United States (nation)
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(Untitled), 27 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/116-117
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] regarding the project to send supplies from the United States to French North Africa: comments on the value of contacts between the United States and Vichy France but asks that nothing should interfere with operation "IRONCLAD" [operation against Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; comments on the operation and proposes dropping leaflets suggesting the attack was Anglo-American.
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27 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 27 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/118
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Telegram from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] (United States) to WSC: comments on hostile criticism of Britain, the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] and the war effort in the United States.
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27 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 29 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/126-129
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] regarding bombing: states that bombing attacks are being made on U-boat nests and reports a successful raid on Lubeck [Germany]; comments on the policy of menacing U-boats in the Bay of Biscay and his keenness to add six bomber squadrons to this new Biscay patrol; comments on the need to bomb Germany and on a structural defect to the wing tip of Lancasters which requires the laying up of four squadrons; appeals that...
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29 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/25-30
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: states that the position at home "has always been quite solid" but that disasters made people restive in Parliament and the press; comments on the new position of "Dickie" [Lord Louis Mountbatten] as Chief of Combined Operations; predicts that Japan will press northwards through Burma [later Myanmar] and comments on British reinforcements to the Far East which could be diverted to Australia in the event of an...
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01 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/33
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Telegram from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] (Washington [United States]) to WSC reporting on his meeting with the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: states that the President is instructing the Under-Secretary of State [Sumner Welles] to give a plan to the Ambassador [? Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] and that the President wished the Under-Secretary to deal with the Ambassador because of the "difficult...
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01 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/41
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Telegram from the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt to WSC regarding his request for American assistance in transporting Spitfires to Malta [see CHAR 20/73/13-14] and commenting on the availability of the Furious.
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03 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/43
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Telegram from the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, to WSC opposing the use of leaflets and other informal methods to link the United States with the operation against Madagascar ["Ironclad"].
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03 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 05 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/65-67
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] reciting detailed comments by the Chiefs of Staff on offensive naval action in the Far East: states that it is necessary to remain strategically on the defensive in both the Indian and Pacific Oceans and outlines reasons; comments on the implementation of a future strategic offensive and interim offensive action; comments on the relative strengths of the fleets of the United States and Japan.
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05 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 07 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/68
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] commenting on the presence of a large Japanese naval force in the Indian Ocean; wonders whether these movements are a prelude to an invasion of Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] and suggests that the United States Pacific Fleet might be used to compel the Japanese naval forces back to the Pacific.
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07 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 09 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/70
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Telegram from Sir Stafford Cripps [Lord Privy Seal] to WSC regarding help given by Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Johnson, Personal Representative of the President of the United States in India, and asking WSC to thank him. Received 8 April 1942 British Time.
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09 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 09 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/72
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Telegram from WSC to the Lord Privy Seal [Sir Stafford Cripps] repeated to the Viceroy [and Governor-General] of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] and the Commander-in-Chief [General Sir Archibald Wavell] commenting on the position in India of Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Johnson [Personal Representative of the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, in India] and on the attitude of Roosevelt to the involvement of the United States in the Indian constitutional...
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09 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 12 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/85-87
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: comments on the President's proposals for the future of the war which will be discussed by the Defence Committee on 14 April; comments on the President's message regarding India [see CHAR 20/73/91-92] and on the distress that a serious difference between them would cause him.
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12 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 12 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/91-92
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Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to Harry Hopkins [Special adviser and assistant to Roosevelt] reciting a message for WSC regarding the break-down of negotiations in India: comments on public opinion in the United States regarding India; asks that the departure of Sir Stafford Cripps [Lord Privy Seal] be postponed and negotiations resumed; suggests the creation of a Nationalist Government in India similar to the government of the United States under the...
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12 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 15 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/100-102
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] concerning "the grave situation" arising from the large Japanese naval presence in the Indian Ocean: suggests alternative plans for moving capital ships to the Indian Ocean; presses for American heavy bombers in India; comments on his meeting with the President's envoys and states that he is sending the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] to see the President and Admiral Ernest King...
