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Found in 1120 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 25 May 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/26/111-113
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Memorandum by Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] giving reasons against WSC's possible meeting with Grand- Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Navy]; also includes Grey's draft telegram to Sir [William] Edward Goschen [British Ambassador to Germany] declining the meeting. [Typescript draft by WSC].

Dates: 25 May 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Aug 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/27A/20
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Admiralty note on German Submarine Organisation. [Typescript].

Dates: Aug 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Mar 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/2
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Despatch from the British Ambassador to Germany, reporting proceedings in the Reichstag with regard to the acceleration of the German Navy Bill Programme. [Typescript].

Dates: 07 Mar 1898
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Oct 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/3-5
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Speech of the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, at the launch of a battleship [unnamed], asking the German people to support the strengthening of the fleet. [Typescript].

Dates: 18 Oct 1899
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Dec 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/6-7
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Report on a speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] in a Reichstag debate on the German Naval Estimates. [Typescript copy].

Dates: Dec 1899
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Jan 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/8-9
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Text of Major-General Keim's address to the German Navy League, "Our Fleet and Its Future", with text of supporting telegram from the Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II. [Typed copy].

Dates: Jan 1905
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/10-11
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Text of Kaiser Wilhelm II's speech at the opening of the Reichstag, on the German Navy Law. [Typescript].

Dates: 28 Nov 1905
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Feb 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/12-13
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Reported text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] at the sitting of the Budget Commission on the alteration of the German Navy Law and increased votes on naval expenditure. [Typescript].

Dates: Feb 1906
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/14-15
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Reported text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] in the Reichstag on the new German Fleet Bill. [Typescript].

Dates: 28 Nov 1907
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Apr 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/16-17
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Report by [Captain Herbert Heath], the British Naval Attache (Berlin [Germany]) on remarks made to him by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on the German Navy. [Typescript].

Dates: 13 Apr 1909
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Oct 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/18-21
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Report by Captain Herbert Heath, British Naval Attache (Berlin [Germany]) on his conversations with the Adjutant to Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on the German battleships of the 1909 programme. Includes copy of a letter from the Adjutant to Heath. [Typescript].

Dates: 29 Oct 1909
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jul 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/23
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Report of the British Ambassador to Germany [Sir William Goschen], on a speech by Admiral von Keoster defending the German Navy League's demands for more large cruisers in the light of the despatch of a ship to Agadir [Morocco]. [Typescript].

Dates: 12 Jul 1911
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Feb 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/25-26
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Text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] to the Budget Committee of the Reichstag on German naval construction and Germany's attitude to the British Navy. [Typescript].

Dates: 06 Feb 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Apr 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/27
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Extract from a letter from [? Captain Hugh Watson], British Naval Attache [Berlin, Germany] reporting that a German naval writer who had described WSC's speech of 18 Mar 1912 [on Naval Estimates] as a fair one, had been ordered by the Reichs-Marine-Amt to take the line that the speech was an outrage to Germany. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 9/42 for WSC's speech].

Dates: 29 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Feb 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/28-30
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Text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] before the Budget Committee of the Reichstag on German warship construction as compared to the British construction programme. [Typescript].

Dates: 10 Feb 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Feb 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/31-32
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Text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] during a debate in the Reichstag on German Naval Estimates, on the need for increasing the number of ships for overseas service. [Typescript].

Dates: 20 Feb 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Feb 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/33
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Reported text of a speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] during a debate in the Reichstag on German Naval Estimates, on the need for more ships in foreign waters. [Typescript].

Dates: 19 Feb 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Feb 1912 - 12 Feb 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/34-52
Scope and Contents Diary of a visit by 1st Lord Haldane [Secretary of State for War] to Berlin [Germany], 8-9 Feb 1912. Includes accounts of Haldane's conversations with: the Chancellor of Germany [Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg], on the balance of power in Europe, the increase in the British and German fleets and territorial questions in Africa; the Emperor [Kaiser Wilhelm II] and Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on German naval increases; and with J Cambon [? French Ambassador...
Dates: 08 Feb 1912 - 12 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Jan 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/53
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Report by the Admiralty Intelligence Department on the German Fleet Laws of 1898, 1900, 1906, and 1908. [Printed].

Dates: Jan 1911
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Dec 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/261/68
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Letter from Anna von Ribbentrop, Berlin-Dahlem to WSC, thanks for help in obtaining permission to grass the plot in front of the German Embassy in Carlton House Terrace.

Dates: 14 Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jan 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/12
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Cutting from The Morning Post - Germany, France and Italy - reactions of "Morning Post Disclosures" [on the inadequacy of Britain's defences].

Dates: 17 Jan 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Feb 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/27
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Cutting from The Times - A Rearmed Germany - Dutch Fears.

Dates: 07 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Feb 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/32
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Cutting from The Times - article A Rearmed Germany - Defences of Holland.

Dates: 08 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Jul 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/266A/84
Scope and Contents Letter from Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain (the Goring Hotel, [Ebury Street, London]) to WSC, stating that he was going to delay putting forward a motion [? for a Secret Session of the House of Commons on the state of the nation] until he had seen [Henry] David Margesson [Government Chief Whip], as the Government might propose a measure on the subject which they ought to accept. Chamberlain adds that this would not exclude the possibility of a motion to which such a proposal might be the...
Dates: 04 Jul 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Mar 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/274/1-2
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Copy of a letter from WSC to [Pierre] Flandin [Minister of State, France] marked "confidential" asking for French information about the present strength of the German Air Force, predicting 2,000 aircraft by the end of 1936, and asking for information about French expenditure on aviation services for use in debates in Parliament.Carbon typescript. Unsigned.

Dates: 07 Mar 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open