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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 693 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 29 Sep 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/135/80
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Cutting from the "Toronto Daily Star" [Canada]: report of the speech in Toronto by the Labour MP Alexander Haycock, including marked passage vehemently attacking WSC's policies towards Russia. Sent with CHAR 2/135/79.

Dates: 29 Sep 1924
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] [Nov] [1924]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/136/15-17
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Letter from J R MacDonald (Conservative Club, St James's Street, [London]) to WSC arguing that the growing support for Bolshevism among the working classes in Britain should be combatted by a film showing the evils which that creed has produced in Russia. Sent with CHAR 2/136/14.

Dates: [04] [Nov] [1924]
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), 20 Dec 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/136/110-111
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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.".

Dates: 20 Dec 1924
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), [20] [Dec] [1924]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/136/112-117
Scope and Contents Memorandum [by Leonora de Karatieff, the English wife of a Russian nobleman] describing the general discontent in Russia with the Bolshevik regime and arguing that Britain could easily defeat the Bolsheviks in war and that the people would welcome being under British rule because it would enable Russia's vast economic potential to be realised. Argues that France, Germany, the United States, Japan and the League of Nations could not justifiably protest against Russia becoming a British...
Dates: [20] [Dec] [1924]
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), Apr 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/146/2
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Pamphlet: "Can we trust the Soviets? Being twelve reasons against credits for the Soviet Government." With an introduction by 1st Lord Sydenham. Issued by the Association of British Creditors of Russia.

Dates: Apr 1926
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), c 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/146/3
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Pamphlet: "Justice or plunder: the facts about the Soviet confiscation and dishonesty: Soviet Oil Scandal". Issued by the Association of British Creditors of Russia.

Dates: c 1925
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 Jan 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/141/36
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Printed weekly notes for speakers on policy towards Russia issued by the Independent Labour Party Information Committee. Sent with CHAR 2/141/35.

Dates: 29 Jan 1925
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), [Jan] [1925]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/141/37
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Notes [by Charles Watney] countering the claim by the Independent Labour Party that Russia and tropical Africa offer the best potential for the expansion of British trade. Sent with CHAR 2/141/35.

Dates: [Jan] [1925]
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), [1927]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/152/60-65
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Statement by Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford] on the discovery by the Government of documents showing that the Russian trade delegation has been used as a cover for subversive activities in Britain by Soviet agents. Another copy at CHAR 2/152/66-71. Another version at CHAR 2/152/72-82.

Dates: [1927]
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 Jul 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/206/28-29
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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.

Dates: 17 Jul 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Dec] [1927]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/153/145
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Newspaper cutting: report on the danger of a confrontation between Britain and the Soviet Union in the Middle East.

Dates: [Dec] [1927]
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), c 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/153/158-160
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Letter from "T E S" to ? praising WSC's ["The World Crisis"] and considering the possibility that Russia may soon make an attempt to dominate Europe. Typescript copy.

Dates: c 1927
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 Apr 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/243/64
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Pamphlet - Volkerbund - The Journal of the German Association for League of Nations Questions - on "The Red Army".

Dates: 30 Apr 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/139/2
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Pamphlet: "The destruction of the British Empire as planned by the Communist International". Published by the Russian National Students' Association.

Dates: 1924
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), 16 Nov 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/147/167-173
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Letter from WSC to Sir James Hawkey blaming trade union extremists and Russian Bolshevik influences for the recent severe industrial unrest, including the General Strike, and expressing the Government's determination to defeat these forces. Carbon typescript copy.

Dates: 16 Nov 1926
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), 22 Feb 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/151/47-48
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Letter from Frances Helen Pumfrey (Portway, Wantage, Berkshire) to WSC on: "the Chancellor's Fund"; relations with China, Japan and Russia; the conviction of Peter Wright for libel on William Gladstone, who was godfather to Pumfrey's nephew.

Dates: 22 Feb 1927
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), 07 Mar 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/151/53
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Letter from [WSC] to Robert Boothby [later Lord Boothby] advising him not to take any notice of the accusation by Philip Snowden [later Lord Snowden] that he has been inconsistent in his attitude to Russia as a result of WSC's influence]. Typescript carbon copy.

Dates: 07 Mar 1927
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 Mar 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/151/54
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Letter from Robert Boothby [later Lord Boothby] to WSC explaining that the speech he made [in the House of Commons] on the previous day was part of an anti-Russian campaign he has been fighting in the north of Scotland and denying the charge by Philip Snowden [later Lord Snowden] that he had changed his views on Russia to suit those of WSC in the hope of becoming an under-secretary.

Dates: 04 Mar 1927
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 Jun 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/187/174-176
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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.

Dates: 02 Jun 1932
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), 23 Apr 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/13
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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.

Dates: 23 Apr 1932
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), 20 Jun 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/113/65-67
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Telegram from WSC to Marshal Joseph Stalin explaining the risks of attempting an invasion of Western Europe too soon, and pointing out how Allied success in Tunisia has affected Axis forces in the whole of the Mediterranean, therefore diverting German supplies from the Russian Front. WSC also asks for Stalin's view of the situation on the Russian Front and urges a meeting with himself and [Franklin Roosevelt], President of the United States.

Dates: 20 Jun 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1944 - 31 Jan 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/1
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, January 1944.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]; General Sir Henry Wilson [Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre]; Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the...
Dates: 02 Jan 1944 - 31 Jan 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Feb 1944 - 29 Feb 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/2
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, February 1944. Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Thomas Dugdale [later 1st Lord Crathorne, Chairman of the Conservative Party];...
Dates: 01 Feb 1944 - 29 Feb 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Mar 1944 - 31 Mar 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/3
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, March 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; 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; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant...
Dates: 01 Mar 1944 - 31 Mar 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1944 - 30 Apr 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/4
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; General Sir Bernard Montgomery [General Officer Commanding the Eighth Army]; Director of Military Intelligence [Major-General Francis...
Dates: 01 Apr 1944 - 30 Apr 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open