Yugoslavia
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:
File
"Approach March": annotated draft extracts and correspondence on JA's experiences in the Balkans, 1939-40, 1939-08 - 1967-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/29
Scope and Contents
Mainly letters from JA to Leo Amery from Belgrade [Yugoslavia] and also Istanbul [Turkey], August 1939-July 1940, mainly on his work as a press attaché in Belgrade. Also includes a letter from Sir Ronald Campbell, British Minister at Belgrade to Leo Amery on JA's arrival at his embassy, letters from [Benedict] Humphrey Sumner, Balliol College, University of Oxford, on JA's future (2), and a tribute to 1st Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness].
Dates:
1939-08 - 1967-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter 12, "Attaché: Belgrade", 1967-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/21
Scope and Contents
Was previously labelled as "Press attaché".
Dates:
1967-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter 13, "A Balkan Education", 1967-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/22
Scope and Contents
Was previously labelled as "Introduction to Yugoslav politics".
Dates:
1967-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter 16, "A Coup d'Etat?", 1967-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/24
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This section of the archive includes some source material, notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs of JA's autobiography. It was written in the 1960s (though not published until 1973), after JA lost first his ministerial office and then his Parliamentary seat after the General Elections of 1964 and 1966. Asked by the publishers Hutchinson Limited to write his political memoirs, JA preferred instead to write about his earlier career (being unable to write about sensitive recent events, and not...
Dates:
1967-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
"Approach March": annotated draft of chapters 24 and 26, "Picking up the Bits" and "Mihailovitch and Tito", 1967-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/30
Scope and Contents
Chapter 26 was previously labelled as "Yugoslav might have been".
Dates:
1967-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
"Approach March": annotated typescript of Book III, "With Cloak and Dagger", chapters 12-16, 1970-03 - 1971-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/68
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This section of the archive includes some source material, notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs of JA's autobiography. It was written in the 1960s (though not published until 1973), after JA lost first his ministerial office and then his Parliamentary seat after the General Elections of 1964 and 1966. Asked by the publishers Hutchinson Limited to write his political memoirs, JA preferred instead to write about his earlier career (being unable to write about sensitive recent events, and not...
Dates:
1970-03 - 1971-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Articles, 1943-02 - 1949-11
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/1
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Conservatism and the future [by Leo Amery, see AMEL 1/6/45]; resistance by the partisans in Yugoslavia, 1943 (from various news reports); James Burnham's book "The Managerial Revolution"; Winston Churchill's biography of his father, "Lord Randolph Churchill"; JA's visit to the Eastern Vilayets of Turkey, 1948 [see AMEJ 4/1/3], including extracts from JA's diary; Canada's future as part of the Commonwealth or in closer union with the United States; Cold War tensions with the...
Dates:
1943-02 - 1949-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Articles and related correspondence, 1948-03 - 1950-01
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/6
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the situation in Greece; the threat of war from the Soviet Union; Britain, Greece and the Balkans; Fitzroy Maclean's book "Eastern Approaches"; JA's visit to the Eastern Vilayets of Turkey, 1948 [see AMEJ 4/1/3 and 7/1/1]; the situation in the Middle East; impressions from JA's tour of Canada, 1949; Greece and her neighbours in the Balkans; resistance warfare; Imperial Preference and the Conservative Party; the Communist danger to the Commonwealth and Empire;...
Dates:
1948-03 - 1950-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Balkan exiles, 1941-05 - 1953-03
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/64
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly on individual cases of Yugoslav refugees looking for employment, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada, and earlier Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre] on handing over Yugoslav generals accused of collaboration to the current Government of Yugoslavia, and the repatriation of Yugoslavs who had fought for Germany; Christopher Mayhew, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the Yugoslav...
Dates:
1941-05 - 1953-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Balkans: miscellaneous, 1941-06 - 1949-11
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/46
Scope and Contents
General papers and correspondence on Balkan affairs, including: copy of Hansard with a debate on the Balkans, 1949, with a Conservative Research Department paper on Greece and Yugoslavia and a record of meetings on policy towards Yugoslavia, with JA, Fitzroy Maclean [former commander of the military mission to the Yugoslav partisans], Charles Mott-Radclyffe, Henry Hopkinson [joint director of the Conservative Research Department, later 1st Lord Colyton] and others; correspondence with JA's...
Dates:
1941-06 - 1949-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Broadcasts, 1931-11 - 1952-07
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/17
Scope and Contents
Texts of broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: Fairbridge Farm Schools in Australia; Empire defence; the economics of Empire; the 1935 Peace Ballot; the Empire and world peace; the politician versus the businessman; the Jewish settlement in Palestine; the Empire Producers Organisation; the way of peace; Germany's debt to European civilisation; tributes to Yugoslavia; why Italy should not become a German ally; the Balkans; commentaries on the war (1940, including Norway and Germany's...
Dates:
1931-11 - 1952-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - F, 1941-01 - 1941-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/32
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] on criticism of convoy commodores and of the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (3); the Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on concerns about the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (2); Sir Walford Selby [former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna] on uniting the anti-Nazi elements in Austria (2); 1st Lord Sankey; Sir John Anderson [Lord President of the Council,...
