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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence M., 27 Apr 1949 - 10 Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/173
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Correspondents include: William Mabane; George Marshall, United States Secretary of Defence, comparing his current service with wartime (3); Julius Holmes, Charge d'Affaires, United States Embassy, London; Walter Gifford [United States Ambassador to Britain] (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Gifford Martel [former head of Military Mission to Moscow, Soviet Union] on banding the Allied armies together against the Soviet Union, and 1st Lord Montgomery's failure to exploit mobility and armour (2);...
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27 Apr 1949 - 10 Nov 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, Moran - Nixon., Jul 1953 - Dec 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/530A-B
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Correspondents include: various doctors on WSC's health, hearing aids and on gifts from WSC including Charles [1st Lord] Moran [earlier Sir Charles Wilson] (4), Dorothy, Lady Moran [earlier Dorothy, Lady Wilson], Herbert Seddon (5), Dr D Roberts (4), Jacques Vialle (3) and Philip Yeoman; [1st] Lord Morrison of Lambeth; Prince Hassan Ben El Mehdi, Moroccan Ambassador to Great Britain on a disaster in Agadir; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; John Colville on the...
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Jul 1953 - Dec 1964
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence N - Z., 20 Jan 1940 - 07 Jan 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/142
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Correspondents include: Sir Jooda Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, Maharaja of Nepal, on WSC's illness and his own abdication (2); Basil Neven- Spence; Hubert Pierlot [Senator of Belgium] on WSC's visit to Belgium; Harold Nicolson on reactions in the army to WSC's loss of the General election, and on WSC's example to new MPs; Dr Berggrav, Bishop of Oslo; George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, on Berggrav's visit; Ridley Pakenham-Walsh [former literary assistant to WSC]; John Winant [United States...
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20 Jan 1940 - 07 Jan 1946
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence P - R., 03 Aug 1946 - 28 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/175
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Correspondents include: Sir Bernard Paget (2); Ridley Pakenham-Walsh [former literary assistant to WSC], thanking him for gifts of books (5); Alba Paynter; Sir Richard Pim (2); Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (4); Odette Pol Roger (3); 1st Lord Portal [of Hungerford] (2); Commodore George [Gordon] Allen; Sir Hugh Protheroe-Smith; Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] on "George Mansfelt", Prince Frederick of Prussia [later parts of Germany and Poland] (2); Prince Frederick of...
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03 Aug 1946 - 28 Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence R., 07 Feb 1946 - 02 Jul 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/154
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Correspondents include: Frank Ramsay on his brother Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay [Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force] (3); Clement Attlee, [Prime Minister] on Ramsay, and the memorial for Franklin Roosevelt (3); Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and former Principal Private Secretary to WSC] (8) on subjects including an honour for Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay; J Arthur Rank on films for WSC (2); Mary Stocks, Principal, Westfield College, University...
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07 Feb 1946 - 02 Jul 1949
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Ros - Ry., 01 Apr 1946 - 28 Aug 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/197
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Correspondents include: Alan Hodge, Joint Editor, History Today, on WSC writing the preface to a paper by 5th Lord Rosebery (3); 6th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord Dalmeny] on his father's papers (7); Lewis Rosenstiel on subjects including gifts of cigars and whisky for WSC (11); Bernard Baruch; 2nd Lord Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth, Chairman, Daily Mail] on subjects including WSC's retirement (5); Anthony de Rothschild; John Graham [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign...
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01 Apr 1946 - 28 Aug 1958
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Sa., 28 Apr 1948 - 12 Oct 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/198
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Correspondents include: Emir Zeid [Iraqi Ambassador to Britain]; [? Nourias Said, Prime Minister of Iraq]; 2nd Lord St Aldwyn [earlier Lord Quenington]; "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Leader of the House of Lords and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, on subjects including Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Salisbury himself being unable to continue at the Commonwealth Relations Office, the de-nationalization of steel, appointing a deputy Foreign...
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28 Apr 1948 - 12 Oct 1959
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Open except folios 14-16 which are closed under S37(1), S40 and S41(1) of the Freedom of Information Act on advice from the Cabinet Office. Review 2027.
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Sa - Sk., 06 Apr 1946 - 26 Oct 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/155
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Correspondents include: F Heiser, Principal, St Aidan's College, Birkenhead [Liverpool]; Sir Edward Bridges [Permanent Secretary, Treasury] on WSC's salary; Frank Salisbury on his portrait of WSC; CSC; "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne] on subjects including the death of his father (5); Sir Andrew Salter, asking for WSC's opinion on his book ["Personality in Politics"] and on the death of former United States Ambassador to Britain, John Winant (3); 1st Lord Samuel,...
