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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941
Telegram from [Sir Ronald] Campbell [British Minister to Yugoslavia] (Belgrade) passing on a message from [?Sir Thomas] Preston to WSC on General [Dusan] Simovic's [Prime Minister of Yugoslavia] reluctance to strike Italy, but promise to attack Albania.
(Untitled), 24 Oct 1941
Telegram from WSC to Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] advising that he will support Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder [Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Middle East] and Auchinleck should commence attack; proceed to Tripoli [Libya] if possible; Soviets are holding Moscow [Soviet Union] and "winter is near. This is the moment for us to strike hard"; includes envelope.
(Untitled), 04 Jul 1942
(Untitled), 27 Dec 1942
Telegram from WSC to General Harold Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Tunis] (Commander in Chief Middle East) marked "personal and most secret" commenting on "Boniface" information [Enigma decrypts, ULTRA] showing the enemy in great anxiety and disarray at Buerat [Libya] and hoping that Alexander will be able to bring forward his strike.
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence E - G., 04 Jun 1946 - 17 Nov 1951
Literary: correspondence on the foreign rights (through Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]) in WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") and other works, A-P., Sep 1947 - Jan 1954
Literary: correspondence on the United States publication of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") in book form, mainly with representatives of Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston [United States], particularly President Henry Laughlin and others including Paul Brooks., Nov 1946 - May 1954
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