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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/3
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff.Subjects covered by the minutes include: the Japanese threat to the Falkland Islands; discussion of operation "Ironclad" [code name for British occupation of Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; the British naval...
Dates:
01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1942 - 30 Nov 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/9
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, November 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War...
Dates:
01 Nov 1942 - 30 Nov 1942
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/10
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, December 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Director of Movements [War Office, General Noel Holmes]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the minutes include:...
Dates:
01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
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(Untitled), 20 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/20/43-57
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Letter from WSC to President [Franklin Roosevelt] outlining various plans and proposals concerning: attacking the German and Italian armies in Libya; French North Africa; Norway; British contributions to the Soviet war effort; defending Great Britain from a possible German invasion; placing United States forces in Northern Ireland [Ulster]; the command structure in the Middle East and the roles of the Air Force and Navy; the effect of victory in Libya on Italy and Turkey; landing tanks; the...
Dates:
20 Oct 1941
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(Untitled), 08 Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/20/65-67
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Letter from WSC [to King George VI] requesting permission to visit President [Franklin] Roosevelt in Washington [United States], with the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and the Chief of Air Staff [Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal], whilst Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] is in Moscow [Soviet Union] visiting Marshal Stalin; adds in post script that he will delay the journey until Germany and Italy declare their intentions towards the United States....
Dates:
08 Dec 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1941 - 31 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/10
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Colonels Leslie Hollis and Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's...
Dates:
01 Oct 1941 - 31 Oct 1941
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(Untitled), 11 Mar 1941 - 16 Mar 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/11-12
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Note from "J M" [John Martin, Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC attaching a press summary of the article appearing in Liberty magazine dated 11 March: "The Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] talks of War and Peace".
Dates:
11 Mar 1941 - 16 Mar 1941
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Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: correspondence with or about HRH the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas].
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(Untitled), 16 Mar 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/13
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Newspaper cutting from the Sunday Dispatch reporting the Duke of Windsor's [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] interview in Liberty magazine.
Dates:
16 Mar 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: correspondence with or about HRH the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas].
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(Untitled), 19 Mar 1941 - 22 Mar 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/49-50
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Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] (Washington) to the Foreign Office giving extracts from the Duke of Windsor's [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] interview [with Fulton Ousler] in Liberty magazine. Copy preceded by Foreign Office request.
Dates:
19 Mar 1941 - 22 Mar 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: correspondence with or about HRH the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas].
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(Untitled), 18 Aug 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/44/56-57
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Minute from Rear-Admiral Henry Oliver, Director of the Intelligence Division, Admiralty, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the case of Friedrich von Bulow, representative of the Krupp Works in Britain, who had been arrested on a charge of espionage and had appealed to WSC to be allowed to return to Germany [see CHAR 13/44/2]. Oliver states that Krupps maintained a system of espionage and that von Bulow was implicated in it, or knew about it; also that he had consulted Major Vernon Kell...
Dates:
18 Aug 1914
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(Untitled), 28 Jan 1912 - 01 Feb 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/14/48-52
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on anti-British sentiments in Germany, stating that his source of information was much better than "anything the Foreign Office gets". Fisher presses WSC to adopt the "two keels to one" standard over the German navy, enclosing a letter from Rear-Admiral Sir Sidney Eardley-Wilmot about the "Big Gun" and the need to develop a 16 inch gun following the production of 14 and 15 inch guns in Germany and the...
Dates:
28 Jan 1912 - 01 Feb 1912
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(Untitled), 02 Mar 1912 - 05 Mar 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/14/67-85
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher (Hotel Excelsior, Naples [Italy]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on subjects including: relations with Germany; praising WSC's speech in Glasgow [Scotland] on Naval Defence [to the Clyde Navigation Trustees, 9 February]; criticising the visit by 1st Lord Haldane [Secretary of State for War] to Germany; warship design and construction, particularly of the "Super-Swift" and "Super-Active" classes; the importance of aircraft and submarines;...
Dates:
02 Mar 1912 - 05 Mar 1912
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(Untitled), 14 Feb 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/3-4
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Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, enclosing a translation of the proposed new German Navy Law. [Printed].
Dates:
14 Feb 1912
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(Untitled), 18 Jan 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/21/1-3
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fuel, with a copy of a press cutting on the use of oil motors in German shipyards. [Carbon copy].
Dates:
18 Jan 1913
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(Untitled), 11 Mar 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/35-39
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Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the fact that the Vote on Account approved by the House of Commons will supply the Government for six weeks and is therefore indicative of the Government's uncertain position and the financial powers of the House of Commons; reaction by Austen Chamberlain and F E Smith [later Lord Birkenhead] to the Government's decision; Sir Edward Grey's statement of Foreign Office policy on the Belgian...
Dates:
11 Mar 1910
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From the Fonds:
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(Untitled), 09 Mar 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/6
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Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, on the implications of the new German Naval Law. [Printed].
Dates:
09 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 18 Apr 1912 - 19 Apr 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/7
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Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, circulating a note by the Director of the Intelligence Division, Captain Thomas Jackson, on the final text of the new German Navy Law. [Printed].
Dates:
18 Apr 1912 - 19 Apr 1912
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(Untitled), 22 Jun 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/9
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Cabinet paper by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the naval situation in relation to maintaining superiority over Germany. [Printed].
Dates:
22 Jun 1912
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/14/94-97
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, (Hotel Excelsior, Naples [Italy]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the departure of 15,000 Italian troops to Tripoli [? Libya]: Fisher comments that no Italian newspapers had "given the show away" and wonders if British newspapers would do the same. He asks WSC if he could trust Ralph Blumenfeld, Editor of the Daily Express, H A Gwynne, Editor of the Morning Post, or Leslie Cornford of the Standard, suggesting that if war broke out,...
Dates:
01 Apr 1912
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(Untitled), [Jun] 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/15
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Cabinet Paper by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the new German Navy Law. [Printed].
Dates:
[Jun] 1912
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(Untitled), [Jun] 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/16
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White Paper giving a translation of the German Naval Law Amendment Bill. [Published by HMSO, Cd.6117].
Dates:
[Jun] 1912
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(Untitled), 26 Aug 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/18/9
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Secret memorandum on the general naval situation relating to Britain and Germany, prepared by the Admiralty for the information of Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [White Paper, published August 1914].
Dates:
26 Aug 1912
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(Untitled), 11 Sep 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/15/56-57
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the work of the Commission, particularly the possibility of distilling oil from coal. Encloses a cutting on a 15,000 ton oil-fired vessel being built in Germany. [See CHAR 13/16/97-98 for typescript copy].
Dates:
11 Sep 1912
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(Untitled), 01 Feb 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/18-21
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on anti-British sentiments in Germany, stating that his source of information was much better than "anything the Foreign Office gets". Fisher presses WSC to adopt the "two keels to one" standard over the German navy, enclosing a letter from Rear-Admiral Sir Sidney Eardley-Wilmot about the "Big Gun" and the need to develop a 16 inch gun following the production of 14 and 15 inch guns in Germany and the...
Dates:
01 Feb 1912
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(Untitled), [1913]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/154-155
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Letter from J Norton Griffiths (Train en-route to Baku [Azerbaydzhan]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Anglo-German naval relations.
Dates:
[1913]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open