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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 991 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/4
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Letter from WSC to [Austen Chamberlain], on draft letter from WSC and Chamberlain to the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald], on the need for a Committee to discuss the problem of defence against night bombers [carbon].

Dates: 08 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/5
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Letter from Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain (58 Rutland Gate [London]) to WSC, informing him that he had signed and sent a letter [jointly from himself and WSC, on the need for an enquiry on air defence] to the Prime Minister [James Ramsay MacDonald], with a covering note.Chamberlain also says that the second volume of WSC's biography of the 1st Duke of Marlborough had formed his Christmas reading, and had fascinated him: "What a man!".

Dates: 09 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/6
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Letter from F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), Christ Church, Oxford, to WSC, on letter to the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald] on air defence.

Dates: 13 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/7
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Letter from F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), Christ Church, Oxford, to WSC, on letter to the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald] on air defence. Commenting that it was "hopeless the way Ramsay chops and changes", also that he had learned that Air Ministry was determined to "do everything to inhibit action of the sort we want".

Dates: 18 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/8
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Letter from WSC to F A Lindemann, (later Lord Cherwell), on letter from the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald] on air defence. Describing Macdonald as a "hopeless twister" and stating that the only solution was a debate in the House of Commons [carbon].

Dates: 21 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/10-12
Scope and Contents Letter from F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell], (Christ Church, Oxford) to WSC, sending further letters from the Prime Minister [James Ramsay MacDonald] and Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on air defence. Particularly on the composition and terms of reference of the Air Defence Research Committee, commenting that Henry Tizard was a good man, but that both he and Harry Wimperis received salaries from the Air Ministry, and that neither of the other two members "have ever had anything to...
Dates: 22 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Feb 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/16
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Letter from Desmond Morton, (21 Queen Anne's gate, London SW1) to WSC, on letter from Air Commodore Peregrine Fellowes. Commenting that Fellowes had been one of the Air Ministry's experts on dirigibles, and that he might have a considerable personal bias towards "matters of air policy with which the Air Ministry would not be wholly in agreement".

Dates: 27 Feb 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Feb 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/17
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Letter from Air Commodore Peregrine Fellowes (Chester Street, London SW1) to WSC, asking for meeting to discuss air policy.

Dates: 10 Feb 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 05 Jun 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/112-113
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Letter from Charles Watney, Watney & Powell, Courtfield Road, London SW7 to WSC, enclosing press cutting containing report of meeting of Wednesbury Town Council, demanding that the Government make provision for the protection of the civilians in the event of air attack.

Dates: 05 Jun 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Jun 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/114
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Parliamentary question from WSC to the Prime Minister, Ramsay Macdonald, asking if the Air Defence Research Committee had been appointed, and how many meetings it had held [carbon].

Dates: 06 Jun 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Jul 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/5
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Letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on his willingness to serve on the Air Defence Research Committee. Stating that he must remain free to debate all the general issues of air strength, policy and programmes [typescript copy].

Dates: 06 Jul 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jul 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/9-11
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Letter from Desmond Morton, Early Lands, Crookham Hill, Kent, to WSC, commenting on article in "L'Illustration" on air strength, particularly the confusion due to the lack of a universally accepted yard stick by which air strengths could be measured, and the difficulty of measuring German first line air strength.

Dates: 08 Jul 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Aug 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/19-22
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Letter from Major Desmond Morton, (Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1) to WSC, commenting on his draft memorandum to Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [later Lord Swinton], Secretary of State for Air [there is a copy of the memorandum in CHAR 25/4].

Dates: 23 Aug 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Aug 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/23-24
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood], Foreign Office, thanks for letter of 27 Aug on Imperial Defences, [CHAR 2/236]. Commenting on fleet dispositions in the Mediterranean, and stating that it would be quite wrong for isolated capital ships to be near Italian waters "I do hope the Admiralty will not despise the Italians and believe they will never dare to put to and face us. Mussolini's Italy may be quite different to that of the Great War". Also commenting on possible...
Dates: 29 Aug 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Sep 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/33
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Letter from Lord Winterton (Shillinglee Park, Chiddingfold) to WSC, reporting conversations with Sir Robert Horne and Leo Amery on defence. Stating that Amery had most disquieting news that the "havering and incapacity" at the Air Ministry was just as bad as under the former Minister [Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister had replaced Lord Londonderry in June]. Suggesting a deputation to the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] asking him to investigate the rumours about the state of the Ministry.

Dates: 26 Sep 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Sep 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/34-36
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Letter from WSC to Lord Winterton (Shillinglee Park, Chiddingfold), stating that he had been invited to serve on the Air Defence Research Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, but that he remained free to criticise air policy and air strength. Agreeing that the condition of the Air Ministry was unsatisfactory, and Britain was falling further and further behind Germany. Suggesting a meeting to discuss a deputation to the Prime Minister.

Dates: 26 Sep 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Sep 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/37-39
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Letter from Desmond Morton, (Earlylands, Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent) to WSC, on relative air strength of Britain and Germany, stating that the number of military aircraft in the possession of the German Air Ministry and available for home defence in Britain were about the same, but that all of the German aircraft were new.

Dates: 30 Sep 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/87-92
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Letter from Samuel Haines, Haines & Co., Englewood, New Jersey, USA to WSC, on design of improved searchlights to assist air defence.

Dates: 18 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/97-99
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Letter from Lord Rothermere, Stratton House, Piccadilly, London to WSC, on the impossibility of anti-aircraft defence of warships, concluding that warships could carry no more that one hour's ammunition, and that "warships are doomed except for mid-ocean purposes", enclosing cutting from the "Daily Telegraph" on high altitude bombing.

Dates: 28 Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Nov 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/100
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Pamphlet "Volkerbund" the Journal of the German Association for League of Nations Questions No.144 on French Military Aviation.

Dates: 29 Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Dec 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/102-105
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Letter from Major-General Harry Pritchard, Ospringe, Faversham, Kent, to WSC, on the question of aerial defence.

Dates: 02 Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Dec 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/107-109
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Letter from Desmond Morton to WSC, on defence of warships against air attack.

Dates: 04 Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Dec 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/116-128
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Notes by WSC on British and German air strength [2 carbon copies].

Dates: 09 Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Dec 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/130-131
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Letter from Vice-Admiral Reginald Henderson, Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy, to WSC, on defence of warships against air attack.

Dates: 16 Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Oct 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/259/71-75
Scope and Contents Letter from Desmond Morton, Crockham Hill, Kent to WSC, stating that the Civil Service proposed to give him a permanent post after 17 years "temporary Service", so that he could eventually draw a pension, and that he had named WSC as a referee. Also commenting on the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, reporting that the opinion of the Carlton Club was that SB was not going until "Death or the Coronation". Also that there was "trouble brewing aboun Anthony Eden (later Lord Avon), Foreign...
Dates: 16 Oct 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open