Soviet Union
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(Untitled), 09 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195A/48
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Letter from Katharine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl [Chairman of the British League for European Freedom] (79 Gloucester Road, SW7 [London]) to WSC marked "private" stating that John ?Stomton is writing to him regarding the terrible things that her committee has been hearing from British people in Poland and other countries under Russian occupation, and referring to a letter by a young officer in Germany which she is enclosing [not attached], and to a statement about the internal conditions in...
Dates:
09 Jun 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), 01 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195A/57-58
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Letter from Katharine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl (79 Gloucester Road, SW7) to WSC referring to an enclosed document about the serious situation in Poland [?probably CHAR 20/195A/37-47] and recounting observations of eye witnesses about mass deportations, the behaviour of the Russian Army, and the strengthening of the defences at Lublin [manuscript].
Dates:
01 Jul 1945
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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), [Jul] 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195A/59
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Letter from Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] to Katharine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl thanking her for her letter of 29 Jun [1945] and stating that the considerations which she raised were given due weight when the British Government decided to recognise the new provisional government of Poland [copy].
Dates:
[Jul] 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), 02 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195A/60
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Letter from Bernard Griffin [Catholic Archbishop of Westminster] (Archbishop's House, Westminster, London, SW1) to WSC writing in support of the letter sent by Katharine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl and expressing concern about what is happening in Poland and the Balkan States [typescript copy].
Dates:
02 Jul 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), 29 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195A/63-65
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Letter from Katharine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl [Chairman of the British League for European Freedom] (79 Gloucester Road, London, SW7) to WSC asking him not to recognise the new government of Poland unless the Russian secret police are withdrawn, commenting on reports of conditions within Poland, and asking that no pressure be sanctioned to make Poles return [Typescript copy].
Dates:
29 Jun 1945
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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 Jun 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258B/235
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Minute [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on sending heavy bombers into Germany to draw German fighters off Russia. [Copy].
Dates:
30 Jun 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 09 Jul 1941 - 10 Jul 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/248-250
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Series of minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. the "New Aircraft Programme" and a possible shortage in heavy bombers; 2. attaching a draft of a note to the Minister of Aircraft Production [John Moore-Brabazon, later 1st Lord Brabazon of Tara] on the lack of increase in aircraft output; 3. the size of the Army, referring to "W.P. (G) (41) 63"; 4. giving the Russians specifications for the sticky bomb; 5. increased imports...
Dates:
09 Jul 1941 - 10 Jul 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 16 Jul 1941 - 23 Jul 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/257-262
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Series of minutes from [1st Lord] Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. a shortfall in production of Vickers 0.5 inch ammunition, attaching a draft minute to [1st] Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken, Minister of Supply] with WSC's annotation in typescript; 2. burning crops with "razzles" [?bombs]; 3. the number of German aircraft operating and their losses; 4. German oil stocks and synthetic plant; 5. attaching a draft minute on factories...
Dates:
16 Jul 1941 - 23 Jul 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 15 Aug 1941 - 20 Aug 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/272-278
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Series of minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. shipping from the United States to the Red Sea; 2. anti-tank bombs; 3. "Mutton" and "A.I." squadrons; 4. a paper by [1st] Lord Weir [Director-General of Explosives, Ministry of Supply] on controlling the requirements of the Services; 5. attaching a draft note to Secretary of State for Air [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso] on equipping aerodromes with blind...
Dates:
15 Aug 1941 - 20 Aug 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 20 Aug 1941 - 29 Aug 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/279-289
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Series of minutes [mainly from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant to WSC] on subjects including: 1. attaching a draft letter to [1st] Lord Weir [Director-General of Explosives, Ministry of Supply] on production and industrial policy; 2. munition and aircraft output; 3. [1st] Lord Hankey's [Paymaster-General] paper on skilled radio personnel; 4. the Jefferis bomb for aerial attacks on tanks, addressed to Secretary of State for Air [Sir Archibald...
Dates:
20 Aug 1941 - 29 Aug 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1941 - 04 Sep 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/290-293
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Series of minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. a joint purchase by the United Kingdom and the United States of rubber for the Soviet Union; 2. aircraft production; 3. rubber for the Soviet Union; 4. attaching a draft minute to the Minister of Supply [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] on filling Jefferis bombs ("Puff Balls") at the expense of "Sticky" bombs; 5. attaching a draft minute to General [Hastings]...
