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Political correspondence A-C, 1940-10 - 1945-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BEVN 3/1

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Lord Addison re House of Lords reform; Leo Amery re India, Indian trainees in UK, Gandhi, Wavell, mining boys at Swinton, speech on public ownership, Trades Union Congress report on full employment, and Bretton Woods; Sir John Anderson re car taxation and treatment of industrial civil service; Clement Attlee re friction between Bevin and Citrine, letter from Laski re sales of Government ships to private owners and Attlee's proposed reply, agricultural policy, thanks for services to the Country, and letter from Bevin to Churchill, 30 May 1945; Lord Beaverbrook re common platform, conscription for women; Brendan Bracken re release of Sir Oswald Mosley; Winston Churchill re letter from Spencer Miller of New York on American attitudes, Bevin's broadcast to USA reference to Labour movement, achievements in manpower, Building Industry White Paper, demobilisation, Irving Berlin and reply by F.D.N. Brown, reallocation of labour at the end of the war with Germany, Trade Disputes Act, International Labour Office Conference including copy of Roosevelt telegram to Churchill re ILO and statement by Bevin to British Delegation, speech by Citrine to the ILO, men for Phoenix (Mulberry Harbour), MPs' visits to Concentration Camps, and thanks for services and offer of CH; Sir Walter Citrine re Daily Herald and Trade Union Movement; Viscount Cranborne re Ministry of Labour and Labour Officers in the Colonies, and Empire Defence Policy; Sir Stafford Cripps re the Aluminium Cartel (see Dalton letter in BEVN 3/2).

Dates

  • Creation: 1940-10 - 1945-05

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Language of Materials

English

Finding aid date

2013-09-10 11:24:51+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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