Speeches
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Public and Political: General: Press cuttings etc., 03 Feb 1938 - 20 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/355
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Press cuttings from British and American newspapers, with reports of statements, speeches and letters by individuals including: Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood], Home Secretary, on the need for ARP training; Sir Thomas Inskip [later 1st Lord Caldecote], Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, on aircraft production, particularly by "shadow" car factories; Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] on progress in rearmament and a call for national unity, including a transcript of his...
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03 Feb 1938 - 20 Dec 1938
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence A., 05 Jan 1946 - 30 Jun 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/145A-B
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Correspondents include: Haile Selassie, Emperor [of Ethiopia] (2); Grant Duff Ainslie on the loss of India; "Brookie" [1st Lord Alanbrooke, earlier Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff] on subjects including the evacuation of British troops from Egypt (6); "Jimmy", 17th Duke of Alba, on subjects including Andres Revesz's biography of 1st Duke of Marlborough, and being prevented from leaving Spain (7); 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on the country's need for WSC's...
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05 Jan 1946 - 30 Jun 1949
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence A., 29 Dec 1945 - 20 Jul 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/166
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Correspondents include: Leo Amery on subjects including offering his services in government, money for colonial development, WSC's speech [28 March 1950, "European Unity"] and the failure of Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary] to respond to it, and Israel's relations with Britain (8); Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] (2); Philip Moore [later 1st Lord Moore of Wolvercote], Assistant Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, on the commemoration of the United...
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29 Dec 1945 - 20 Jul 1953
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence A - B., 29 Dec 1945 - 26 Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/160
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Correspondents include: Christabel, Lady Aberconway, on WSC's cat (2); Max Aitken; Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia; "Alex", 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada] (9); Herbert Bruce [former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Canada] on WSC's loss of the 1945 General Election and WSC's speeches in the United States; Arthur Meighen [former Prime Minister of Canada] on the need to maintain close relations with Britain, the menace of the Soviet Union to world peace and...
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29 Dec 1945 - 26 Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence D - G., 30 Jun 1946 - 06 Jun 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/162
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Correspondents include: Helen, Lady D'Abernon (3); Arthur Christiansen, [Editor], Daily Express (2); Sir Clifford Norton, British Ambassador to Greece, on the funeral of Archbishop Damaskinos, former Regent of Greece; Archbishop Damaskinos on his gratitude to WSC; Charles de Gaulle on WSC's treatment of him in ["The Second World War"]; 18th Lord Derby [earlier Lord Stanley] on racing; "Ettie", Ethel, Lady Desborough (6); Sir Humphrey de Trafford on racing; Andre de Staercke, on the staff of...
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30 Jun 1946 - 06 Jun 1950
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence M - Q., 31 Oct 1945 - 27 Jan 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/153A-B
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Correspondents include: William Mabane [Director, Kemsley Newspapers] asking if WSC could contribute to the Sunday Chronicle on United Europe and fears of a Socialist State; Marjorie Madan on publishing quotations from WSC (4); Stuart Mais on dedicating a book to WSC; 1st Lord Margesson; Louis Marin, member, French National Assembly; Reginald Marnham [WSC's neighbour] (4); Douglas Marshall, MP for Bodmin [Cornwall] conveying greetings from his constituency; John Martin [former Private...
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31 Oct 1945 - 27 Jan 1950
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Q - Roo., 09 Dec 1940 - 18 Mar 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/196
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Quickswood [earlier Lord Hugh Cecil] on subjects including WSC's career, chances of war with the Soviet Union, and WSC's speeches (6); Admiral Arthur Radford; Prince Rainier of Monaco (2); Raja Sir Maharaj Singh; Habib Rahimtoola, Governor of Sind, Pakistan; J Arthur Rank, Chairman, Rank Organisation Limited, on a film about Douglas Bader; Helen Reid [Chairman], New York Herald Tribune, on the Herald Tribune Forum; 1st Lord Reith, former Chairman, Imperial...
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09 Dec 1940 - 18 Mar 1958
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with President Truman., 29 Jan 1946 - 01 May 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/158
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Letters from Harry S Truman, President of the United States, on subjects including his hopes for avoiding a third world war, seeing Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp, later Sarah, Lady Audley] in the Philadelphia Story, his own chances for re-election, the threat of Communism and dealing with the Soviet Union (10).Other correspondents include: CSC; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Joint Director, Conservative Research Department]; Alexander Spearman on...