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06 Apr 1946 - 26 Oct 1948
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Sm - Sz., 04 Mar 1946 - 08 Jul 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/156
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Correspondents include: Sir Waldron Smithers, MP for Orpington [Kent] (2); Charles Smyth, Canon of Westminster [London]; John Snyder, United States Secretary of the Treasury; Bernard Baruch; Arthur Soames on subjects including the birth of [Nicholas Soames] and gifts to WSC (7); 1st Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham, Chairman, Assistance Board]; 1st Lord Southborough [earlier Sir Francis Hopwood] (2); Sir Archibald Southby, [MP for Epsom, Surrey] on giving up his seat (3); 1st Lord...
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04 Mar 1946 - 08 Jul 1949
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with and on General George Marshall., 06 Nov 1943 - 03 Dec 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/144
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Correspondents include: General George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, on subjects including enemy tapping of telephone calls between WSC and Franklin Roosevelt [former President of the United States], the difficulties of his office, China, gifts from WSC, references to himself in ["The Second World War"] and tributes to WSC on his retirement (16); John Winant, United States Ambassador to Britain, on telephone tapping; "Pug", 1st Lord Ismay, [former Chief of Staff to WSC] on the...
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06 Nov 1943 - 03 Dec 1958
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Bernard Baruch., 06 Oct 1945 - 06 Jul 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/210A-B
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Correspondence between WSC and Baruch on subjects including: relations between the West and the Soviet Union; growing isolationism and deficit finance in the United States; the Soviet Union's resources; British nationalization; tributes to Baruch; the coronation; the need to complete NATO and a political settlement in Europe at the Bermuda Conference (1953); nuclear warfare; the export of gold by the Soviet Union; the West's attitude to Eastern Europe; the effect of Konrad Adenauer's...
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06 Oct 1945 - 06 Jul 1956
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with President Eisenhower., 04 Feb 1952 - 22 Aug 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/217
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Correspondence between WSC and Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States, on subjects including the 4-Power Summit at Geneva, American foreign policy, particularly on the Far East, former relations between Eisenhower and WSC, the declassification of war records, the defence of Formosa [later Taiwan], a medallion for WSC's 81st birthday, Western unity, Eisenhower's health, his relations with Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], atomic...
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04 Feb 1952 - 22 Aug 1959
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with President Truman., 29 Jan 1946 - 01 May 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/158
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Letters from Harry S Truman, President of the United States, on subjects including his hopes for avoiding a third world war, seeing Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp, later Sarah, Lady Audley] in the Philadelphia Story, his own chances for re-election, the threat of Communism and dealing with the Soviet Union (10).Other correspondents include: CSC; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Joint Director, Conservative Research Department]; Alexander Spearman on...
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29 Jan 1946 - 01 May 1950
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Public and Political: General: Various Papers., 08 Mar 1939 - Jun 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/369
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Papers and memoranda on various subjects, including: memorandum by the Friends of Europe Information Service on "The Hitler Promises which a British Prime Minister Believed", and a Friends of Europe monthly survey of German publications, June 1939; extract from "Mein Kampf" published in l'Europe Nouvelle on Hitler's tactics for making demands against other nations; figures for the Government vote in [?] 1939 by-elections; bulletins of the Colonial League on subjects including German colonial...
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08 Mar 1939 - Jun 1939
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Public and Political: General: various papers. [most date from 1943]., Jan 1939 - Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/462
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Includes: cutting from the Daily Telegraph on a broadcast by President [Franklin] Roosevelt on ?13 February 1943 on matters including the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers and the situation in North Africa; list of members of the Other Club; copies of poem by [Arthur] Weber-Brown on WSC and Roosevelt; extract from a lecture given by WSC to the Royal United Services Institution on 17 April 1901 on the war in South Africa; cutting from the St Louis Post-Dispatch [United States] on the...
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Jan 1939 - Dec 1943
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Canada: Invitations., 28 Dec 1945 - 07 May 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/223
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Correspondents on invitations for WSC's proposed visit to Canada include: Sir Harold Boulton; [Arthur] Hugh Molson; Frank Clarke, on subjects including George Marshall becoming [United States Secretary of State], Bernard Baruch's resignation from the Atomic Energy Commission, the political outlook in the United States, and keeping WSC in touch with the United States (8); George Drew, Prime Minister of Ontario province, on WSC receiving an honorary degree from the University of Toronto, and...
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28 Dec 1945 - 07 May 1951
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Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: United States., Feb 1949 - Jun 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/266
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Correspondence on visit to New York, Boston and Washington, 23 Mar-2 Apr 1949.Correspondents include National Press Club, New York (2); the New York Times, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publisher); Sarah Oliver (earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley) (2); Major C B [Bill] Ormerod, British Information Services, New York, enclosing press cuttings on WSC's speech at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, United States), 31 Mar (2); Brigadier-General William L...
