Press
Found in 457 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 20 Mar 1941
(Untitled), 20 Mar 1941 - 21 Mar 1941
Telegram from Secretary of States for the Colonies [1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness] to the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] passing on a message from WSC on matters including Anglo-American relations and Windsor's comments in Liberty magazine not being HM Government policy. Copy with complements slip.
(Untitled), 19 Mar 1941 - 22 Mar 1941
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.
(Untitled), 27 Mar 1941 - 28 Mar 1941
(Untitled), 31 Mar 1941
Minute from "M" [1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness, Secretary of State for the Colonies] to WSC on approaching [Colin] Davidson [Clerk to the House of Lords] to become the Duke of Windsor's [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] Press representative and giving details of Sir Edward Peacock, the Duke's financial adviser. Typescript, annotated by WSC.
(Untitled), 22 Apr 1941
Letter from [Christopher] Eastwood [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies] (Colonial Office) to [John] Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] enclosing newspaper cuttings on the Duke of Windsor's [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] visit to Miami [United States]. Signed typescript preceded by file note and followed by the cuttings.
(Untitled), 29 May 1941 - 30 May 1941
(Untitled), 06 Jun 1941 - 11 Jun 1941
(Untitled), 11 Jun 1941
Minute from WSC to Secretary of State for the Colonies [1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness] on a possible American publicist for the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas], suggesting they need "someone of sufficient character and standing" to dissuade the Duke from giving "unhelpful opinions". Carbon copy.
(Untitled), 21 Jul 1941
Telegram from Secretary of State for the Colonies [1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness] to Governor, Bahamas, [the Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII] sending on a message from [Sir Walter] Monckton [Director-General of Ministry of Information] on finding the Duke a Press Attache, suggesting trying Rene McColl "as an experiment", and arrangements for the Duke's proposed visit to the United States and Canada. Copy.
(Untitled), 25 Jul 1941 - 26 Jul 1941
Telegram from the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII], Governor [and Commander in Chief] of the Bahamas, to Secretary of State for the Colonies [1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness], passing on a message to [Sir Walter] Monckton [Director-General of Ministry of Information] on matters including his preference for [Rene] McColl [as his Press Attache]. Despatched on 25 July and received 26 July. Carbon copy. [sent with CHAR 20/31B/130].
(Untitled), 29 Jul 1941 - 31 Jul 1941
(Untitled), 09 Sep 1941 - 10 Sep 1941
Telegram from Sir [Ronald] Campbell [British Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington, United States] to [the Governor and Commander in Chief of] the Bahamas [the Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII] suggesting policy towards the press for the Duke's visit to the United States. Despatched on 10 September. Copy sent on by the Foreign Office.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1941 - 20 Sep 1941
(Untitled), 21 Oct 1941 - 05 Nov 1941
(Untitled), 27 Nov 1941 - 28 Nov 1941
(Untitled), 12 Mar 1941
Letter from WSC to Sir Walter Citrine [General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress and President of the International Federation of Trade Unions]: "We do not want to subject of land mines with parachute attachments discussed in the public press", if Citrine refers to them the Censor will be unable to maintain control.
(Untitled), 31 Mar 1941
(Untitled), 18 Jun 1941
Letter from J Alfred Spender [author; former Editor of the Westminster Gazette] to WSC expressing concern over relations between the younger journalists in the National Press and the Government, quarrelling with the Ministry of Information. [Manuscript and typescript copy].
(Untitled), 19 Jun 1941 - 23 Jun 1941
Notes from George Steward [Government Chief Press Liaison Officer] and [1st Lord Beaverbrook], Minister of State, commenting that suggestions by J Alfred Spender [former Editor of the Westminster Gazette] [on relations between the younger journalists in the National Press and the Government] are out of date.
(Untitled), 29 Jun 1941 - 03 Jul 1941
Letter from WSC to J Alfred Spender thanking him for his letter; with note by John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC].
(Untitled), 22 Jul 1941 - Aug 1941
Correspondence between Leslie Rowan [Private Secretary to WSC], WSC and the Ministry of Information, including Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information], discussing an appropriate response to J Alfred Spender [former Editor, Westminster Gazette] and how to deal with press issues raised by him.
(Untitled), 28 Oct 1941
Note from [Frances] Brown [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC sending on a press cutting of an article by John Walters of the Sunday Pictorial entitled "Sneer Campaign Against Duke [of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas]".
(Untitled), 22 Apr 1910
Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: debate of the Vote on Account; censure of Sir Robert Anderson for his articles in Blackwood's Magazine and the decision that he would not be deprived of his pension; and the uproar which followed a remark made by [James] Campbell.
(Untitled), 01 Dec 1911
Letter from Lord Northcliffe [owner of the Times, earlier Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC, on the question of the suppression of news of naval movements in the newspapers, stating that it should be enforced tactfully but drastically, and that he was all for the most drastic censorship before and during war.