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29 Jan 1946 - 01 May 1950
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Public and Political: General: Proposed broadcasts abroad following BBC ban., 22 Apr 1932 - 04 Jul 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/590
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Correspondents include: Ira Morrison, Chairman of the International Radio Forum (enclosing information about the purpose of the forum) on arrangements for WSC to speak (2); [Benjamin] Cardozo on a broadcast by WSC; Esmond Rothermere [later 2nd Lord Rothermere] on the BBC's refusal to allow WSC to speak (3); Charles Hunter suggesting venues from which WSC could speak.Also includes: copies of letters from WSC to the individuals mentioned above and a note from Violet Pearman [Secretary to WSC]...
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22 Apr 1932 - 04 Jul 1932
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Public and Political: General: Resignation of Foreign Secretary., 26 Jan 1938 - 25 Feb 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/346
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Messages from the general public on the resignation of Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, with correspondents including: [?] Dennis Haselgrove; 1st Lord Askwith; Norman Holden; [?] Peter Freeman; Hugh Adair; Margaret Kidd [Margaret Macdonald]; Sir Bernard Pares.Subjects include: support for WSC and Eden and hostility to the Government's negotiations with Italy; WSC's speech supporting Eden [22 February]; the danger of alienating the United States; suggestions that WSC...
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26 Jan 1938 - 25 Feb 1938
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Public and Political: General: Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm., 11 Feb 1936 - 21 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/272
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Lloyd [of Dolobran, President of the Navy League] on WSC speaking to the League (2); Sir John Thornycroft [President and Director, J I Thornycroft and Company Limited] on his firm's designs for an aircraft carrier and anti-submarine craft and cuts in the shipbuilding industry (with a description of the anti-submarine craft); Maitland Boucher [former member of the Naval Air Division] on meeting WSC about the Fleet Air Arm (3); Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald...
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11 Feb 1936 - 21 Dec 1936
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Public and Political: General: The New Commonwealth., 15 Dec 1935 - 30 Jul 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/284
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Davies [Chairman, New Commonwealth Society] on subjects including WSC's speeches, his advocacy of an international police force, the shortcomings of the League of Nations, the aims of the New Commonwealth Society and their similarity to WSC's, inviting WSC to be President of the society, the Peace Society, the ultimate aim of building up an international air force, and reducing the air strength of individual nations, and the British contribution to the League...
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15 Dec 1935 - 30 Jul 1936
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Public and Political: General: The New Commonwealth., 01 Aug 1936 - 22 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/285
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Davies, Chairman, New Commonwealth Society, on subjects including WSC's importance as a leader for a federal Europe, maintaining impartiality between France and Germany, the need to treat Germany as a potential member of a European Confederation, a possible British and European federal campaign for WSC, suggesting that he should speak for the society in Germany, bringing Sir Abe Bailey into the society, WSC's speeches for the society, keeping up the German...
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01 Aug 1936 - 22 Dec 1936
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Public and Political: General: various papers. [most date from 1943]., Jan 1939 - Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/462
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Includes: cutting from the Daily Telegraph on a broadcast by President [Franklin] Roosevelt on ?13 February 1943 on matters including the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers and the situation in North Africa; list of members of the Other Club; copies of poem by [Arthur] Weber-Brown on WSC and Roosevelt; extract from a lecture given by WSC to the Royal United Services Institution on 17 April 1901 on the war in South Africa; cutting from the St Louis Post-Dispatch [United States] on the...
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Jan 1939 - Dec 1943
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Aberdeen and Edinburgh [Scotland] (April 1946)., 29 May 1942 - 19 Jun 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/233
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Sir Ronald Matthews, Chairman, London and North Eastern Railway, on travel arrangements; Sir Thomas Mitchell, Lord Provost of Aberdeen, on arrangements for WSC's visit and granting him the Freedom of the City (16); Sir Thomas Jaffrey; Helen, Lady Jaffrey, on accommodation for WSC; Sir Hastings Ismay [Additional Secretary (Military) to the Cabinet] on statistics for Scots in the Armed Forces for WSC's speech in Aberdeen ("The Needs of a Sick World", 27...
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29 May 1942 - 19 Jun 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Ayr [Scotland] (May 1947)., 27 Nov 1946 - 09 Aug 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/251
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Sir Charles MacAndrew on accommodation for WSC; Robert Brown, Town Clerk, Ayr, on arrangements for WSC receiving an honorary burgess-ship (14); Sir Thomas Moore [MP for Ayr Burgh] on invitations for WSC, and WSC's speech at Ayr ["Trust the People", 16 May 1947] (3); Sir Arthur Young [MP for Partick, Glasgow] (6); Lieutenant- General Sir Robert Sturges, Royal Marines Association, asking WSC to visit the Ayrshire branch of the association; James Stuart...
