Germany
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Public and Political: General: Defence: Correspondence etc., 09 Feb 1920 - 28 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/267
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Correspondents include: Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt [Military Attache, Paris, France] on WSC's visit to see French military manoeuvres at Aix-en-Provence and the Maginot Line (2); "George L" [1st Lord Lloyd of Dolobran]; Alan Herbert, introducing Major-General Sir Percy Hobart [Inspector, Royal Tank Corps, and Commander, Tank Brigade] (2); Desmond Morton on subjects including meeting the representative of the Spanish Nationalists, the Marques del Moral, Communist atrocities in Spain, the...
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09 Feb 1920 - 28 Dec 1936
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Public and Political: General: Defence: Inventions and suggestions., Nov 1935 - 31 Jul 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/278
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Correspondents on defence inventions and suggestions from the general public include: Richard Powell [Assistant Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty] (3); Desmond Morton [Director, Industrial Intelligence Centre]; Sir Christopher Bullock [Permanent Secretary], Air Ministry; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Colonel George Turner [former Superintendent, Design Department, Royal Arsenal]; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Thoroton on the advantages of Admiralty control of the...
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Nov 1935 - 31 Jul 1936
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Public and Political: General: Defence: Memoranda etc., 14 Feb 1936 - 26 Oct 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/268
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Includes: memorandum by Desmond Morton on subjects including German propaganda on French military aviation and the Soviet army, and notes [added to file in January 1996] on a speech by the Minister for Co-ordination of Defence [Sir Thomas Inskip, later 1st Lord Caldecote], rebutting Inskip's claims for military production; memorandum by Sir Philip Gibbs on the inefficient state of the RAF, and its need for expansion; press cuttings from the Figaro, with an article on the Anglo-French crisis...
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14 Feb 1936 - 26 Oct 1936
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Public and Political: General: Defence of Freedom and Peace., 04 Jan 1937 - 08 Jan 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/311A-B
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Correspondence on the Focus in Defence of Freedom and Peace, mainly between WSC and A H Richards [Secretary of the Focus] on subjects including: extending the Focus to the United States, France and Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; suggested visits by WSC to the United States and Yugoslavia; meetings of the focus group, and mass meetings in Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow [Scotland]; appeals and recruiting...
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04 Jan 1937 - 08 Jan 1938
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Public and Political: General: Foreign policy: Germany: Memoranda., 01 Jan 1939 - 27 May 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/373
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Memoranda and correspondence on foreign policy, mainly towards Germany, including: Duncan Sandys, Honorary Secretary, Policy Study Group, on the formation and meetings of the Group (3); memorandum by Mark Patrick [former Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on foreign affairs, including the Munich Crisis, Government inertia on rearmament following Munich, shifts in the balance of Europe, the weakening of the League of Nations, the dangers of a 4-Power system, advantages for...
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01 Jan 1939 - 27 May 1939
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Public and Political: General: Germany and the European Situation: Memoranda., 19 Aug 1937 - 23 Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/340A-B
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Notes and memoranda on Germany, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic and Slovakia] and Europe, including: memoranda by Sir Henry Strakosch on the German economic threat to Eastern and South Eastern Europe; memorandum by [Henry] Wickham Steed on the expansion of German influence in Central and South Eastern Europe and the effects of British and French foreign policy; copy of a report by Guy, Comte de Baillet-Latour, head of the Banque Lambert, on Czechoslovakia; note of a meeting between WSC,...
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19 Aug 1937 - 23 Nov 1938
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Economic intelligence - Ernest Meyer and Bernhard Reichenbach., 05 May 1936 - 07 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/276
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Includes correspondence from Ernest Meyer, Doctor of Economic Science (9), and Bernhard Reichenbach (3), on supporting WSC's figures for German rearmament, particularly against criticism by Professor William Bone and Sir Arnold Wilson [Chairman, Home Office Committee on Structural Precautions against Air Attack] and on fees for their work.Also includes: Meyer's and Reichenbach's summaries and refutations of Bone's argument on German rearmament spending, on subjects including German public...
Dates:
05 May 1936 - 07 Dec 1936
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Economic intelligence - Sir Henry Strakosch., 27 Mar 1936 - 30 Nov 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/277
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Correspondence between Sir Henry Strakosch [Member of the League of Nations Financial Committee] and WSC on subjects including: Strakosch's 1935 estimate of German armaments spending; explaining his figures to 1st Lord Rennell [earlier Sir James Rennell Rodd]; a misleading article by Sir Arnold Wilson [Chairman, Home Office Committee on Structural Precautions Against Air Attack] criticizing WSC's information; criticism from Francis Hirst [a Governor of the London School of Economics] on...