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15 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 31 Jul 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94A/71
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Letter from WSC to Averell Harriman marked "Most secret" stating that he had hoped that the increase in the United States production which followed Britain's increased acceptance would all be 76 mm tanks and that he had hoped that the addition of 1000 would have increased their share which was expected to be 60% of their programme of tanks with 76 mm guns and that now Britain's share of these tanks was now to be a matter of assignment he would have to accept the difficulty of segregating the...
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31 Jul 1943
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(Untitled), Nov 1943 - Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/134/1
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Printed papers and minutes of the meetings of the Sextant [Cairo Conference November 1943] and Eureka [Teheran Conference, November-December 1943] Conferences. Indexed. Published by the Office, United States Secretary and Office of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, in 1943.
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Nov 1943 - Dec 1943
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(Untitled), 22 Jan 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/72
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Letter from President Roosevelt to WSC introducing "my old friend" Samuel Rosenman [Special Counsel to President of the United States] whom WSC has met several times in Washington [United States] and Hyde Park [New York, United States] and stating that he has asked him to undertake a supply and economic mission. Expresses hope that WSC will facilitate his work and study, and will have time to talk with him. [Signed typescript].
Dates:
22 Jan 1945
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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), 28 Feb 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/73
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Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and top secret": offers deep sympathy on the death of General Edwin Watson [Secretary to President of the United States]; comments on the House of Commons debate on Poland and states that "there is a good deal of uneasiness in both Parties that we are letting the Poles down"; expresses the view that as many representative Poles should be invited as soon as possible to the consultations in Moscow [Soviet Union] and that above all...
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28 Feb 1945
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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), 18 Mar 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/76-77
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Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and private": expresses hope that his rather numerous telegrams are not becoming a bore and reflects on the development and importance of their relationship, "Our friendship is the rock on which I build for the future of the world so long as I am one of the builders"; states that he is sending most of his Ministerial colleagues to Washington or San Francisco [United States] on one Mission or another, that he is looking forward to...
Dates:
18 Mar 1945
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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), 30 Mar 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/78
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Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and top secret" referring to the abundance of messages from Roosevelt this morning and expressing his delight that the President is back in Washington and "in such vigour". Refers to meetings with Bernard Baruch and John Winant [United States Ambassador to Great Britain], and to CSC's trip to the Soviet Union which "hangs on my mind". Asks for confirmation that Roosevelt has received his telegram 914 "of a purely private...
Dates:
30 Mar 1945
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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), 28 Mar 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/81
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Telegram from Alfred Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich, British Ambassador to France] to Foreign Office marked "special (economic, supply and relief)" reporting on the progress of the Rosenman mission to France. States that Samuel Rosenman [Special Counsel to President of the United States] has had detailed discussions with various sections of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force concerned with with civil affairs, transportation and all supplies, including coal and Pol[and]....
Dates:
28 Mar 1945
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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), 03 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/82
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Letter from Samuel Rosenman [Special Counsel to the President of the United States] (The White House, Washington, [United States]) to WSC thanking him for his courtesy and hospitality during Rosenman's recent visit to London, extending a word of appreciation to WSC's Ministers, and commenting on the death of President Roosevelt: "I know what the passing of the President means to you in a personal sense - as it does to me - and therefore can send you my understanding sympathy". [Signed...
Dates:
03 May 1945
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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), 13 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/85
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Note from John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] to WSC informing him that John Winant [United States Ambassador to Great Britain] had telephoned to say that he thought WSC's message to Eleanor Roosevelt "was the most beautiful he had ever read". [Initialled typescript] With tick in red ink, possibly by WSC.
Dates:
13 Apr 1945
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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), 13 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/86
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Text of message from WSC to Eleanor Roosevelt, in the hand of John Peck [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] on 10 Downing Street paper, offering his "most profound sympathy in your grievous loss which is also the loss of the British Nation and the cause of freedom in every land". WSC states that, "As for myself, I have lost a dear & cherished friendship which was forged in the fire of war". Initialled and dated by WSC in red ink.
Dates:
13 Apr 1945
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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), 17 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/87
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Note from John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC informing him that a large number of letters have come from the general public expressing sympathy with WSC personally on the death of President Roosevelt, and that a small selection have been sent to the American Embassy for John Winant [United States Ambassador to Great Britain]. Colville mentions that a large number of these letters express the hope that a statue of the President will soon be erected by public...
Dates:
17 Apr 1945
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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.