs for the French National Committee in London] on a proposal for financial arrangements between France and Britain; Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer [later 1st Lord Waverley] on subjects including a paper by LSA on the sterling problem (2); Sir Archibald Wavell, Viceroy of India, on the suspension of the Ministry and the famine in Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India] (2); Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] on support from some members of the Labour Party for the Communist-backed India League; George Baker; 1st Lord Baldwin (3); Richard Law [Minister of State, later 1st Lord Coleraine]; Thomas Balogh on getting his parents a visa for Palestine (2); Colin Thornley [Principal Private Secretary to Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Oliver Stanley on getting a visa for Balogh's parents; Jacques Bardoux on his relations with the Vichy Government of France and his contacts with Charles de Gaulle [leader of the Free French]; Robert Barrington-Ward [Editor of the Times] (2); 1st Lord Birdwood; representatives of the Birmingham Public Opinion Action Association, with resolutions including a demand for interest-free housing loans after the war and a protest against the Allied treatment of the liberated Greeks (4); Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Boucher, Commander 17th Indian Infantry Brigade, on LSA's visit to the brigade; General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to Minister of Defence, Winston Churchill]; Sir Frank Brown; Arthur Bryant; Malcolm Burr; Sir Montague Burton; R A Butler [Minister of Education] on Cabinet discussions about food shipments to India, the Attachment Bill and Wavell's underestimation of the political problems of India (4); William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (2); Robert Cary [Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA] on subjects including leaving LSA to become [a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury] (3); Ethel Casey; Somerset de Chair; Sir Noel Charles, British High Commissioner in Italy (2); John Peck [Private Secretary to Churchill], thanking LSA for his letter on losing 5th Lord Munster [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India and for Burma (later Myanmar), earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence] and on post-war organization of the Armed Forces; Lieutenant-General Mark Clark, Commander of the Fifth Army on LSA's visit to his headquarters, and the behaviour of Indian troops in the Italian campaign; Sydney Coles (8); Sir Richard Cooper; 1st Lord Crewe [earlier 2nd Lord Houghton] recalling his time as Secretary of State for India; Sir William Croft [Chief Civil Assistant to Minister of State in Cairo, Egypt] on the departure of Richard Casey [Minister of State] and appointing Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham] as his successor (3); John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (4); Lionel Curtis on the next conference on British Commonwealth relations; Clement Davies; Cecilia Dawson on the death of Geoffrey Dawson [earlier Geoffrey Robinson]; Sir T Drummond Shiels (2); Alice, Lady Duncan; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including LSA's views on the future of Western Europe, Yugoslav politicians trying to position themselves favourably with Marshal Tito and LSA's view that Britain had backed the wrong side in both Poland and Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] (5); Dorothy, Lady Halifax; Walter Elliot on his view of a solution to the political deadlock in India; Negley Farson (7); Keith Feiling on quoting letters from LSA to [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain on Churchill being a blight at the Treasury (1929) and on Chamberlain's speech on the Munich Crisis (2); [George] Howard Ferguson on LSA's handing of Indian affairs, the failure of Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to India and India's future trading prospects; Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (2); Sir William Furse; [Leonard] David Gammans; Charles de Gaulle; Yvonne de Gaulle on the liberation of Paris [France]; Arthur Goodhart; Eric Gore-Browne; Sir Charles Grant; 1st Lord Greenwood; Carleton Allen, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford; Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham] on his latest book [? "British Foreign Policy"]; Percy Groves, Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department; Nellie Guedalla; 1st Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on international Indian representation and American press comment about Eden leaving the Foreign Office (2); Mary Glasgow, Secretary of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (5); Sir Ian Hamilton (2); H W Harding (3); Sir Harold Hartley; Henry Thursfield; A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty]; Maurice Headlam; Professor A V Hill [Scientific Adviser, Government of India]; Lord Hinchingbrooke [Chairman of the Tory Reform Committee, later 10th Lord Sandwich, then (Alexander) Victor Montagu] on the dispute in the committee and his decision to make way for Quintin Hogg [later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone] as the new chairman; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] on his decision to accept a peerage and enter the House of Lords, rather than remain in the House of Commons; Jessie, Lady Holdsworth (4); Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary; Robert Hudson [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries] on his concerns about economic internationalism; Graham Hutchinson (4); Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Hutton [Secretary, War Resources and Reconstruction Committees of Council (India)] on his retirement from the army.

Dates

  • Creation: 1944-01 - 1945-05

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

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

Extent

3 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

Box 166

Date information

DateText: The majority of items date from January-December 1944.

Finding aid date

2004-07-01 14:31:45.640000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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