Canada (nation)
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Official: Cabinet: papers 460 - 484., 29 Jul 1925 - 19 Nov 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/45
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Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the Representation of the People (Economy Provisions) Bill, the award of the Irish Boundary Commission, International Labour Conference conventions on workmen's compensation, and the draft Police Pensions Bill; a draft of the Representation Bill; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on emergency arrangements in case of strikes; a Ministry...
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29 Jul 1925 - 19 Nov 1925
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Official: Cabinet: Unemployment Policy Committee: papers., 05 Jul 1928 - 19 Jul 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/216
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Includes reports on various subjects by various individuals including: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on industrial transference, migration to Canada; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on amalgamation of industries; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on the health of school children in distressed areas; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on grants for...
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05 Jul 1928 - 19 Jul 1928
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Official: Cabinet: Unemployment Policy Committee: related Cabinet papers and conclusions., 27 Jun 1928 - 20 Jul 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/217
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Includes papers by various individuals including: Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, on overseas settlement; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on the Industrial Transference Board; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, and Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple], Minister of Transport, on concentration and anticipation; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on...
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27 Jun 1928 - 20 Jul 1928
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Official: Cabinet: War Policy Committee: correspondence and papers., Aug 1915 - Oct 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/61
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Correspondents include: Sir Reginald Brade [Secretary, War Office] on machine gun wastage; [Lord] Curzon [of Kedleston, Lord Privy Seal]; [3rd Lord] Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer] on population calculations and compulsory military service (2); Major General Charles Callwell [Director of Military Operations at the War Office](4); Austen Chamberlain [Secretary of State for India]; Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister]; Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] on the...
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Aug 1915 - Oct 1915
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Official: Colonial Office: All Red Route: papers., 1907 - 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/52
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Correspondents include: Sir Charles Rey [Secretary to All Red Route Committee, Board of Trade] (3); Sir James Mackay [later 1st Lord Inchcape]; Sir Alfred Jones (2); Sir Wilfrid Laurier [Prime Minister of Canada]; David Lloyd George [President of the Board of Trade].Subjects include: steamship services and subsidies; matters concerning the choice of route for the Imperial Route: Great Britain to Canada, Australia, New Zealand (and Hong Kong); the inter-colonial railway of Canada.Also...
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1907 - 1908
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Official: Colonial Office: British North America Act: correspondence and notes., 20 May 1907 - 17 Jul 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/45
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Correspondents include: Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada; William Fielding [Minister of Finance in Canada]; Richard McBride, Premier of British Columbia [Canada] (6); Hamar Greenwood MP (2).Also includes drafts and copies of telegrams from WSC to some of those mentioned above and WSC's hand-written notes; a cutting from the Times.
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20 May 1907 - 17 Jul 1907
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Conference: Colonial preference: notes and printed papers., 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/30
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Includes notes on Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada; statements and reports of House of Commons business; Colonial Office, Board of Trade and Foreign Office notes and printed papers (including by 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] and WSC); Commonwealth of Australia papers; resolutions of the Australian, Cape Colony [South Africa], and New Zealand governments for the conference; details of decisions of previous conferences; WSC's hand-written...
Dates:
1907
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Conference: printed minutes of proceedings., Apr 1907 - May 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/29
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Subjects covered by the minutes include the constitution of the conference; the organisation of the Colonial Office; colonial representation on the Committee of Imperial Defence; military defence; naval defence; emigration; naturalisation; double income tax; silver coinage; decimal currency and metric system; imperial court of appeal; preferential trade; imperial surtax on foreign imports; coastwise trade; commercial treaties; trade marks and patents; trade statistics; company law; admitting...
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Apr 1907 - May 1907
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 14 Apr 1921 - 20 May 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/4
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Correspondents include: [1st Lord] Curzon of Kedleston [Lord President of the Council] on a subsidy to King Hussein of the Hejaz [Hijaz, Arabia]; Walter Long on the Petroleum Department; Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] (3); General Sir Aylmer Haldane, Commander in Chief Mesopotamia [Iraq] on affairs in the country including evacuation and the position of Feisal; Prince Arthur of Connaught [Governor General and Commander in Chief South Africa] on his tour round South Africa; Sir...
