Germany
Found in 1099 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 14 Feb 1912
Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, enclosing a translation of the proposed new German Navy Law. [Printed].
(Untitled), 09 Mar 1912
Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, on the implications of the new German Naval Law. [Printed].
(Untitled), 18 Apr 1912 - 19 Apr 1912
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].
(Untitled), 22 Jun 1912
Cabinet paper by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the naval situation in relation to maintaining superiority over Germany. [Printed].
(Untitled), [Jun] 1912
Cabinet Paper by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the new German Navy Law. [Printed].
(Untitled), [Jun] 1912
White Paper giving a translation of the German Naval Law Amendment Bill. [Published by HMSO, Cd.6117].
(Untitled), 26 Aug 1912
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].
(Untitled), [1913]
Letter from J Norton Griffiths (Train en-route to Baku [Azerbaydzhan]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Anglo-German naval relations.
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1913
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].
(Untitled), 17 Jan 1913 - 18 Jan 1913
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fuel. Includes press cuttings on the use of oil motors in German shipyards and a letter from Sir [Thomas] Boverton Redwood [Adviser on Petroleum to the Admiralty] to Fisher.
(Untitled), [1913]
Forecast of the increased scale of the fleets maintained in commission compared to Germany, together with approximate annual cost of maintaining various ships in different conditions. [Printed].
(Untitled), 12 Jun 1913 - 14 Jul 1913
Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Alick Russell, Military Attache at the British Embassy, Berlin [Germany] on the development of the German Airship Fleet; includes covering note by WSC. [Printed, and circulated to the Cabinet].
(Untitled), 18 Apr 1913
Memorandum by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the problem of attack from overseas by Germany. [Printed].
(Untitled), 24 Apr 1913 - 26 Apr 1913
Memoranda by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the possibilities of attack from overseas by Germany; includes printed marginal notes by the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven]. Also includes Admiralty papers "The Timetable of a Nightmare", giving a scenario of a successful German invasion, and an alternative scenario for a German attack in "A Bolt From the Grey". [Printed].
(Untitled), 11 Dec 1913 - 13 Dec 1913
Memorandum by the Admiralty War Staff on the fifty per cent superiority of "Dreadnought" ships in Home Waters, noting the margins of safety maintained against France, 1900-1905, and against Germany, 1911-1912, and 1915; also includes a note on the comparative strength of the British and French fleets during the Napoleonic Wars. [Printed].
(Untitled), 25 May 1913
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].
(Untitled), 16 Jul 1943
(Untitled), 28 Oct 1942
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1942
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to Secretary of State for Air [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later Lord Thurso] and Chief of the Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] regarding the bombing of Berlin [Germany].
(Untitled), 19 Aug 1942
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to the Chief of the Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] marked "most secret and personal" regarding heavy night bombing raids on Berlin [Germany] Annotated, probably during writing of WSC's "The Second World War" c1948-1954.
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
(Untitled), 18 Apr 1943
Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal and Secret" asking his permission on behalf of Arthur Harris (Commander in Chief Bomber Command) to use an extract from one of his recent telegrams regarding the British bombardment of Germany and informing him of the success of their air attacks this week, adding that their will be a lull in activity in Tunisia to prepare for a great onslaught.
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1939
Letter from WSC to Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] on the wording of proposed peace conditions with Germany. [carbon].
(Untitled), 21 Nov 1939
Letter from [1st] Lord Vansittart [Chief Diplomatic Adviser to Foreign Secretary] to WSC, enclosing copy of letter to Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, containing information from a private source on German air and naval capabilities; with letter of thanks from WSC to Vansittart.
(Untitled), 25 Nov 1939
Letter from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin], Foreign Secretary, to WSC on German and Soviet intentions towards Scandinavia.