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Printed, manuscript and annotated draft articles by LSA for publications including the Times, British Economic Association and Manchester Guardian, on subjects including: Turkey; the situation in Macedonia [later North Macedonia]; the internal crisis in Austria-Hungary; Serbia; events in Syria; Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria; Austro-Hungarian financial relations; Bulgaria.

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Vassits informs Wace of his recent excavations at Vinča: he attempts to establish a chronology of that culture relative to Greece from the Neolithic to the first century BCE and offers conclusions about the pottery’s connection to Thessaly in Greece. He records the findings of other archaeologists that link this same culture to Crete and Bulgaria and hopes to collaborate with Wace in Macedonia.

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Subjects include: LSA's posting to the Balkans; his time in Athens [Greece], Serbia and Romania, collecting information on the Danube; the importance of Greek support to the success of the Dardanelles expedition; rumours of Bulgaria's entry into the war; doubts as to the intentions of Russia; the effect of Italy's entry into the war; LSA's feeling that he would soon be returning to political work.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: LSA's view of Sir Henry Bax-Ironside [Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria]; the muddle made of diplomacy between Serbia and Bulgaria; LSA's surprise that Winston Churchill was staying in the British Government in a lower position [as Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster], following his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty; LSA's view of his own journalistic skills, compared with those of John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; the political stalemate in the Balkans;...

Scope and Contents Memoranda, reports and notes on LSA's intelligence work while in the Balkans, including: notes on the Serbian army, railways, navigable rivers and roads, and on Austrian positions and Russian naval forces in the area; journal kept by LSA during his time in the Balkans; maps, notes and navigation information on the river Danube; notes on relations with Greece; annotated print of LSA's military report on Serbia; telegrams and letters from LSA to [? Major-General Charles Callwell, Director of...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.