Dates:
1941-01 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence and logbook, 1938-01-19 - 1939-07-05
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCKR 1/11
Scope and Contents
Includes:
HAP's logbook as Naval Attaché at Athens [Greece], Ankara [Turkey], Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia], with letter to HAP from N Christitch, and HAP letters to JP.
2 letters from Admiral of the Fleet Sir [Alfred] Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff] to HAP.
HAP's logbook as Naval Attaché at Athens [Greece], Ankara [Turkey], Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia], with letter to HAP from N Christitch, and HAP letters to JP.
2 letters from Admiral of the Fleet Sir [Alfred] Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff] to HAP.
Dates:
1938-01-19 - 1939-07-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence K - Z, 1942-01 - 1943-04
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/35
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Marina, Duchess of Kent, thanking LSA for his sympathy [on the death of George, Duke of Kent]; 1st Lord Lang on Mohandas Gandhi's irresponsibility; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Viceroy of India, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on the actions of Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps [during his mission to the Indian Congress], Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan [Agent-General to Government of India in China] and on the question of his own successor (3); Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later 1st...
Dates:
1942-01 - 1943-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Julian Amery, 1942-10 - 1955-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/1/88
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: LSA's scheme for a new constitution in Cyprus; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; the Suez Group and Government arguments for withdrawing British troops from the Canal Zone [Egypt]; the hydrogen bomb debate; Julian Amery's biography of Joseph Chamberlain; Julian Amery's experiences at Strasbourg [France] as a delegate to the Consultative Assembly of Council of Europe; LSA's wish to stand as MP for Oxford; equipping mountain troops with skis.
Also includes:...
Dates:
1942-10 - 1955-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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European questions: personal minutes, 1972-12 - 1974-02
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/9/20
Scope and Contents
Minutes on subjects including: the energy crisis; Concorde; relations between Europe and the United States; oil supplies and European foreign policy; a meeting with Egon Bahr; JA's visit to Yugoslavia and meeting with President Josip Tito; progress towards European Monetary Union; European policy on the Mediterranean.
Dates:
1972-12 - 1974-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
Sub-Series
Information Papers on Other Countries, 1939-08 - 1945-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NERI 6/1
Scope and Contents
For broadcasts to Albania, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Rumania, Spain, Yugoslavia
Dates:
1939-08 - 1945-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Information Papers on Other Countries, 1939 - 1945
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NERI 6/11
Scope and Contents
Yugoslavia
Dates:
1939 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Itineraries: Yugoslavia, 1974-01 - 1974-05
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/32
Scope and Contents
Papers from CS's visit to Yugoslavia for trade talks, April-May 1974, including: itinerary and programmes; press release; briefing notes; draft speech notes for CS; press cuttings; correspondence on arrangements and press coverage of the visit.
Dates:
1974-01 - 1974-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Jugoslavia, 1948
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/418
Scope and Contents
Booklets on Communism in Jugoslavia
Dates:
1948
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of two files which are still closed, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lecture to the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre [Paris, France], 1959
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/32
Scope and Contents
Draft lecture notes on Resistance movements in time of war, particularly relating to JA's own experiences in Yugoslavia.
Dates:
1959
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Letters from JA to Leo Amery, 1941-05 - 1941-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 3/1/7
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the military and political situation in the Middle East, particularly Syria; contacts with Yugoslav Government refugees; the need for improved command structure in Cairo [Egypt] to oversee the different services; future tensions between the Arabs and Jews; escorting a party of Yugoslavs back to Montenegro; the need to provide more support for the Yugoslavs.
Dates:
1941-05 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
Letters from JA to Leo Amery, 1942-01 - 1948-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 3/1/8
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: JA's idea for Balkan Federation; JA's frustration with his health and trying to find a new posting; the Cairo Conference, Nov 1943; trying to find a Parliamentary seat in partnership with Randolph Churchill; a visit to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia; the situation in Yugoslavia; joining the British mission in Albania; serving on the staff of General Carton de Wiart, Winston Churchill's personal representative with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, in China; trying to find a...
Dates:
1942-01 - 1948-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
Letters from John Julius to Lady Diana from Beirut, 1957-06 - 1957-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/2/25
Scope and Contents
Letters sent while John Julius was on his way from Belgrade to take up his new post as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Beirut [Lebanon] and from Beirut itself, on subjects including: disapproval of the new British Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Sir John Nicholls and his wife; the visit to Belgrade by Sir Laurence Olivier and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company, with their production of Titus Andronicus. Also includes a postcard from Vivien Leigh.
Dates:
1957-06 - 1957-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letters from John Julius to Lady Diana from Belgrade, 1955-01 - 1955-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/2/22
Scope and Contents
Letters sent while John Julius was working as Third Secretary at the British Embassy in Belgrade, on subjects including the visit to Yugoslavia by Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union, June 1955.
Dates:
1955-01 - 1955-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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