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14 Apr 1921 - 20 May 1921
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, mainly on South African affairs., 09 Feb 1906 - 12 May 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/10
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Correspondents include: Cecil Grenfell; Dudley Marjoribanks [later 3rd Lord Tweedmouth, Military Secretary to Lord Selborne] and his wife (2); Abe Bailey (2); Leonard Courtney; 2nd Lord Selborne [Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for South Africa] (4); Herbert de Reuter [Auguste Reuter] on criticism by WSC of bias in Reuter's coverage of South African affairs and the Munshi expedition in Nigeria (3); James Hutton, [Vice President] of the British Cotton Growing Association; Jan...
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09 Feb 1906 - 12 May 1906
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, mainly on South African affairs., 21 May 1906 - 28 Jun 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/12
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Correspondents include: Abe Bailey; 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (5); Moreton Frewen on timber leases and the [Eldama ravine, British East Africa, later Kenya] railway concession (3); Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson [Governor and Commander in Chief, Cape Colony, South Africa] on subjects including his future prospects; 2nd Lord Selborne [Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for South Africa] (2); Messrs Gregory, Eyles and Waring (4), and Messrs...
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21 May 1906 - 28 Jun 1906
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, much on South African affairs., 01 Nov 1906 - 30 Nov 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/17
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Correspondents include: Sir Charles Eliot asking to be considered as successor to Sir Frederick Lugard as [High Commissioner and Commander in Chief of Northern Nigeria]; 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (3) on subjects including honours in Natal [South Africa], WSC's comments on departmental minutes and Colonel Sir Percy Girouard; Mackenzie King [Deputy Minister of Labour, Canada] sending a memorandum on strike breakers being brought into Canada from Great...
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01 Nov 1906 - 30 Nov 1906
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, much on South African affairs., 02 Jan 1907 - 31 Jan 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/21
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Correspondents include: 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (10) on subjects including a difference of opinion between Elgin and WSC over the case of a suspended guard on the Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] railway (2); Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] on the Uganda railway; Hugh Bertram (Colonial Office) on Newfoundland [Canada] fisheries; Lieutenant-Colonel James Sadler [Governor, British East Africa Protectorate, later Kenya] on railway construction; the Bishop...
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02 Jan 1907 - 31 Jan 1907
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, much on South African affairs., 02 May 1907 - 29 May 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/25
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Correspondents include: Louis Botha [Premier of Transvaal, South Africa] (3) on subjects including his stay in London; Salvatore Zammit on Maltese affairs; Josiah Wedgwood MP and ?Charles Strachey on taxation in northern Nigeria; 4th Lord Grey [Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada] on subjects including Canadian affairs; Francis Hopwood [later 1st Lord Southborough, Permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies] (4); Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson [Governor and Commander in Chief, Cape...
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02 May 1907 - 29 May 1907
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Official: Colonial Office: expenditure., c 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/46
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Includes notes and papers by Colonial Office officials and printed copies of correspondence from 2nd Lord Selborne, Governor of the Transvaal [and High Commissioner for South Africa] (4) and 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and a minute by WSC.Subjects include: comparison of annual expenditure with that of previous years and details of debt; import duty on various articles; various matters concerning South African politics, including the Transvaal loan...
Dates:
c 1907
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Official: Colonial Office: Minutes and telegrams., 09 Jan 1922 - 22 Sep 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/26
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WSC's copies of minutes and telegrams to various individuals including: Sir John Chancellor; Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner, Mesopotamia [later Iraq] on negotiations with Turkey and reduction of forces in Iraq; [General Jan Smuts] Prime Minister of South Africa; Sir James Masterton Smith [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on the Imperial War Museum and the Imperial Institute; 1st Lord Byng [Governor General in Canada] on the embargo on Canadian cattle; Sir John...
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09 Jan 1922 - 22 Sep 1922
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Official: Colonial Office: Newfoundland [Canada] fisheries: drafts, papers, and correspondence., 1906 - 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/20
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Correspondents include (mostly printed up as official papers): Sir William MacGregor [Governor of Newfoundland]; Hugh Cox (Colonial Office); 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Sir Eldon Gorst and Sir Eric Barrington [Assistant Under Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs]; Whitelaw Reid [United States Ambassador to Great Britain]; Elihu Root [Secretary of State, United States]; Sir Mortimer Durand [British Ambassador to the United States]; Sir Robert Bond...
