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Found in 1689 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 02 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/222/7
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Telegram from WSC to James Byrnes congratulating him on his appointment as Secretary of State for the United States. [Copy].

Dates: 02 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Mar 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/78/7-8
Scope and Contents Letter from [Sir Michael Henry] Herbert (British Embassy, Washington [United States]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he is sorry that she in unable to visit them although he recommends that she choose another time of year at which to visit as the Senate has adjourned and the President [Theodore Roosevelt], whom he describes as "splendid", has gone on a speaking tour. He also discusses his visitors and reports that Minnie Paget has discovered "several Israelite...
Dates: 21 Mar 1903
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), 04 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/20
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Note by Guy Millard [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign secretary] commenting in detail on the background and circumstances of the visit to the United States by Robert Boothby [Conservative MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine], with particular reference to his undertakings not to criticize the economic policies of the American State Department or the Bretton Woods Agreement and his subsequent letters to the New York Times [typescript].

Dates: 04 Apr 1945
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 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/7-8
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Foreign Office note on Mr Joseph Davies, former United States Ambassador to Moscow [Soviet Union], giving a critical summary of his career to date. Annotated by ?WSC with single spelling correction.

Dates: 25 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/9
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Letter from Commander Charles Thompson [Personal Assistant to the Minister of Defence] to Lieutenant J D Stamm (U.S.N.R.) enclosing copies of photographs taken at Chequers [Buckinghamshire] last Sunday "which Ambassador [Joseph] Davies may care to have" [not attached]. [carbon].

Dates: 29 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/89
Scope and Contents Letter from Captain Cyril Falls (Military Correspondent of the Times) to WSC expressing his "profound anxiety" about the conduct of operations in North-West Europe. He complains about the overall control of the Allied offensive, contrasts this with the success of the German offensive under Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt [battle of the Bulge], and comments critically on leading Allied commanders including General Dwight D Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force Western...
Dates: 21 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/90-92
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Captain Cyril Falls [Military Correspondent of the Times] marked "private and confidential" replying in detail to his letter expressing anxiety about the conduct of operations in North-West Europe. WSC comments on the likely result of the offensive conducted by Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt [battle of the Bulge], expresses astonishment at criticism of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [later 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis, Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre]...
Dates: 31 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/93-94
Scope and Contents Letter from Captain Cyril Falls [Military Correspondent of the Times] to WSC thanking him for his reply to his previous letter, which "written under the influence of disappointment, was probably petulant and unbalanced". He comments on the German offensive [battle of the Bulge], on the respective abilities of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [later 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis, Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre], Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group]...
Dates: 02 Jan 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/95
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Captain Cyril Falls [Military Correspondent of the Times] marked "most secret" thanking him for his letter, commenting on the division of command in North-West Europe between Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] and General Omar Bradley [Commander 12th Army Group, United States Army], expressing preference "to see the Germans fighting catch as catch can with us in the open, rather than our splashing through the mud towards their pill-boxes and...
Dates: 08 Jan 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/107
Scope and Contents Letter from Captain David Gammans [Conservative MP for Hornsey] to Brigadier George Harvie Watt [Prime Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary] informing him that he has just returned from an international conference at Hot Springs, Virginia [United States] and that, at the suggestion of Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] he has put on paper some notes of his impressions of the United States [see CHAR 20/197A/108-110]. Signed...
Dates: 12 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/108-110
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Notes on American public opinion regarding Britain and the Empire based on observations following speeches made in New York and Washington [United States] by Captain David Gammans [Conservative MP for Hornsey]. Typescript.

Dates: Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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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
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), 28 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/73
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 28 Feb 1945
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), 18 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/76-77
Scope and Contents 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
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), 30 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/78
Scope and Contents 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
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), 28 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/81
Scope and Contents 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
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), 03 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/82
Scope and Contents 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
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), 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
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), 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
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), 17 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/87
Scope and Contents 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
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), 18 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/88
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Letter from Fred Salter [Second Secretary, United States Embassy in Great Britain] (1 Grosvenor Square, London, W1) to John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] thanking him for his kind letter of 17 Apr and the enclosed letters expressing sympathy on the death of President Roosevelt, which the Ambassador was glad to see. [Signed typescript on Embassy mourning paper].

Dates: 18 Apr 1945
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), 15 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/89
Scope and Contents Telegram from Marshal Stalin to WSC marked "personal and secret" replying to WSC's message on the occasion of the death of President Roosevelt. States that, "In President Franklin Roosevelt the Soviet people saw a distinguished statesman and a rigid champion of close co-operation between the three States" and that Roosevelt's friendly attitude towards the Soviet Union "will always be most highly valued and remembered by the Soviet people". Expresses his personal feeling of burden on the loss...
Dates: 15 Apr 1945
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), 14 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/91
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "most immediate " and "top secret and personal". WSC thanks Stalin for his message of 7 Apr and expresses hope that the misunderstanding over Crossword [Codename for operation leading to surrender of German forces in Italy] may now be considered at an end. He comments on his distress at the death of President Roosevelt and the importance it places on the link between the two of them. He thanks Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Foreign Minister]...
Dates: 14 Apr 1945
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), 13 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/93
Scope and Contents Telegram from Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to the President of the United States] (Rochester, Minnesota, [United States of America]) to Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken, Lord Privy Seal] marked "routine" and "personal and restricted" stating that President Roosevelt "had such a warm spot in his heart for you", expressing belief that "Britain has lost her staunchest friend and the world its greatest leader", and explaining that he is leaving hospital for a few days to...
Dates: 13 Apr 1945
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), 13 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/94-95
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to King George VI thanking him for his letter and commenting on the implications of the death of President Roosevelt, "Ties have been shorn asunder which years had woven". He outlines his reasons for not attending the President's funeral, and adds that "it would be a good thing that President Harry Truman should come over here at about the same time as was proposed by his predecessor". He suggests May for Truman's visit and states that he is making this proposal to Truman and...
Dates: 13 Apr 1945
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.