Foreign policy
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 692 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: War and Air: telegrams on the Russian Civil War., 08 Jan 1920 - 22 Nov 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/55
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Correspondents include: Major-General Herbert Holman [Chief of British Military Mission to South Russia] (13); Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson].Also includes copies of telegrams and notes from WSC those mentioned above and to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War], Prime Minister [David Lloyd George], Lieutenant-General Sir George Milne [Commanded the British Forces at Constantinople, later...
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08 Jan 1920 - 22 Nov 1920
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Official: War and Air: War Cabinet papers., 12 Jan 1919 - 29 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/19
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Includes papers and memoranda prepared by: WSC, General Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of Imperial General Staff; Lieutenant-General Sir Hubert Gough [Chief Allied Mission Baltic]; Major-General Herbert Holman, Chief of British Military Mission to South Russia; Major-General Neill Malcolm [British Military Mission, Berlin, Germany]; Lieutenant-General Sir George Milne [Commanded the British Forces at Constantinople, later Istanbul, Turkey]; and other War Office officials.Subjects include: matters...
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12 Jan 1919 - 29 Dec 1919
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 Jan 1920 - 29 Apr 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/51A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes (and telegrams) from WSC to various individuals including: Secretary [War Office, Sir Reginald Brade]; 1st Lord Peel [Under-Secretary of State for War]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Sir Herbert Creedy; Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Chief of the Air Staff [Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Major-General Fabian Ware; [David Lloyd George]; Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal]; Director of...
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01 Jan 1920 - 29 Apr 1920
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 May 1920 - 31 Aug 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/52A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals including: Quartermaster-General [Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke]; Jack Scott [Air Secretary and Private Secretary to WSC]; Sir James Stevenson [Surveyor-General of Supply]; Secretary [War Office, ?Sir Reginald Brade]; Military Secretary [Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode]; Adjutant-General [Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh]; Major Lionel de Rothschild; Finance Member [Sir Archibald Williamson, later...
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01 May 1920 - 31 Aug 1920
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 Sep 1920 - 24 Dec 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/53A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals including: Secretary [War Office, Sir Herbert Creedy]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; 10th Lord Scarbrough [Director General Territorial and Volunteer Forces]; Chief of the Air Staff [Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Director of Military Operations [Major-General Sir Percy Radcliffe]; Quartermaster-General [Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke]; Finance Member [Sir Archibald Williamson,...
Dates:
01 Sep 1920 - 24 Dec 1920
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 03 Jan 1921 - 11 Feb 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/73
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Includes carbon copies of minutes from WSC to various individuals including: Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet]; Prime Minister [David Lloyd George]; 1st Lord Curzon [Foreign Secretary]; Adjutant-General [Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh]; Secretary [War Office, Sir Herbert Creedy]; Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff, Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso,...
Dates:
03 Jan 1921 - 11 Feb 1921
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 Apr 1919 - 28 Jun 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/16A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes (some annotated in reply) from WSC to various individuals including: Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Director of Military Intelligence [Major-General William Thwaites]; Deputy Director of Military Operations and Military Intelligence [Colonel George Cockerill]; Master-General of the Ordnance [Lieutenant-General Sir William Furse]; Quartermaster-General [Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke]; Secretary [War Office, Sir...
Dates:
01 Apr 1919 - 28 Jun 1919
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 Sep 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/18A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and telegrams (some annotated in reply) from WSC to various individuals including: Air Secretary [Jack Scott]; Chief of the Air Staff [Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Quartermaster-General [Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke]; Adjutant-General [Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh]; Major-General Sir John Asser [General Officer Commanding British Troops, France and Flanders]; Military Secretary [Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Davies]; Sir Archibald...
Dates:
01 Sep 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 15 Jan 1919 - 27 Mar 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/15A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes (some annotated in reply) from WSC to various individuals including: Secretary [War Office, Sir Reginald Brade]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Air Secretary [Jack Scott]; Major-General John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone, Under-Secretary of State for Air]; Chief of the Air Staff [Major-General Frederick Sykes, until February 1919; Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, from February 1919]; Director of Military Intelligence...
Dates:
15 Jan 1919 - 27 Mar 1919
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 19 Jun 1919 - 31 Aug 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/17A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes (some annotated in reply) from WSC to various individuals including: Air Secretary [Jack Scott]; Secretary [War Office, Sir Reginald Brade]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Chief of the Air Staff [Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Adjutant-General [Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh]; Under-Secretary of State for War [1st Lord Peel]; Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Director of...
Dates:
19 Jun 1919 - 31 Aug 1919
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Series
Official: War Cabinet, 1917 - 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27
Scope and Contents
The War Cabinet papers contain mainly of printed material, and some notes and correspondence. Although WSC did not become a member of the War Cabinet, he was present at some of its meetings and served on some of its committees. The papers in this class consist of papers produced or acquired by WSC which do not arise directly out of his functions as Minister of Munitions and Secretary of State for War and Air. There is, however, some overlap with the papers in CHAR 15 (Official: Munitions)...
Dates:
1917 - 1919
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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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Official: War Cabinet: Correspondence and papers., 31 Dec 1918 - 31 Aug 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/57
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Letters or papers from various individuals including: [Major General Sir] William Thwaites [Director of Military Intelligence, War Office]; [Major-General Tasker] Bliss regarding the United States' view on the Peace Conference; Lord Curzon of Kedlestone [Lord President of the Council] on British policy in Russia and Bolshevism (2); 5th Lord Kilmarnock on Bolshevik atrocities; Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on a disagreement with WSC over the relationship between Secretaries...
