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Includes details of visits to MS's anti-aircraft battery by CSC and Winston Churchill, reminiscences of CSC's visits to shelters and a copy of a letter from CSC to Churchill on the work of MS's battery, June 1944.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes [former Special Liaison Officer to the King of Belgium], on the attitude of the Belgians and his anxiety about his sons being in action; Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary, on Clementine's idea that middle aged women could register as fire watchers in vulnerable areas.Also includes fire squad instructions and lists of fire watchers for the [?] Cabinet Office, and a later note on when Clementine had fire watching...

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Subjects include: shipbuilding figures; wireless policy; squadrons abroad for trade protection; totals of ships sunk by German submarines and losses among German and Turkish submarines; the speed and armaments of German submarines; the need to simplify correspondence between the Admiralty and the dockyards; possible zeppelin attacks on London; steady pressure strategy.

Scope and Contents Letters to Clementine from: Queen Elizabeth, thanking Clementine for a book on Walter Sickert and commenting on the strength and vigour of Churchill's broadcast from the United States, December 1941; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] on his visit to Chequers [Buckinghamshire], August 1941 and being with Churchill when he made his broadcast on the Atlantic Charter; [William] Averell Harriman [Special Representative of President Franklin Roosevelt] on a visit to Chequers, c...

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Includes: Ministry of Home Security papers on design of air raid shelters; Home Office Civil Defence Research Committee minutes; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research papers on alternative construction methods; papers on bombing trials for shelters and on protection for factories and offices; road research reports; data on damage to reinforced concrete and steel framed buildings; report on damage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki [Japan].