"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material, 1937 - 1952
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to events in France, including: note by Major-General Harold Redman, former member of the War Cabinet Secretariat, on the Paris Secretariat in 1939-40; letters from Armando da Gama Ochoa, from the Portuguese Legation in Paris, to Arnold Inman, on the situation in Paris and reasons for the fall of France (1937-41); press cartoons; information from Maurice Dejean on German sympathisers in the cabinet of Paul Reynaud [Prime Minister of France]; press cuttings with letters from Field Marshal 1st Lord Ironside and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall on the fall of France; supplement to the London Gazette with despatches from 6th Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, 1939-40.
Dates
- Creation: 1937 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Extent
1 file(s)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
SPRS 2/18 Box 2
Finding aid date
2007-01-24 14:18:18.383000+00:00
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
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