Dates:
27 Mar 1936 - 30 Nov 1936
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Foreign Office memoranda etc., [Oct] 1930 - 24 Jul 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/273
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Includes: correspondence from Ralph Wigram [Counsellor, Foreign Office], enclosing some of the memoranda listed below, and also on subjects including Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Ambassador to Britain (4); a memorandum by Wigram on Hitler's justification for German rearmament, and quotes used in his speeches (4); Foreign Office memorandum on "The Character, Principles and Aims of the National Socialist Movement", summarizing the commentary by Alfred Rosenberg, official Nazi Party...
Dates:
[Oct] 1930 - 24 Jul 1936
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Military and Economic Intelligence., 22 Feb 1939 - 15 Jun 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/374
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Correspondents on Germany include: Sir Henry Strakosch on Germany's spending on armaments, 1938 - 9, comparative British spending, petrol and oil consumption by German aircraft, the German oil supply and the case for destroying the Romanian oil wells on the outbreak of war (4); Anthony de Rothschild; "Edward" [Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin]; Sir Keith Price [former Council Member, Ministry of Munitions] on the capacity of explosive production during the...
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22 Feb 1939 - 15 Jun 1939
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Military Intelligence., 10 Jan 1937 - 02 Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/341
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Correspondents on military intelligence include: Ian Colvin on the impending German occupation of Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic and Slovakia]; John Morgan on German rearmament and his projected book on the subject; Desmond Morton [Director, Industrial Intelligence Centre] on French estimates of German air strength (2); Edouard Daladier [French Prime Minister] on his agreement with WSC about German military strength.Other subjects include: a visit by William Deakin to Prague; Czech...
Dates:
10 Jan 1937 - 02 Sep 1938
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Political intelligence., 24 Jan 1936 - 24 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/275
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Correspondents include: Horace Seymour [Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on German influence in the Netherlands (2); Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, on subjects including Hitler's views on the Locarno Treaty, the appointment of Sir Thomas Inskip [later 1st Lord Caldecote, as Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence], notes by Sir Arthur McWatters on the report by Sir Otto Niemeyer on [the Financial Mission to India, see also CHAR 2/263], the German Peace Plan and information from...
Dates:
24 Jan 1936 - 24 Dec 1936
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Political Intelligence and Rearmament., 08 Jan 1937 - 09 Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/307
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Correspondents on Germany include: Desmond Morton [Director of the Industrial Intelligence Centre] on subjects including the "Black Front" against Hitler, Czechoslovakia's internal policy on Nazism and intelligence received by WSC (6); Bernhard Reichenbach; Harcourt Johnstone; Prince Hubertus Loewenstein; Pierre Cot, French Minister for Air; [?] Sir Frederick Butler [Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; Heinrich Bruning [former Chancellor of Germany] on articles by WSC on...
Dates:
08 Jan 1937 - 09 Dec 1937
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Rearmament intelligence., 07 Mar 1936 - 16 Nov 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/274
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Correspondents include: Brigadier-General John Morgan; 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on claims by Air Chief Marshal Hermann Goering for German air strength and the attitude of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Poland and Italy to war, and on French air strength; Eleanor Rathbone on pro-German sympathy among her constituents, and WSC's attitude to France's insistence on continuing sanctions...
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07 Mar 1936 - 16 Nov 1936
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Public and Political: General: Minister for Co-ordination of Defence: Correspondence with., 14 May 1936 - 23 Nov 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/269
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Correspondence between Sir Thomas Inskip [later 1st Lord Caldecote], Minister for Co-ordination of Defence and WSC on subjects including: the Fleet Air Arm; progress in the 1922 Committee on realizing the inadequacy of air defences and general delays in the committee; the possibility of an airborne invasion; the usefulness of WSC's advice; the role of a Minister of Supply; the visit and report of Allen Clark, Joint Managing Director of Plessey Company Limited, to German munitions works;...
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14 May 1936 - 23 Nov 1936
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Public and Political: General: Pamphlets., Feb 1936 - Jul 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/293
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Pamphlets, mainly on Germany, including: Friends of Europe monthly survey of German publications, and pamphlet on "The Racial Conception of the World", from Hitler's "Mein Kampf"; report from the Anglo-German Information Service on hygiene and the community in Germany; extract from the Contemporary Review with an article on the financial crisis in Germany by Bernhard Reichenbach ("Herman Hermes"); Trustees for Freedom (also Hands off Britain) pamphlets, including "Hitler's Claim for...
Dates:
Feb 1936 - Jul 1936
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, A-B, many on WSC's health, his travels abroad, and offering support for his leadership. [please note that most of the file dates from 1943]., Mar 1941 - Aug 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/463
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Correspondents include: Major-General [2nd] Lord Rennell [earlier Francis Rodd] (15 Army Group) and General [Sir Harold] Alexander [later 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis] forwarding the first Union Jack to fly on the mainland of liberated Europe; Ava, Lady Anderson [earlier Ava Wigram, later Ava, Lady Waverley] commenting on and sending on notes on Ralph Wigram and the German breaking of the Treaty of Locarno including extracts from letters by [Pierre] Flandin [former French Foreign Minister];...