Dates:
31 Dec 1918 - 31 Aug 1919
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Official: War Cabinet: Correspondence and papers, mainly on the Russian campaign., 01 Oct 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/58
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Letters or papers from various individuals including: WSC, Secretary of State for War, on Cyprus and Russia; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the War Cabinet (2); and Lieutenant-Colonel William Roddie.Includes reports on affairs in Siberia, and Transcaucasia, and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and their relationship with Russia; the publication of diplomatic and historical documents; and the commercial situation in Southern Russia.Also includes copies of letters from WSC...
Dates:
01 Oct 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 08 Aug 1917 - 14 Aug 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/14A-B
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Sir Charles Gordon on manufacture of machinery in the United States; Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] on press reaction in the Netherlands (20); Charles Bayley [British Consul to the United States] on [Ignace] Paderewski and Poland's attitude towards the war; Sir George Buchanan, [British Ambassador to Russia] (9); Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British...
Dates:
08 Aug 1917 - 14 Aug 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 15 Aug 1917 - 17 Aug 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/15A-B
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Archibald Madden [British consul at Bilbao, Spain]; Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British Ambassador to the United States] on subjects including the SS Inland (4); Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] on the press (23); [Esme] Howard [British Minister in Sweden] on Swedish exports (4); Charles Bayley [British Consul to the United States] on trade; Sir...
Dates:
15 Aug 1917 - 17 Aug 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables, 17 Aug 1917 - 20 Aug 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/16
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Dayrell Crackanthorpe on subjects including a loan to Greece from the United States (6); Sir Horace Rumbold [British Minister in Switzerland]; Hugh Gurney; Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British Ambassador to the United States] on subjects including a loan to Denmark and the conference of neutral powers (7); Sir Mansfeldt Findlay [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Norway] on supplies to Germany (11); Sir...
Dates:
17 Aug 1917 - 20 Aug 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 21 Aug 1917 - 23 Aug 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/17
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Dayrell Crackanthorpe (4); Sir Horace Rumbold [British Minister in Switzerland] (6); Beilby Alston [British Charge d'Affaires in Peking, later Beijing, China] (2); Hugh Gurney on subjects including food growing in Denmark (4); Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] on affairs in Germany and the press (15); Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British Ambassador to the...
Dates:
21 Aug 1917 - 23 Aug 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 25 Aug 1917 - 27 Aug 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/18
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: [1st] Lord Bertie [British Ambassador to France] (9); Sir Mansfeldt Findlay [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Norway] (9); [Esme] Howard [British Minister in Sweden] on subjects including Russian oil (4); Charles Bayley [British Consul to the United States]; Dayrell Crackanthorpe on dealings with the Greek government (9); Hugh Gurney; Sir George Barclay [British Minister in Romania]; Sir Rennell Rodd...
Dates:
25 Aug 1917 - 27 Aug 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 28 Aug 1917 - 31 Aug 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/19
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] with details of items in the press (16); Sir Reginald Wingate [High Commissioner of Egypt] (3); Sir Arthur Hardinge [British Ambassador to Spain]; Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British Ambassador to the United States] on subjects including Dutch ships and supplies from the United States (13); [Esme] Howard [British Minister...
Dates:
28 Aug 1917 - 31 Aug 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 03 Sep 1917 - 05 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/20
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] with details of the press (15); Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British Ambassador to the United States] (4); Sir George Buchanan [British Ambassador to Russia] on dealings with the Russian government (3); Hugh Gurney (4); [Herbert] Cummins [British representative to Mexico] (2); Dayrell Crackanthorpe on dealings with the...
Dates:
03 Sep 1917 - 05 Sep 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 06 Sep 1917 - 12 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/21
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: [Esme] Howard [British Minister in Sweden] on dealings between Sweden and Argentina (13); Sir Mansfeldt Findlay [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Norway] (5); Sir Francis Stronge [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Chile]; [1st] Lord Bertie [British Ambassador to France] (13); Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] with...
Dates:
06 Sep 1917 - 12 Sep 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 12 Sep 1917 - 14 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/22
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: [Esme] Howard [British Minister in Sweden] on subjects including the transmission of German telegrams (9); [1st] Lord Bertie [British Ambassador to France] on the composition of the French ministry (9); Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] on subjects including the press and the possibility of peace negotiations with Germany (15); Sir Lancelot Carnegie...
Dates:
12 Sep 1917 - 14 Sep 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 15 Sep 1917 - 16 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/23
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Sir Rennell Rodd [later 1st Lord Rennell, British Ambassador to Italy]; Sir Horace Rumbold [British Minister in Switzerland] (3); [Esme] Howard [British Minister in Sweden] on subjects including the Swedish press and Great Britain's mistrust of the Swedish navy (14); Hugh Gurney; Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] on subjects including the press (22);...
Dates:
15 Sep 1917 - 16 Sep 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 15 Sep 1917 - 18 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/24
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Sir George Buchanan [British Ambassador to Russia] on subjects including threat of revolution and the mobilisation of Russian troops (7); Sir Horace Rumbold [British Minister in Switzerland] (3); Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British Ambassador to the United States] on subjects including negotiations between the United States and Denmark and export licenses (5); Dayrell Crackanthorpe (3); [1st] Lord Bertie [British...
Dates:
15 Sep 1917 - 18 Sep 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 19 Sep 1917 - 28 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/25
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Ernest Rennie [British Minister to Peru]; Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] on subjects including food supplies, the Hague agreement regarding prisoners of war, and the press (10); Sir Horace Rumbold [British Minister in Switzerland] on Swiss exports of munitions (3); Hugh Gurney; Sir George Barclay [British Minister in Romania] (3); Sir George...
Dates:
19 Sep 1917 - 28 Sep 1917
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