Soviet Union
Found in 669 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 22 Dec 1941
Telegram from Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] (Moscow [Soviet Union]) to WSC summarising meetings with Stalin.
(Untitled), 23 Dec 1941
Telegrams from Government of Australia to WSC requesting drafts of proposed treaties discussed with Stalin during Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]'s visit to Moscow [Soviet Union]; fears separate Soviet peace settlement if Allies do not agree to post-war frontier proposals.
(Untitled), 24 Aug 1941
(Untitled), 28 Aug 1941
Telegram from WSC to Stalin on subjects including: the provision of fighter aircraft, Tomahawks and Hurricanes; Persian [Iranian] resistance has ended enabling development of railway for supplies; Anglo-Soviet resistance to Japan.
(Untitled), 30 Aug 1941
Telegram from WSC to Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand [Arthur Fadden and Peter Fraser] on favourable situation in Japan following declaration from United States on Pacific, and Soviet commitment.
(Untitled), 25 Sep 1939
Printed paper by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] for the War Cabinet entitled "Notes on the General Situation", mostly with regard to Russia, Turkey and the war in Eastern Europe.
(Untitled), 15 Aug 1940
(Untitled), 19 Sep 1940
(Untitled), 15 Oct 1941
Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Hankey [Paymaster-General] informing him that following changes in the Soviet Union, Hankey's Allied Supply Committee will be replaced by a committee under 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] for the Co-ordination of Allied Supplies.
(Untitled), 12 Jul 1942
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1942
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and secret" regarding the northern shipping convoys to the Soviet Union: reports on the heavy losses sustained by PQ 17 [June convoy]; advises against running PQ 18 [July convoy]; comments on the future prospects of supplying Russia by this northern route; states that allied shipping losses for week ending July 13 were 400,000 tons, " a rate unexampled in either this war or the last".
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1942
(Untitled), 16 Jun 1942
Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin marked "immediate, personal and secret" suggesting that the Germans may be contemplating an attack on Murmansk [Soviet Union], asking for his opinion on joint operations in the area and asking whether Stalin wishes for the six squadrons of the RAF mentioned in his aide-memoire to Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs].
(Untitled), 20 Jun 1942
Telegram from Foreign Office to Moscow reciting the text of a message of support from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin, to be conveyed to Stalin on 22 June on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Soviet Union entering the war.
(Untitled), 20 Jun 1942
Telegram from Premier Joseph Stalin to WSC marked "personal and secret" commenting on the desirability of joint operations to repel a German invasion of the Soviet Union from northern Norway and Finland, asking about participation by British naval and land forces, and inquiring when the six British squadrons will arrive in the Murmansk [Soviet Union] area.
(Untitled), 09 May 1942
Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin regarding convoys to the Soviet Union: outlines difficulties of sailing convoys to the Soviet Union; lists measures required from the Soviet Union to help protect convoys; states that he will be making the broadcast warning of British retaliation to German gas attacks upon Soviet Armies tomorrow.
(Untitled), 27 May 1942
Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin thanking him for meeting "our difficulties in the Treaty" [Treaty of Alliance between the Soviet Union and Britain], expressing pleasure that Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs] will be returning to London, commenting on the progress of a convoy to the Soviet Union and conveying his sincere good wishes and confidence of victory. Initialled.
(Untitled), 27 May 1942
(Untitled), 28 May 1942
Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, with minutes of a meeting held at 10 Downing Street at 11am on Friday 22 May between representatives of the British Government and Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Commissar for Foreign] and his advisers concerning the opening of a second front in Europe by Britain and the United States.
(Untitled), 01 Jun 1942
(Untitled), 07 Jun 1942
(Untitled), 11 Jun 1942
(Untitled), 18 Oct 1942
Telegram from WSC to Premier Stalin marked "immediate" and "most secret and personal" referring to a previous telegram and stating that he should have added that the 150 Spitfires are all armed with 2 cannons and 4 machine guns.
(Untitled), 20 Oct 1942
Telegram from Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "most secret and personal" reporting observations made during his recent visit to Baghdad [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf Ports on the difficulties of getting aid to Russia and on the administrative problems facing the new Persia [now Iran] / Iraq Command.