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Feb 1949 - Jun 1949
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Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: United States., Dec 1948 - May 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/268
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Visit to New York, Boston and Washington, Mar-Apr 1949 Invitations declined I-Z Correspondents include International Relations Club, Boston University; Kent State University, Ohio; Kiwanis Club of Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, Lotos Club, New York (Captain Harold Auten VC, RNR), with note on the origins of the Club; Massachusetts Historical Society; The Mile High Club, Denver, Colorado; Montreal Board of Trade, Canada; Sir Simon Marks [later Lord Marks of...
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Dec 1948 - May 1949
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Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: United States, Oct 1958 - Jul 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/298
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Correspondence on arrangements for visit to New York and Washington, May 1959. File includes Foreign Office brief for WSC in talking to the President [Dwight D Eisenhower], other members of the American Administration and the press (9pp); drafts of itinerary; correspondence with Lloyds Bank Limited on expenses for the visit (7); correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) on travel arrangements (12); correspondence...
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Oct 1958 - Jul 1959
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Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: United States., Oct 1955 - Jul 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/299
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General public correspondence on visit to Washington and New York, May 1959.File includes: Letters from First Grade children of Locust Valley School, New York, welcoming him to the US (20); correspondence with California Western University, San Diego, invitation to visit (declined); the University of California, Berkley, offering honorary degree (declined); The Society of the Cincinnati, Washington, offering hospitality during visit; the Daughters of the British Empire, New York, dinner...
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Oct 1955 - Jul 1959
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Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: United States., Apr 1959 - May 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/300
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Press cuttings on WSC's visit to New York and Washington, May 1959, mainly on meetings with President Dwight D Eisenhower, General George Marshall and John Foster Dulles.File includes Foreign Office telegram from British Embassy, Washington, on press coverage of visit and cuttings from The Washington Post and Times Herald (12), The New York Daily News (3), The New York Herald Tribune (8), The New York Times (6), The Philadelphia Inquirer (4), The New York Post (4), The New York Mirror (8),...
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Apr 1959 - May 1959
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Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: United States and Canada., Jan 1954 - Aug 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/293
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Correspondence on arrangements for visit to Washington and Ottawa, by WSC and Sir Anthony Eden (later Lord Avon), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, June 1954.File includes official notes on administrative arrangements (14pp); WSC's wine account from return journey aboard the RMS "Queen Elizabeth" ; letter from Gavin Astor (later 2nd Lord Astor of Hever) on aboard "Queen Elizabeth"; correspondence on cocktail party aboard "Queen Elizabeth" (22pp); correspondence with Antonio Giraudier...
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Jan 1954 - Aug 1954
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States and Cuba (January - March 1946), invitations declined., 03 Mar 1945 - 07 Mar 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/232
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Correspondents on invitations during WSC's visit to the United States include: Douglas Robey, British Vice-Consul, New York (4); John Gibson, United States Congress; J C Thomson, British Consul, Miami (5); Henry Wallace, United States Secretary of Commerce; George Humphrey, Chairman, United States Business Advisory Council; William Chenery, Publisher, Collier's Magazine; John Bankhead, United States Senate; 2nd Lord Lytton; Clark Eichelberger, Director, American Association for the United...
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03 Mar 1945 - 07 Mar 1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: United States and Jamaica., Dec 1952 - May 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/290
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Correspondence (A-I) on arrangements for WSC's official visit to the USA and subsequent holiday at Prospect, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Jan 1953.File includes papers on voyage to USA aboard RMS "Queen Mary"; drafts of itinerary; correspondence with Bernard Baruch (10); telegram from Sarah Beauchamp (formerly Churchill, later Lady Audley); correspondence about cocktail parties aboard "Queen Mary" and in Jamaica, including guest lists and acceptances from Norman de Bruyne, Lord Iliffe, Vice Admiral...
Dates:
Dec 1952 - May 1953
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States, Canada: invitations., 28 Dec 1946 - 14 Aug 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/254
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Correspondents on invitations for WSC include: Lewis Douglas, United States Ambassador to Britain, on an invitation from the American Meat Institute; Lady Daphne Straight, United States Information Department, Foreign Office; Bernard Baruch; Alfred Sloan junior, [Chairman], General Motors Corporation, inviting WSC to the New York Economic Club; Herman Steinkraus, President, United States Chamber of Commerce; Robert Hutchins, Chancellor, University of Chicago; Sir Felix Pole (2); Edmund Day,...
Dates:
28 Dec 1946 - 14 Aug 1951
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