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27 Nov 1946 - 09 Aug 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Blenheim [Oxfordshire] (August 1947)., 03 Jun 1947 - 16 Aug 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/253
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Mary, Lady Blandford]; [Arthur] Douglas Dodds-Parker [MP for Banbury, Oxfordshire] on numbers attending a fete at Blenheim Palace, and the success of WSC's speech at the fete ["A Doctor's Mandate", 4 August 1947]. Also includes notes and correspondence by CSC and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow] and Elizabeth Gilliatt, WSC's secretaries.Other subjects include: WSC...
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03 Jun 1947 - 16 Aug 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: Denmark., Oct 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/278
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Presscuttings, from British, Danish and Swedish press on WSC's visit to Denmark, Oct 1950 File includes cuttings from the Daily Dispatch, the Sheffield Telegraph, the News Chronicle; the Birmingham Post; the Daily Telegraph; The Times; the Newcastle Journal; the Daily Mail; the Daily Graphic; the Daily Express; and the Yorkshire Post; on speech in the KB Hall, Copenhagen on the United Europe movement, the Soviet Union and the European Army [11 Oct] [this speech is not included in Complete...
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Oct 1950
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland (August - September 1946): press cuttings., 12 Sep 1946 - 11 Oct 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/248
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Press cuttings on WSC's visit, on subjects including: WSC's visits to Lausanne, Zurich, Berne and Geneva; WSC's speech at the University of Zurich ["The Tragedy of Europe", 19th September 1946] on the need to establish a United States of Europe; Walter Thompson, WSC's police guard; WSC's painting; a planned attack on WSC.
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12 Sep 1946 - 11 Oct 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland (August - September 1946) Wel - Z., 10 Dec 1944 - 10 Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/247
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Victor Holbek, Danish Consul Royal in Switzerland; Duncan [? Sandys] on the broadcast of WSC's speech at the University of Zurich ["The Tragedy of Europe", 19th September 1946]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by Elizabeth Gilliatt, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], M Staite and "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow], WSC's secretaries. Most of the papers in this file date from 1946, and a large proportion are in French or...
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10 Dec 1944 - 10 Dec 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: the Netherlands (May 1946): arrangements and official papers., 19 Nov 1945 - 19 Jun 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/234A-B
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Sir Neville Bland, British Ambassador to the Netherlands (7); [Edgar] Michiels van Verduynen, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Britain, on arrangements for the visit and the award of an honorary doctorate to WSC from the University of Leyden (4); 13th Lord Reay [earlier Aeneas Mackay], Foreign Office (4); A P C van Karnebeek, First Secretary, Embassy of the Netherlands (4); J W Meijer Ranneft, former Chairman, People's Council in the Dutch East Indies...
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19 Nov 1945 - 19 Jun 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States (January - March 1946) E - G., May 1945 - 10 Sep 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/226
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: General Ira Eaker, Deputy Commander, United States Army Air Forces (2); Dwight Eisenhower on subjects including the death of Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to Franklin Roosevelt], and histories of the Second World War (5); Harry Butcher, former naval aide to Eisenhower, on publishing his diaries; J C Thomson [British Consul, Miami] (3); Sir Francis Evans [British Consul-General, New York]; Clarence Streit, President, Federal Union; Millard...
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May 1945 - 10 Sep 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States (January - March 1946) N - R., 29 Nov 1945 - 17 May 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/229
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: James Angell, Public Service Counsellor, National Broadcasting Company Incorporated [NBC] on recordings of WSC's speeches (2); Gilbert Grosvenor, President, National Geographic Society, on maps given to WSC; Bruce Bliven, President, New Republic magazine, on a special Franklin Roosevelt issue (2); Douglas Robey, British Vice-Consul, New York, on subjects including a reception for WSC (5); Sir Francis Evans [British Consul-General, New York] (3);...
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29 Nov 1945 - 17 May 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States (January - March 1946) S - Z., 03 Oct 1945 - 07 Aug 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/230A-B
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Jorge Sanchez (5); Douglas Robey [British Vice-Consul, New York]; Iriney Georgevitch, Serbian Bishop of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Albert Canning, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Special Branch, on WSC's police guard; Charles Scribner; [Walter] Bedell Smith; "Betty", Harold Stark; Sir William Stephenson [Director, British Security Co-ordination] on WSC meeting the lawyer...
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03 Oct 1945 - 07 Aug 1946
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Public speeches and interviews, 1915-09 - 1916-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 5/13
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Texts, drafts and cuttings of speeches by McKenna on subjects including: keeping down wages; relations between Glasgow [Scotland] and the Navy and the qualities of seamen; trade during and after the war; the relative financial strengths of Britain and Germany; the Anglo-French exchange; Britain's financial mobilisation; Canada's financial achievements.
Also includes related correspondence with individuals including: Charles Masterman [Director of Wellington House Propaganda...
Dates:
1915-09 - 1916-11
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