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Found in 967 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 26 Dec 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/47-48
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Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Fallodon, Christon Bank, Northumberland) to WSC justifying his warning to WSC to be careful about discussing foreign policy with prominent politicians in France.

Dates: 26 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/42/86
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Part of a memorandum on duties on manufactured imports in France and Germany. Typescript.

Dates: [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/42/95
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"Le rapprochement Franco-Allemand condition de la paix du monde": proof sheets of a speech of 28 April 1909 by M D'Estournelles de Constant, member of the French Senate, in the Upper House in Berlin [Germany]. Addressed to WSC in D'Estournelles de Constant's hand, 7 May 1909 15 sheets.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Jul 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/52/59
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Letter from Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres] (22 North Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, [London]) to WSC enclosing military maps and a pamphlet on the Normandy peninsula [France] to illustrate his recent remarks on the strength of an Anglo- French military alliance.

Dates: 23 Jul 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Aug [1911]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/53/21-22
Scope and Contents Notes by WSC on conversations between the German Emperor [Kaiser Wilhelm II and Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres] in which the Emperor gave his views on: David Lloyd George's "provocative" speech at the Mansion House; the Agadir [Morocco] crisis; the "racial" nature of future great wars; the efficiency of the German army and the danger faced by any country which confronted it; the weakness of the French army; the hostility to Germany of the Daily Mail and the Times. Title in...
Dates: 10 Aug [1911]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Sep 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/53/28
Scope and Contents Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth (Shire Donald Hotel, Newcastle, County Down, [Ulster, Ireland]) to WSC reporting that he has written to Printing House Square about the reporting of WSC's speeches [in Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]] and criticising the speeches of some of WSC's colleagues on the international situation because they betray a lack of awareness that Germany's army is unwieldy, bureaucratic and hidebound and that she really fears the French army. Asserts...
Dates: 18 Sep 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Oct 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/62/93
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Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Foreign Office) to WSC on the reaction in Britain, Germany and France to WSC to WSC's speech on naval expenditure.

Dates: 21 Oct 1913
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 27 Jul 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/64/2
Scope and Contents Letter from Charles a Court Repington (Naval and Military Club, 94 Piccadilly, [London]) to General Sir Ian Hamilton reporting the views of "L" [? a high-ranking German] on the European situation, in particular the keenness of [?Kaiser Wilhelm II] to avoid war, Germany's ignorance of the wording of the Austrian ultimatum [to Serbia] (which is clearly the work of Count Forgach) before it was issued, the nature of the Russian ultimatum to Austria when Austria invades Serbia, "the sin of...
Dates: 27 Jul 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 31 Jul 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/64/5
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Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Arthur Ponsonby agreeing that Britain should remain neutral as long as her own interests or treaty obligations are not involved but adding that a German attack on France or Belgium would change the current position. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh. A typescript copy at CHAR 2/64/6.

Dates: 31 Jul 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 08 Dec 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/71/148-149
Scope and Contents Letter from the Comte de Bresson (7 Rue Choron, [Paris, France]) to WSC enclosing and commenting on notes on Greece submitted to the Prime Minister of France [see CHAR 2/71/150-153], stressing the necessity from the Allies' point of view of removing King Constantine, lamenting the functionary spirit which currently characterises the French war effort, calling for vigorous efforts by the Allies in April, and warning that the Germans are building a submarine fleet with a view to cutting off...
Dates: 08 Dec 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 25 May 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/72/28-29
Scope and Contents Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] (36 Berkeley Square, [London]) to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [later Lord Jellicoe] noting that Jellicoe agrees with him that Britain should not keep a fleet in the Mediterranean to do the job of the French and Italian fleets, complaining that the French fleet has been virtually rebuilt in Malta dockyard, attacking the passive war policy of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour], noting the...
Dates: 25 May 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 16 Jan 1915 - 18 Jan 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/74/51
Scope and Contents Draft of an Admiralty note by WSC to the French government on the respective roles of British and French naval forces in the forthcoming attack on the Dardanelles forts and the seizure of Alexandretta (16 January). With related notes from James Masterton Smith to Lord Kitchener (16 January), and between WSC and Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (16 January). Grey believes the operation should be justified to Russia as a diversion to prevent Turkish pressure in the Caucasus....
Dates: 16 Jan 1915 - 18 Jan 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 26 Jan 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/74/54
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Memorandum by WSC to Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener on the terms of naval co-operation with France in the eastern Mediterranean. With note by Grey that French should be allowed to have what they want in this sphere, even a share in the occupation of Alexandretta. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/81/11.

