United Kingdom (nation)
Found in 2763 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 12 Jul 1941
Letter from WSC to Joan Vickers thanking her for her letter on the burial of civilian war casualties and enclosing a memorandum on the subject.
(Untitled), 25 Feb 1941
Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Woolton [Minister of Food, earlier Frederick Marquis] on new regulations concerning rationing with a penalty of imprisonment for mixing foodstuffs such as meat and fish.
(Untitled), 02 Mar 1941
Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Woolton [Minister of Food, earlier Frederick Marquis] on regulation of foodstuffs; asks him to consult the Cabinet before embarking on any new schemes.
(Untitled), 04 Nov 1941
Letter from WSC to 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] thanking him for his letter on the decision of the Watching Committee on the Coal situation; suggests supplies of coal will comfortably last the winter as ex-miners have been brought back from other industries.
(Untitled), 17 Dec 1941
Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Woolton [Minister of Food, earlier Frederick Marquis] advising that he postpone rationing of sweets and chocolate until they can be brought into the Points Scheme.
(Untitled), Nov 1941
Newspaper cuttings from the Daily Mail reporting on the court case of the first girl fined for refusing to comply with a Ministry of Labour war work directive; annotated by WSC, with letters from Hubert Gee [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Labour and National Service] to John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC] explaining the case.
(Untitled), 07 Oct 1939
Letter from WSC to Sam [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood, Lord Privy Seal] with suggestions for the reorganisation of the Home Front and rationing. [draft; see CHAR 19/2A/51-53 for final version].
(Untitled), 01 Dec 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
(Untitled), 20 Nov 1939
Printed note by WSC on proposed changes to the black-out system.
(Untitled), 13 Nov 1940
Letters from "Jack", 4th Lord Camden, to WSC on the use of his home Bayham Abbey [Kent], by the military, the installation of a searchlight and subsequent bombing; annotated by WSC with a note to Sir James Grigg [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War] asking him for advice on the situation. [Manuscript].
(Untitled), 30 Nov 1940
Letter from Ernest Bevin, [Minister of Labour and National Service] to 2nd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer] explaining that workers are already being billeted in co-ordination with the Ministry of Health and local authorities.
(Untitled), 06 Oct 1940
Letter from [Arthur] Paul Boissier, Headmaster of Harrow School [Middlesex] to WSC describing the bombing of Harrow School when over two hundred incendiary devices fell in one night. [Manuscript].
(Untitled), 05 Jul 1940
Letter from WSC to Josiah Wedgwood thanking him for his letters and hoping that many more rifles can be produced to arm the Home Guard (L D V [Local Defence Volunteers]). [Carbon].
(Untitled), 14 Apr 1945
Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" reluctantly agreeing [to the possible use of pilotless bombers against German cities]; but emphasising the limited value of such action at such a late stage in the war and the effect of retaliation on London, indicating the level of losses to the Greater London area during the course of the war.
(Untitled), 15 Mar 1945
(Untitled), 26 Mar 1945
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1945
Cutting from the Daily Telegraph of letter to editor from Major Mowbray (District Warden, Blackheath [London]) referring to the remarks by Herbert Morrison [Home Secretary] that no alert had been sounded before the flying bomb fell near the Clock Tower, Lewisham, and stating that if a warning had been given the casualties would have been much greater as it fell on an air raid shelter which would have been full.
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1945
(Untitled), 30 Apr 1945
(Untitled), 10 Aug 1945
(Untitled), 10 Aug 1945
(Untitled), 10 Aug 1945
Letter from Herbert Morrison [Lord President of the Council] (Privy Council Office, Great George Street) to WSC marked "Secret" commenting on: the recent election campaign and remarks made by WSC on a visit to Lewisham [London]; WSC's method of conducting War Cabinet business; discussion on warnings for single V1s [flying bombs]; reaction to the subsequent incident at Lewisham; and hoping their disagreement will not have a long-term effect on their relationship. [signed].
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1945
Letter from WSC (Chartwell) to Herbert Morrison [Lord President of the Council] requesting an apology or withdrawal of Morrison's allegations about WSC's conduct concerning warnings for single V1 [flying] bombs and the subsequent Lewisham (London) incident, and commenting on discussion of warnings and Morrison's allegation that he had "countermanded" WSC's decision. [Carbon copy].
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1945
Cutting from the Daily Telegraph: letter from Major C H Mowbray, District Warden, Blackheath [London], stating that if a warning had been given before the flying bomb fell in Lewisham [London], the casualty list would have been higher as it fell on a shelter.