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Correspondence A - Z, 1944-12 - 1946-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/39

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Correspondents include: Ian Henderson, Foreign Office; Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre] on subjects including his Indian divisions (4); 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood (2); Victor Altmann (3); [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]; 3rd Lord Selborne [Minister of Economic Warfare, earlier Lord Wolmer]; Sir William Croft [Chief Civil Assistant to Minister of State in Cairo, Egypt]; Walter Amstutz on republishing Winston Churchill's "My Early Life" in German (4); Daniel Macmillan [Chairman and Managing Director of Macmillan and Company Limited] (2); Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer [later 1st Lord Waverley] on economic negotiations with the United States after the war (2); Viola, Lady Apsley; Sir Cyril Ashford; Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, thanking LSA for his generosity on the results of the General Election and regretting that LSA was no longer in Parliament (2); General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief in India, on subjects including the political deadlock in India, the decline in British influence, army pay, progress in Burma [later Myanmar], broadening military training in the future and (writing to Ralegh Phillpotts, Chairman of the British Tabulating Machine Company), the success of the machines in intelligence work (5); 1st Lord Baldwin on subjects including his financial situation and sympathy with LSA over the General Election (5); Penelope Balogh; Jacques Bardoux; Sir Ernest Barker; Robert Barrington-Ward [Editor of the Times] (2); Sir Edward Benthall, Member for War Transport, Governor-General of India’s Executive Council; Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including avoiding a premature decision on the status of the South Tyrol and the repatriation of Austrian prisoners of war (4); Sir Shanti Bhatnagar; Princess Marthe Bibesco; 1st Lord Birdwood on subjects including released prisoners of war from the Indian Army, the failure of the Simla Conference on the future of India and the loss of the General Election (8); Edwin Haward, Secretary of the India-Burma Association; Brendan Bracken [First Lord of the Admiralty]; Francis Brett-Young; Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] on LSA's ideas for the post-war Army and the Mountain Warfare School (3); Arthur Bryant (2); Sir Christopher Bullock; Rohan Butler; Lieutenant-General Adrian Carton de Wiart, special military representative with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, on subjects including the visits of Lord Louis Mountbatten [Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia] and Julian Amery to China; Robert Cary [former Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA] on subjects including appointing a new governor for Madras, creating an Empire Trade Secretariat and LSA's part in the development of family allowances (6); Richard Casey, Governor of Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India] (2); Joseph Coudurier de Chassaigne [George Saint-Clair] (3); Lieutenant-General Mark Clark, Commanding General 15th Army Group, on his Indian divisions (2); Sir Bede Clifford; Conway Conway; [Alfred] Duff Cooper [British Ambassador to France, later 1st Lord Norwich]; Sir George Courthope, Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company, on the silver shortage; Cecil, Lady Craigavon (2); Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps on LSA's policy on the government of India (2); Lionel Curtis; Margot, Lady Davson; Sir Hugh Dow, Governor of Sind; George Drew, Prime Minister of Ontario [Canada] on asserting Ontario's future with the Commonwealth; Sir Paul Dukes; 2nd Lord Elibank on his motion about the Most Favoured Nation clause; Ermine, Lady Elibank; Sir [Edward] Lionel Fletcher (2); Sir Frank Fox; A F Frangulis, Permanent Secretary-General of Académie Diplomatique Internationale; 1st Lord Greenwood; Sir Edward Grigg, Minister Resident in the Middle East [later 1st Lord Altrincham] on subjects including his impression of Julian Amery, opportunities missed in East Africa, the situation in Palestine and Syria and avoiding a long-term commitment to the United States (4); 1st Lord Hailey [Chairman of the Colonial Research Committee] on LSA's scheme for an interim Indian constitution; Sir Richard Nosworthy [Minister (Commercial) at Rome, Italy]; 1st Lord Simon, Lord Chancellor; 4th Lord Harlech [earlier William Ormsby-Gore] on the sugar industry of Java [Jawa, Indonesia] and Britain's failure to develop India; [George] Heaton Nicholls [South African High Commissioner in Britain]; Walter Hingston, India Office (2); Quintin Hogg [later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone] thanking LSA for his congratulations on his appointment [as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air]; Lionel James; Sir Roderick Jones on subjects including LSA's statesmanship with India and his sympathy with him over John Amery (2); Bernard Curson [Assistant Private Secretary to LSA]; Alec Joyce, India Office; 1st Lord Lambert; Patrick de Laszlo on setting up factories in India; Sir John Latham; [Beatrice] Violet, Lady Leconfield; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun]; 5th Lord Listowel [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, India Office, earlier Lord Ennismore]; Malcolm MacDonald, British High Commissioner in Canada, on his decision not to stand in the General Election; Sir Dougal Malcolm; Arthur Drew, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, on the repatriation of Austrian prisoners of war; General Sir Richard McCreery [commander of the Eighth Army in Italy] on his Indian divisions; Sir Humphrey Milford, Publisher to the University of Oxford; Charles Mott-Radclyffe on leaving his position [as Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA]; Mehmed Munir Bey; Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Donald Munro; 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence]; Harry Wimperis, the Athenaeum; Bernard Myers; Harold Nicolson (2); Sir Firoz Khan Noon (writing to Florence Amery); 16th Duke of Norfolk [earlier Lord Arundel] declining the Governorship of Madras; Sir Cyril Norwood (3); Catharine, Lady Norwood (2); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer on subjects including the political situation in South Africa (2); Marie, Lady Willingdon, Chairman of the Over-Seas League, asking LSA to stand for re-election as Vice-President; Sir Arthur Page (3); Gaston Palewski, Private Secretary to Charles de Gaulle; Sir Charles Petrie, Managing Editor, New English Review; Morgan Phillips (3); 1st Lord Queenborough [earlier Almeric Paget]; Sir [Abraham] Jeremy Raisman [Finance Member of Government of India]; Margaret Hornsby-Smith, Ministry of Economic Warfare; Eleanor Rathbone on an amendment to the Family Allowance Bill; Major-General Denys Reid; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; Gisela Richter; Major-General Dudley Russell, Commander, 8th Indian Infantry Division; Duncan Duncan-Sandys, Minister of Works; 1st Lord Schuster [Alpine Club]; James Chuter-Ede, Home Secretary; Anton Bon (3); Raja Sir Maharaj Singh; Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on economic negotiations with the United States, holding on to former Italian colonies in Africa, British territorial losses under the peace treaty, the likely execution of John Amery and the ambitions of the Soviet Union (3); Sir Donald Somervell on his sympathy [over John Amery]; Cornelia Sorabji (2); Wilson Southam, the Ottawa Citizen (4); Harold Spink, Director of Spink and Son Limited, on buying jewellery and paintings from LSA (3); Marie Stopes, President of the Mothers’ Clinic for Constructive Birth-Control; Sir Ronald Storrs on his visit to Egypt; 1st Lord Riverdale [Vice-Chairman of the British Council, earlier Arthur Balfour]; 1st Lord Tyrrell; Henry Strauss [later 1st Lord Conesford]; Frank Taylor, Ministry of War Transport Finance Representative overseas; Viorel Tilea; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet] on Tilea's paper about Romania; [Nicholas] Robin Udal, Secretary of the Athenæum; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff]; G M Trevelyan on the task ahead in the Far East and his concerns about future party factions; Arnold Ward; Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell [Viceroy of India]; 2nd Duke of Westminster [earlier Lord Belgrave]; John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary] to Winston Churchill, Prime Minister; [Arthur] Basil Williams; Malcolm Hay, Chairman of the Orde Wingate Memorial Executive Committee; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Hugh Wyndham [later 4th Lord Leconfield] on Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick's responsibility for the minute's silence on Armistice Day.

Also includes: notes by Lady Apsley on a Conservative Travel and Holidays Association and on ways of improving the party machine; draft declaration by LSA on the future government of India; memorandum by Viorel Tilea on Romania's future contribution to an Allied victory.

Dates

  • Creation: 1944-12 - 1946-01

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

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4 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

Box 167

Finding aid date

2004-07-07 11:46:57.420000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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