Dates: 26 Jan 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 31 Jan 1915 - 03 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/74/56
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Letter in French from Victor Augagneur [French Minister of Marine] (Paris) to [WSC] indicating agreement with British proposals for Anglo-French naval co-operation in the eastern Mediterranean with reference to the attacks on the Dardanelles and Alexandretta (31 Jan). With notes that Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener have seen the letter and that WSC thinks it is satisfactory (3 February). Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/81/13.

Dates: 31 Jan 1915 - 03 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 05 Apr 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/3/101
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Letter from Peter Pollen, War Office, to WSC, giving details of military and naval expenditure in Russia, France, Germany and Italy.

Dates: 05 Apr 1902
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Apr 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/17/31-32
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Letter from Douglas M Gane (456 Great St Helen's, [London]) to WSC asserting that in view of the growth of French power on the Atlantic coast of Morocco Britain should have safeguarded her communications with Cape Colony [South Africa] by obtaining the right to use the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife [Canary Islands], which could have been done by including Spain in the recent Anglo-French agreement.

Dates: 16 Apr 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Sep 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/28/1-11
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Report by Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] to [King Edward VII] on his visit to Berlin [Germany] including accounts of conversations with the Kaiser and others on military and naval policy, Free Trade and relations between Britain, Germany and France. Typescript.

Dates: 02 Sep 1906
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Oct 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/54
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Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Foreign Office) to WSC referring to a form of words [concerning Anglo-French naval co-operation] suggested by Pierre-Paul Cambon [French Ambassador in London] for exchange between the two governments.

Dates: 10 Oct 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Nov 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/53/65-70
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Speech by in the House of Commons by Joseph Compton-Rickett on the need to maintain Britain's naval supremacy against a possible German threat and the "civilising" effects of a French presence in Tunis, Algeria and Morocco. Annotated typescipt.

Dates: 27 Nov 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Nov 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/53/80
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Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (The Times) to WSC quoting a passage on the danger of war between France and Germany and the need for Britain to be prepared. Signed typescript.

Dates: 16 Nov 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Dec 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/53/86-87
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Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to William Royle citing the growth of German naval power as the reason why Britain should not antagonise Russia in Persia [Iran]. Warns that France may be forced into war with Germany to avoid national humiliation, but hopes that the rise of democratic forces in Germany and the recovery of Russia after her disasters in Manchuria [China] will lessen the threat of German aggression. Signed and annotated typescript copy.

Dates: 20 Dec 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/54/40
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Article on the comparison between the imports and exports of Britain, the United States, Germany and France in 1903 and 1910. Printed. Sent with CHAR 2/54/26.

Dates: 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Jan 1945 - 29 Jan 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/209/1
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, January 1945.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Colonel Ian Jacob and Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; Sir Desmond Morton...
Dates: 01 Jan 1945 - 29 Jan 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open with the exception of minutes M293/5, M301/5, M497/5 and C42/5 which have been closed on Cabinet Office instructions under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act. Review 2032.
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1945 - 30 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/209/4
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1945.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; the Chief Whip [James Stuart]; Ralph...
Dates: 01 Apr 1945 - 30 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open, except for minutes M 293/5 and M 301/5 which are closed on Cabinet Office instructions under S 23 of the Freedom of Information Act. Review date 2032.
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(Untitled), 01 May 1945 - 31 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/209/5
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1945. Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chief Whip [James Stuart]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service]....
Dates: 01 May 1945 - 31 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open, except for minutes M 497/5 and C 42/5, which are closed on Cabinet Office instructions under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act. Review 2032.