Soviet Union
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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/37/21
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Telegram from WSC to Sir Stafford Cripps [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] (Moscow), for personal delivery to Marshal Stalin, informing Stalin that Germany had been transferring Panzer Divisions from Romania to Southern Poland, but has stopped due to the Serbian revolt [information learned from Enigma decrypts].
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03 Apr 1941
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(Untitled), 05 Apr 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/37/34
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Telegram [from WSC] to [Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] (Moscow) on the postponement of German plans to attack the Soviet Union, suggesting Marshal Stalin should begin defensive preparations and court allies.
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05 Apr 1941
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(Untitled), 16 May 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/29A/71-74
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Letter from Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] to [Joseph] Saville Garner [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs] enclosing Prime Minister's Personal Telegram T.183 to General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] discussing: the offensive in the Western Desert by General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East], and possible action in North Africa and Suez [Egypt]; the western Mediterranean and Gibraltar; the Battle of the Atlantic, and...
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16 May 1941
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(Untitled), 14 May 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/29A/75-78
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Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC on probable German fronts for the summer: he believes Hitler will attack Britain before Ukraine or Caucasus [Soviet Union]; to invade Britain requires prior bombing of ports, aerodromes, munitions and industrial centres; war of attrition in Atlantic and heavy attack on Mediterranean basin. [Copy].
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14 May 1941
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(Untitled), 14 Jul 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/22A/28
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Letter from WSC to General Wladyslaw Sikorski [Prime Minister of Poland and Commander-in-Chief, Polish Army] wishing him success in negotiations with the Soviet Ambassador [to Britain, Ivan Maisky], as a "Polish-Soviet understanding is of immense and urgent importance to the common cause".
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14 Jul 1941
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(Untitled), 29 Jun 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/75-80
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Telegram from WSC to General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on changes in appointments in Middle East, particularly appointment of Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos] as representative of the War Cabinet in the Middle East, and replacement of General Sir Archibald Wavell by General Sir Claude Auchinleck as Commander-in Chief, Middle East. He also comments on The German offensive in Russia, and the situation in the Middle East; with list of tank and air reinforcements sent to...
Dates:
29 Jun 1941
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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), 28 Jun 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/86
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Telegram from United Kingdom High Commissioner in South Africa [4th Lord Harlech, earlier William Ormsby-Gore] to WSC commenting on the implications of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union and the consequent postponement of the attack on Britain, And suggesting decisive action in the Middle East. [It is unclear whether this message is from Harlech, or whether Harlech is reciting a message from General Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa.].
Dates:
28 Jun 1941
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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), 03 Jul 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/103-104
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Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC approving removal of General Sir Archibald Wavell from office as Commander-in-Chief, Middle East and commenting on defects of the administrative machine in Cairo [Egypt]. He comments on the Middle East, his plans to visit Cairo, the improvement in the Allied cause brought about by the German attack on the Soviet Union, and suggests that the flight of Rudolph Hess might indicate "something rotten inside the German...
Dates:
03 Jul 1941
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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), 07 Jul 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/115
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Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin supporting Soviet resistance to German invasion, referring to British air and naval operations against Germany, commenting on the possibility of a British operation in the Arctic, and welcoming the arrival of the Russian Military Mission. "We have only got to go on fighting to beat the life out of these villains.".
Dates:
07 Jul 1941
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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), 09 Jul 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/126
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Telegram from WSC to Sir Stafford Cripps [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] regarding the proposed Anglo-Russian declaration. He recites text of message for Marshal Stalin supporting declaration and informing Stalin that he is consulting Dominions. He recites proposed text of declaration for Cripps, and states that this is not to be communicated to Stalin yet.
Dates:
09 Jul 1941
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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), 21 Jul 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/41/24-25
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Telegram from Stalin to WSC on Anglo-Soviet solidarity following German aggression towards the Soviet Union; with reply from WSC promising help via the North, as allowed by limitations of resource and geography.
Dates:
21 Jul 1941
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(Untitled), 25 Jul 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/41/47-48
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Telegram from WSC to Stalin promising to send 200 Tomahawk Fighter planes and 2 - 3 million pairs of ankle boots.
Dates:
25 Jul 1941
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(Untitled), 15 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/22B/187-188
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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.
Dates:
15 Oct 1941
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(Untitled), 10 Apr 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/175/30-32
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Letter from Dr L Berczeller (Hotel Metropole, [London]) to [Frank Morrish] explaining why he believes that the food supply situation in the Soviet Union is serious enough to bring down the government there. Sent with CHAR 2/175/27.
Dates:
10 Apr 1930
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(Untitled), 14 Aug 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183/48,50-51
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Pages from the "Patriot" including marked article citing an article in the "Listener" recommending holidays in Soviet Union as evidence of the socialist tendencies of the BBC.
Dates:
14 Aug 1930
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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), 07 Nov 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183/49
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Reprint from the "Patriot": hostile potted biography of the Labour MP Edward Wise describing his links with the Soviet Union.
Dates:
07 Nov 1929
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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), 25 Nov 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183/54-56
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Pages from the "Patriot" including marked article criticising the appointment of Ethel Snowden [later Lady Snowden] to the Council of the BBC because of her pacifist and pro-Soviet views.
Dates:
25 Nov 1926
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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), 02 Dec 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183/57-59
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Pages from the "Patriot" including marked article criticising the appointment of Ethel Snowden [later Lady Snowden] to the Council of the BBC because of her pacifist and pro-Soviet views.
Dates:
02 Dec 1926
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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), 06 Mar 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183/68
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Page from the "Patriot" including marked article criticising Harold Nicolson for playing down the extent of religious persecution in the Soviet Union in a recent broadcast.
Dates:
06 Mar 1930
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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), 23 Sep 1932 - 26 Sep 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/185/35-59
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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.
Dates:
23 Sep 1932 - 26 Sep 1932
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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), [Sep] [1932]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/185/60-62
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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.
Dates:
[Sep] [1932]
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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), 25 Sep 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/15/7
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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.
Dates:
25 Sep 1939
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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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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: copy of a letter from [11th] Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr, British Ambassador to the United States], War Cabinet papers by WSC, and printed telegrams and letters exchanged between WSC and President [Franklin] Roosevelt.
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(Untitled), 15 Aug 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/16/6-9
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"Weekly Intelligence Commentary no. 52" from the War Office General Staff. Covers 8 to 15 August 1940 and divided into sections on: 1. Germany: a) information on the invasion of the United Kingdom; b) Cap Gris Nez area [France]; c) distribution of German divisions; 2. Italy and Italian possessions; 3. Spain; 4. Balkan States and Turkey: a) Romania; b) Bulgaria; c) Greece; d) Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; e)...
Dates:
15 Aug 1940
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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), 19 Sep 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/16/20-24
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"Weekly Intelligence Commentary no. 57" from the War Office General Staff. Covers 12 to 19 September 1940 and divided into sections on: 1. Germany: a) invasion of the United Kingdom; b) re-organisation of the German Army; c) artificial smoke screen in invasion; d) the attack on Waalhaven, Rotterdam [Netherlands] (from a German Air Force Journal); e) mobile troops in the Battle of France (from the German press); f) distribution of German divisions; 2. Italy and Italian possessions; 3. Balkan...
Dates:
19 Sep 1940
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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), 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
Conditions Governing Access:
Open