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Resignation letters: personal, 1938-10 - 1940-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DUFC 2/19

Scope and Contents

Correspondents writing to Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis include: [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain on subjects including his view that David Lloyd George was waiting for the opportunity to emulate Marshal Philippe Petain [Chief of French State], his own failing health and the personal goodwill between him and Cooper (3); 1st Lord Chatfield [1st Sea Lord] on his regret at Cooper’s departure from the Admiralty; Stephen King-Hall; Robert Byron; Josiah Wedgwood; John Astor; 8th Duke of Buccleuch [earlier Lord Dalkeith]; Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy; Sir Lancelot Oliphant; 2nd Lord Lytton; "Buck" [9th Lord de la Warr, earlier Lord Buckhurst]; Geoffrey Winthrop Young; Sir Sidney Herbert on supporting Cooper with his constituency association; Sir Ronald Storrs; Paul Maze; Sir William Jowitt; Sir Philip Vos; Thomas Bouch; Geoffrey Faber; Marjorie Maxse, Chief Organisation Officer, Conservative Central Office; Sir Cyril Deverell; Geoffrey Shakespeare [Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty]; [Thomas] Loel Guinness; Philip Dunn; G C T Giles; Robert Kirkwood; [Edith] Peggy Ashcroft; Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse [Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet] on subjects including improving operational planning; Brendan Bracken; Ronald Tree; Isaac Foot; 11th Lord Carlisle [earlier Lord Morpeth]; Anthony Crossley; Sir Matthew Wilson; Margot, Lady Oxford and Asquith; Claude Lancaster; Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; John Lockhart; Basil Liddell Hart; Ian Horobin; Sir Cuthbert Headlam; James de Rothschild; Arthur Duncan-Jones, Dean of Chichester; 4th Lord Dufferin and Ava; Hubert Duggan.

Dates

  • Creation: 1938-10 - 1940-12

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

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

Extent

1 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

See also DUFC 2/14-15.

Date information

DateText: The majority of folios date from October 1938.

Finding aid date

2012-11-21 10:41:53.927000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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