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1906 - 1907
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Official: Colonial Office: notes and printed papers., c 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/47
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Includes a review of the mutual relations of the British South African colonies by "S" [2nd Lord Selborne, Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for South Africa]; a Canadian resolution on immigration; British Cotton Growing Association pamphlet and report; copy of the South African Bulletin; financial and armament details for the East Africa Protectorate [later Kenya], Uganda and Somaliland [later Somalia]; notes on the duty on salt, elementary education in Ceylon [later Sri...
Dates:
c 1907
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Official: Colonial Office: papers and correspondence., Mar 1904 - Nov 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/2
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Includes reports by Captain Ian Hogg, officer commanding the Niger Expeditionary Force, on operations to quell unrest in the Asaba hinterland (by the Ekumeku Society [an anti-colonial group]) and the Irua country [Nigeria]; cutting from the Pall Mall Gazette criticising a speech by WSC on the administration of South Africa, calling him the "The Blenheim Pup"; detailed exposition from Sir Graham Bower, [Colonial Secretary] of Mauritius, to Sir Montagu Ommanney [Permanent Under Secretary for...
Dates:
Mar 1904 - Nov 1906
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Official: Colonial Office: Telegrams regarding Chanak [later Cannakkale, Turkey]., 16 Sep 1922 - 14 Oct 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/28
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Copies of telegrams mainly between WSC and the Governor Generals of the Dominions, Lord Byng, Governor General of Canada, 1st Lord Jellicoe, Governor General and Commander in Chief, New Zealand, Prince Arthur of Connaught, Governor General and Commander in Chief South Africa, 1st Lord Forster, Governor General and Commander in Chief, Australia about the Chanak crisis.Subjects covered include: bulletins describing negotiations with Turkey and with Mustafa Kemal Pasha [later Ataturk];...
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16 Sep 1922 - 14 Oct 1922
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence: prints., 18 May 1911 - 29 Aug 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 24/5
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Includes: WSC on the new German Naval Law and increase of the German Navy; minutes from 2 meetings of the Committee of Imperial Defence attended by Canadian ministers, on subjects including: the combination of British foreign and naval policy, the development of the German Navy, naval power in the Mediterranean and Canada's role in naval defence; Sir Charles Ottley, Secretary to the Committee, on representation of the Dominions on the Committee; a translation of the German Naval Law...
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18 May 1911 - 29 Aug 1912
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Official: Munitions., 03 Jul 1917 - 31 Dec 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/22
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Imperial Munitions Board of Canada Correspondence and papers on production of munitions in Canada, mainly telegrams from Robert Brand to the Ministry of Munitions. Including papers on explosion aboard munitions ship "Mont Blanc" at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dec 1917, with 5000 casualties.
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03 Jul 1917 - 31 Dec 1917
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Official: Munitions., 01 Jan 1918 - 12 Nov 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/23
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Imperial Munitions Board of Canada Correspondence and papers on production of munitions in Canada, mainly telegrams from Robert Brand to the Ministry of Munitions.
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01 Jan 1918 - 12 Nov 1918
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Official: Munitions., 12 Jul 1917 - 30 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/31
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War Cabinet - Papers and Correspondence Memoranda by WSC on the Gun ammunition programme for 1918, with special reference to Canadian supplies Letter from WSC to the Prime Minister [David Lloyd George] on relations between the Ministry of Munitions, the War Office and the Admiralty; Cabinet Papers by the Ministry of Munitions on manpower, wastage of guns, the supply of steel plates to Italy; Minutes by Sir William Weir and Sir John Hunter on airship construction policy Memorandum by Sir...
Dates:
12 Jul 1917 - 30 Sep 1917
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Official: Prime Minister: printed copies of Personal Telegrams from WSC bound ususally in chronological order, with alphabetical name index at the back., May 1940 - Dec 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/14
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Includes texts of telegrams from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Vice-Admiral [John] Cunningham [Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron]; [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; [Peter] Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood, Ambassador to Spain on Special Mission]; Sir Roger Keyes [Special Liaison Officer to King Leopold of Belgium]; Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada; 11th Lord Lothian [earlier...
Dates:
May 1940 - Dec 1940
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