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Articles and film and book reviews by GK, also including the text of an article on television and politics, which he had sent to [James] Harold Wilson, Prime Minister, for comment.

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The collection includes scrapbooks containing photographs and press cuttings; family and professional correspondence; speeches and articles; official documents relating to Foreign Office and Suez Canal Company business; and draft notes for Cadogan's autobiography. A series of frank personal diaries with almost daily entries cover Cadogan's career and private life from his appointment as Minister to China in 1933 to his retirement.

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The papers cover Jacob's adult life from his early army career, his work as Assistant Military Secretary to the War Cabinet and as Director General of the BBC, to his retirement where he remained active in many important public services. Also included are some Boer War papers which were kept by Jacob's father-in-law.

Scope and Contents Letters chiefly relating to Geikie-Cobb's commissioning of BBC broadcast talks during the Second World War (mainly under his pseudonym 'Anthony Weymouth'), which he apparently kept as souvenirs. Correspondents include: Edith Watson, Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, acknowledging a letter from Geikie-Cobb advising that it should be made clear to the German Government that German cities would be bombed in retaliation for the bombing of British cities; Patricia Hamilton,...

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Comprising diaries and scrapbooks; books, articles and lectures; correspondence files; memorabilia; and audio-visual material.

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Fortieth anniversary pamphlet on the history of the BBC radio programme 'The Week in Westminster', with photograph of Mary Agnes Hamilton, who presented the first talk in 1929.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents Transcripts of broadcasts and interviews with JEP, mainly on his general career, with other subjects including 'The Chamberlain Trilogy' on Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Chamberlain and Austen Chamberlain, a worldwide political shift to the right, immigration and politics in the 1970's (with Michael Foot. Also includes: text of an interview with members of the People's Democracy, including [Josephine] Bernadette Devlin [later Bernadette McAliskey]; draft report of the European...

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Typescript. Germans using information in BBC Empire broadcasts and re-interpreting to Britain's detriment in their overseas broadcasts.

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Telegram from WSC to Harry Hopkins [Special adviser and assistant to the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt] regarding censorship of broadcasts on Guadeloupe [West Indies] radio: "It seems to me we ought to have control.".

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Typed memorandum from WSC with specimens of "cheerful chats" about Naval matters for BBC broadcasting; to give details of the day's casualties and the fate of ships Germaine, Ragni, HC Flood, Ursus, Atheltemplar and Inverlaine.

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Printed note from WSC, with enclosures on Admiralty advice to the BBC on broadcasting of shipping losses.

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Letter from WSC to Jacques Duchesne [Michel Saint- Denis, head of French section, BBC] thanking him for his translation of WSC's speech to the Allied Representatives on 12 June ["Our stolid, stubborn strength"].

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Letter from James Stuart [Government Chief Whip] to WSC, passing on congratulations from MPs and ministers on his recent broadcast [10 May] and parliamentary opposition to the Beveridge plan [? of social insurance].

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Letter by Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] to WSC complaining about a broadcast made by Lord Wedgwood to the United States on anti-Semitism in Britain and Palestine, which was missed by the censor; annotated by WSC "make sure he [the censor] is not employed again"; with cutting from the Daily Mail, 27 May.

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Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC with invitation from University of Rochester, United States, to receive Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws in absentia, and make a broadcast speech to United States on commencement day. [see CHAR 20/38/123 for reply.].

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Telegram from WSC to Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] accepting invitation of Honorary Degree from University of Rochester [United States]; and confirming that he will make speech to University on June 16. [see CHAR 20/38/76 .].

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Telegram from Louis Alber [President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, confirming booking of a 15 minute broadcast from Boston [United States] on 10 March, at a fee of 1,000 dollars.

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Letter from Louis Alber, President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on an itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States, confirming an offer from Columbia Broadcasting Company, of 1,000 dollars for a talk, stating that this was a great disappointment, as he had been hoping to secure a deal for three broadcasts at a fee of 7,000 dollars.

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Telegram from Louis Alber [President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on an offer from [the Columbia Broadcast Company], of 1,000 dollars for a broadcast, asking if he wished to accept, annotated with WSC's reply asking Alber to try to secure a three broadcast deal, but otherwise to accept.

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Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] on his lecture tour of the United States, instructing Alber to accept an offer of a broadcast [with the Columbia Broadcasting Company for 1,000 dollars]. [Copy].

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Letter from Cesar Saerchinger, Director, European Service, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] to Violet Pearman [Private Secretary to WSC], on the possibility of WSC making a radio broadcast on India during his lecture tour of the United States.

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Letter from [Violet Pearman, Private Secretary to WSC] to Cesar Saerchinger, [Director, European Service], Columbia Broadcasting System, [CBS] declining his invitation for WSC to address the United States by transatlantic radio. [Carbon].

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Letter from Cesar Saerchinger, Director, European Service, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] to WSC, inviting him to address the United States by transatlantic radio.

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Letter from Herbert Glover, Director of Broadcasting, Columbia Broadcasting System Incorporated [CBS], (New York [United States]), to Gerald Cohen, asking if WSC would be willing to record a New Year message.