Soviet Union
Found in 693 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 10 Oct 1946
Copy of a letter from WSC to Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, marked "personal and private" thanking him for his draft speech on the Roosevelt Memorial Bill; promising to write again about a publication; and discussing demobilisation figures and the possibility of war with the Soviet Union, noting that the Russians are hampered by two reasons "their virtue and self restraint. The second, the possession by the United States of the Atomic bomb."Carbon typescript signed with initials.
(Untitled), 06 Oct 1946
(Untitled), 03 Apr 1936
Letter from Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to Britain to WSC. Sending copy of speech, and stating that the Soviet attitude to the international position was fully dealt with in the latter half. Also thanks for lunch.
(Untitled), 17 Apr 1936
Letter from Henry, 2nd Lord Melchett, Mulberry House, Smith Square, London SW1 to WSC, thanks for forwarding letter from Major T G Tulloch. Asking for permission to show it to Zionist leaders, and to quote from it.
(Untitled), 17 Apr 1936
Letter from Lord Cranborne, (later 5th Lord Salisbury), Cranborne, Salisbury, to WSC, regretting that WSC found his comments on speech unfair. Stating that he felt that WSC's policy of not taking the lead against Italian aggression was not practical, that Britain was by far the greatest nation in the League of Nations, and was bound to take a prominent part, and that the Cabinet had taken the only possible course of action under difficult circumstances.
(Untitled), 15 Feb 1936
Letter from Ivan Maisky, Soviet Union Ambassador to Britain to WSC, on invitation for him to see special showing of film of the Red Army Manoeuvres.
(Untitled), 11 May 1936
(Untitled), 23 Sep 1932 - 26 Sep 1932
French newspaper cuttings (one in English) on WSC's interview to the Havas news agency on disarmament and the position of Germany, France and the Soviet Union in European security. Sent with CHAR 2/185/34.
(Untitled), [Sep] [1932]
Transcript of an interview given by WSC to the Havas news agency on disarmament and the position of Germany, France and the Soviet Union in European security. Annotated typescript. Other copies at CHAR 2/185/64-66, CHAR 2/185/67-69 and CHAR 2/185/70-72.
(Untitled), 02 Jun 1932
Letter from Katharine, Duchess of Atholl (98 Elm Park Gardens, [London]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/187/177-188 and arguing that the dumping of exports in Britain by the Soviet Union is an important cause of the fall of wholesale commodity prices and that it would be in the interests of the United States if Britain put an end to this dumping.
(Untitled), 30 Aug 1924
Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Lord Carson [earlier Sir Edward Carson] on: David Lloyd George's intention of endorsing their letter when it is published; his attitude to the Russian treaty; the important criticism of the treaty in the "Daily News". Carbon copy.
(Untitled), 20 Dec 1924
Letter from Leonora de Karatieff, the English wife of a Russian nobleman (10 Hubert Road, St Julian's Avenue, Newport, Monmouthshire, [Wales]) to [WSC] enclosing CHAR 2/136/112-117, referring to the sufferings of her relations in Russia at the hands of the Bolsheviks and stating that she would be glad if WSC "could devise some means to get rid of the Bolshies.".
(Untitled), [20] [Dec] [1924]
(Untitled), 16 Apr 1936
Letter from Philip Unwin, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., Publishers, Museum Street, London WC1 to WSC, sending copy of book on the Soviet Union "Uncle Give Us Bread" by Arne Strom, a Danish poultry expert, who spent 18 months in the Soviet Union assisting with the organisation of State poultry farms. Asking for his opinion on the book.
(Untitled), 20 Apr 1936
Letter from WSC to George Allen & Unwin Ltd, thanks for gift of book on the Soviet Union "Uncle Give us Bread" by Arne Strom. Stating that he did not wish to comment on it in public, but would like to know if it was a "Bona fide" record, and the present position and occupation of the author [carbon].
(Untitled), 15 Feb 1936
Letter from Desmond Chapman-Huston, Carlton Club, London to WSC, asking for permission to publish extract from Diary of Sir Sidney Low, for 13 Jan 1905, in which Low declined WSC's request to help him finish and revise Life of Lord Randolph Churchill.
(Untitled), 23 Apr 1932
Letter from [WSC] to Major-General Sir Alfred Knox hoping that he is keeping his attention fixed on Russia and noting that Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] has initiated a good debate in the House of Lords. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 17 Jul 1934
Letter from Arthur Cummings, Political Editor, News Chronicle, to WSC, on meeting with Nicolas Mayorski, the newly arrived London correspondent of the Russian newspaper "Pravda". Stating that Mayorski was one of the "ablest, most interesting and broadly intelligent Bolshies" he had met, and that he was particularly interested in meeting WSC, to "tell him why the post-War interventionist policy in Russia failed", attaching Mayorski's business card.
(Untitled), 10 Sep 1924
(Untitled), 23 Sep 1924
(Untitled), 09 Sep 1924
Letter from O Brunstrom (Grand Hotel du Canadel, Paris, [France]) to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan,Altnabraec, Caithness, Scotland) speculating about Boris Savinkov's dealings with the Soviet government and the plans of Sidney Reilly, who in May seemed more concerned with Benito Mussolini than with Russian matters. Sent with CHAR 2/134/130-131.
(Untitled), 17 Sep 1924
Letter from O Brunstrom (Grand Hotel du Canadel, Paris, [France]) to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan, Altnabraec, Caithness, Scotland) giving further reports about Boris Savinkov's dealings with the Soviet government and rejecting Sidney Reilly's theory that Savinkov has been killed. Sent with CHAR 2/134/130-131.
(Untitled), 23 Sep 1924
Letter from N Gwynne Trew (The Spies Petroleum Company Ltd, 62 London Wall, London) to WSC (Chartwell) enclosing CHAR 2/134/138-145 and outlining the commercial objections to the Anglo -Russian treaties.
(Untitled), [Sep] [1924]
"A criticism of the Anglo-Russian treaties" [by N Gwynne Trew of the Spies Petroleum Company Ltd]. Sent with CHAR 2/134/135-137.
(Untitled), 29 Sep 1924
Letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan, Altnabraec, Caithness, [Scotland]) to WSC congratulating him on his Edinburgh speech, complaining of the "defeatist" attitude of the Scottish Conservative press towards the Anglo-Russian treaty, and stressing the need for David Lloyd George to "stick to his guns.".