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Copy of a letter from WSC to Prime Minister (Clement Attlee) about the United States of Europe, 27 Nov 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/5/1-2

Scope and Contents

Relating to members of the "small Handling-Group" [for the United States of Europe, USE] including those who had declined to join; asking Attlee to confirm that there would be no general direction which would prevent members of the Parliamentary Party [of the Labour Party] from joining the USE; and offering to visit Attlee [to discuss the USE].

Dates

  • Creation: 27 Nov 1946

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.

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Extent

1 item(s)

External Documents

Custodial History

This item is stamped with a “W.S.C.” stamp, so was part of the Churchill papers which were stamped by the Public Record Office in 1961-1964. On cataloguing this item was attached to a piece of paper annotated "2/18" [from CHUR 2/18].

Related Materials

Related to the Churchill Papers [from CHUR 2/18].

Bibliography

A shortened version of the letter is published in 'Winston S. Churchill' volume VIII 'Never Despair' by Martin Gilbert, p.287 and the full letter is published in 'The Churchill Documents' volume 22 'Leader of the Opposition August 1945 to October 1951' by Martin Gilbert and Larry P Arnn, p.556.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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