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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material, 1937 - 1952

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 8/18

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

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

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

Contact:
Churchill Archives Centre
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