Dates:
01 Sep 1941 - 04 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/303-318
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Series of minutes from [1st] Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. an improvement in the maximum bomb load; 2. mustard gas bombs; 3. decisions to be taken about munitions and aircraft production, army size, supplying the Soviet Union, and possible theatres of operation, with WSC's reply (13 September); 4. attaching a draft to the First Lord of the Admiralty [A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] and Secretary of State for...
Dates:
10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 17 Mar 1942 - 24 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/55/103-110
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Letter from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] to WSC, on Beaverbrook's past reasons for threatening to resign from the Government, and his views on policy issues towards the Soviet Union, including recognizing their frontiers, increasing supplies of tanks and aircraft to the Soviet Union, and opening a second front; includes notes by John Peck, Edith Watson and Francis Brown [Private Secretaries to WSC], and reports by Reuters on Beaverbrook's reasons for resigning from the...
Dates:
17 Mar 1942 - 24 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 24 Sep 1942 - 08 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/57A/72-79
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Letter from Eric Errington [including transcript] to WSC requesting that bombers be sent to stop the Germans attacking Stalingrad, as food convoys have reached the north of the Soviet Union; with reply from WSC on the impracticability of the mission, and 2 draft replies (1 satirical) from the Chief of Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] and also notes and correspondence from the Air Ministry, John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC] and Lieutenant-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief...
Dates:
24 Sep 1942 - 08 Oct 1942
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(Untitled), 20 Jul 1942 - 07 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/57A/80-83
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Cuttings from the Times reporting a speech by Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later 1st Lord Chandos] on Anglo-Soviet week, the German onslaught against the Soviet Union and the need to do more to help; with letter of complaint from William Gallacher [with transcript]; includes filing note.
Dates:
20 Jul 1942 - 07 Oct 1942
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(Untitled), 02 Sep 1942 - 30 Sep 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/7
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, September 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; Colonel John Bevan [Head of the London Controlling Section]; Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Moore [Vice Chief of the Naval Staff]; Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris [Commander in Chief Bomber...
Dates:
02 Sep 1942 - 30 Sep 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 02 Oct 1942 - 31 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/8
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered by the minutes include:...
Dates:
02 Oct 1942 - 31 Oct 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1942 - 30 Nov 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/9
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, November 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War...
Dates:
01 Nov 1942 - 30 Nov 1942
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/10
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, December 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Director of Movements [War Office, General Noel Holmes]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the minutes include:...
Dates:
01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
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(Untitled), 09 Jan 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68A/48
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Telegram from Stalin to WSC denying official endorsement of Pravda article on relations between the Soviet Union and United States. [See CHAR 20/68A/15 for WSC's telegram].
Dates:
09 Jan 1942
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(Untitled), 23 Feb 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/70/120
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Telegram from WSC to Moscow, Soviet Union, conveying the admiration and gratitude of the peoples of the British Empire on the occasion of the twenty fourth anniversary of the foundation of the Red Army.
Dates:
23 Feb 1942
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(Untitled), 08 Feb 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69B/155
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Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin expressing admiration, gratitude and congratulation on successes of the Soviet Union's armies.
Dates:
08 Feb 1942
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(Untitled), 07 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71A/86
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: comments on the Soviet Union and the importance of not denying her the frontiers she occupied when Germany attacked her; refers in confidence to a possible future effort from Britain to take the weight off the Soviet Union; states that he is keeping Roosevelt informed about India; "The weight of the war is very heavy now, and I must expect it to get steadily worse for some time to come.".
Dates:
07 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 09 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/110
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Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin: informs him that he has sent a message to the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, urging him to approve the signing of an agreement about the frontiers of the Soviet Union; promises that supplies to the Soviet Union shall not be interrupted or delayed; states that Britain is resuming the heavy air offensive upon Germany; comments on encouragement provided by the continued progress of the Soviet armies.
Dates:
09 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 16 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/171
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Telegram from Field Marshal Sir John Dill [Head of British Joint Staff Mission, Washington, United States] to WSC replying to comments by WSC [see CHAR 20/71B/165] on war strategy: comments on the security of Great Britain and the United States, the development of the American Pacific Fleet, the importance of the southern Soviet Union and Middle East theatres, the ineffectiveness of an air offensive against Germany from Britain and the impracticality of a land offensive in Europe; concludes...
Dates:
16 Mar 1942
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