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Mar 1941 - Aug 1947
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, C-D, many congratulating WSC on becoming Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party and praising his leadership., Jan 1940 - Dec 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/393
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Correspondents include: Monsieur Campinchi, French Minister of Marine; [1st] Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief] of the Daily Telegraph sending on a United States article published in the Telegraph; Robert Cary; [1st] Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil] (?2) including (1) on the League [of Nations]; Lord Hugh Cecil [later 1st Lord Quickswood]; Neville Chamberlain (5) on subjects including his health, government policy, and his resignation; Sir Evan...
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Jan 1940 - Dec 1940
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office: Correspondence E - K., 30 Jun 1939 - 21 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/365
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Correspondents include: Maxine Elliott on subjects including the campaign for WSC's inclusion in the War Cabinet and her health (3); Daisy Fellowes on subjects including information about living conditions in Germany and British propaganda (2); Felix Frankfurter; Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle; Major-General Bernard Freyberg, General Officer Commanding, Salisbury Plain Area [Wiltshire] on being fit for military service and taking command as [General Officer Commanding, New Zealand Forces] (3);...
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30 Jun 1939 - 21 Dec 1939
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office: Correspondence R - S., 05 Jul 1939 - 23 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/367
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Correspondents include: Paul Reynaud; Kermit Roosevelt (2); 6th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord Dalmeny]; "Harold R", 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on subjects including putting up a prize for development of anti-mine measures (2); 1st Lord Southborough [earlier Francis Hopwood], congratulating WSC on his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty; [Henry] James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn [later 11th Lord Dundee]; [James] Vincent Sheean on subjects including WSC's appointment,...
Dates:
05 Jul 1939 - 23 Dec 1939
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, R-S, many congratulating WSC on becoming Prime Minister and praising his leadership and speeches, Apr 1908 - Dec 1940. [Please note that almost the whole file dates from 1940].
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/398
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Correspondents include: Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay on his knighthood; Sir Eugene Ramsden on Conservative support for WSC; Whitelaw Reid [London correspondent] of the New York Herald Tribune [United States]; [Sir] Robert Renwick sending on memoranda on French banks (by "Birch"), demolition in London, and Albania (by Renwick) (4); [David] Waley [Principal Assistant Secretary] (Treasury) and Philip Allen (Ministry of Home Security) on Renwick's memoranda; Paul Reynaud, French Minister of...
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Apr 1908 - Dec 1940. [Please note that almost the whole file dates from 1940].
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office: Correspondence T - Y., 11 Apr 1939 - 20 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/368
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Correspondents include: Colin Thornton-Kemsley, apologizing for his former opposition to WSC; representatives of Barclays Bank Limited, Thornton Heath [Surrey] on WSC standing as guarantor for Walter Thompson [WSC's former detective] (4); Benjamin Tillett, congratulating WSC on his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty, and offering his services; Josiah Wedgwood on subjects including the policy of building aircraft carriers and battleships after [the sinking of the Royal Oak], WSC's...
Dates:
11 Apr 1939 - 20 Dec 1939
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Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party answers to election questionnaires., 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/124
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Contains questions and answers prepared by Conservative and Unionist Central Office on a variety of election issues including: agricultural matters; animal welfare; various aspects of foreign affairs including China, Germany, Japan, Persia [Iran], South Africa, and Mexico; civil servants; education; housing matters; the health service; women; transport particularly by road; pensions; economic affairs including taxation; the constitutional position of Scotland and Wales.
Dates:
1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-B., Nov 1945 - Dec 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/52A-B
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Correspondents include: Prime Minister Clement Attlee (3); Paul Beards [Assistant Private Secretary to Attlee]; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Chatfield (2), General Admiral Conrad Albrecht (2), and Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to Attlee] (3) on pensions for German war veterans; James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip] (4); 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Julian Amery on completing J L Garvin's life of Joseph Chamberlain; Bhimrao Ambedkar (2) (see CHUR 2/52A/41);...
Dates:
Nov 1945 - Dec 1947
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-B., May 1948 - Feb 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/80
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Correspondents include: Abdullah [ibn Hussein], King of Jordan [earlier Transjordan], (2) and Edward Tomkins (Foreign Office) on a visit to the United Kingdom by Abdullah; Dean Acheson [Secretary of State, United States] on WSC's visit to the United States; Sir Richard Acland and Donald Bruce [later Lord Bruce of Donnington, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister of Health] forewarning WSC of criticism in the House of Commons; Konrad Adenauer [Federal Chancellor of Germany] on WSC's...
Dates:
May 1948 - Feb 1950
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