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(Untitled), 11 Mar 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/35-39
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the fact that the Vote on Account approved by the House of Commons will supply the Government for six weeks and is therefore indicative of the Government's uncertain position and the financial powers of the House of Commons; reaction by Austen Chamberlain and F E Smith [later Lord Birkenhead] to the Government's decision; Sir Edward Grey's statement of Foreign Office policy on the Belgian...
Dates: 11 Mar 1910
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(Untitled), 20 Sep [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6A/152-153
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Minute from WSC to the Director of the Intelligence Division, Admiralty [Captain (William) Reginald Hall] on projections for dreadnought and cruiser strength in the German War Fleet of 1920. [Carbon].

Dates: 20 Sep [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), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6B/417-428
Scope and Contents Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] stating that it was much harder for the Royal Navy to stop raids or invasion from Germany than it was 15 years earlier from France, due to the superior defences and number of naval bases on the south coast; WSC stresses the inadequacy of the east coast defences, particularly compared with the natural defensive and military strength of the German North Sea and Baltic coasts; also the difficulty of keeping a close watch on the German naval exits and...
Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6A/215
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Statistics on changes on military and naval expenditure in Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Japan, 1904-1913. [Carbon].

Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/3
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff.Subjects covered by the minutes include: the Japanese threat to the Falkland Islands; discussion of operation "Ironclad" [code name for British occupation of Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; the British naval...
Dates: 01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1942 - 30 Nov 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/9
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, November 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War...
Dates: 01 Nov 1942 - 30 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/10
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, December 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Director of Movements [War Office, General Noel Holmes]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the minutes include:...
Dates: 01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Aug 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/29/102-106
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Note of conversation between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Captain Wilfred Henderson [former Naval Attache to Berlin] on anti-British feeling in Germany, the treatment of British nationals in Germany, and the departure of the British Embassy. [Carbon].

Dates: 08 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