Foreign policy
Found in 692 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 08 Feb 1945
Telegram from WSC [Yalta, Soviet Union] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] for the War Cabinet marked "From: Argonaut", "Jason 221", and "Personal and Top Secret" enclosing the texts of the Soviet proposal and the revised [Allied] proposal on the future Polish frontiers and government.
(Untitled), 10 Feb 1945
(Untitled), 17 Jun 1945 - 18 Jun 1945
Telegram from Sir Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Athens [Greece]) to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" setting out suggestions for a future British policy to ensure Italy and Greece do not fall to communists. [Despatched on 18 June; carbon copy].
(Untitled), 23-25 Jan 1921
(Untitled), [25 Jan 1921]
(Untitled), 28 Feb 1945
(Untitled), 18 Mar 1945
(Untitled), 13 Apr 1945
(Untitled), 05 Dec 1944
Extract from an article by Alistair Forbes in the Daily Mail commenting on the recall of Major General Sir Edward Spears from Beirut [Lebanon] [where he had been First Minister to the Republics of Syria and the Lebanon] and stating that this "removes the most obstinate fly, or should one say wasp, from the Anglo-French ointment". [Typescript].
(Untitled), 17 Dec 1944
Extract from an article in the Sunday Pictorial commenting on the resignation of General "Sir Arthur" Spears [Major General Sir Edward Spears] from his job as "British Minister to Syria and Lebanon" [First Minister to the Republics of Syria and the Lebanon], and stating that, "In fact he is coming home because de Gaulle [General Charles de Gaulle, President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] has had enough of him". [Typescript].
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1945
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1945
(Untitled), 24 Apr 1922
Letter from H A Gwynne (The Morning Post, 346 Strand, [London]) to WSC urging him to protest against David Lloyd George's policy at the Genoa Conference of allowing the aggrandisement of Russia and Germany at the expense of France.
(Untitled), 27 Apr 1922
Letter from WSC to H A Gwynne arguing that the Bolsheviks will use their attendance at the Genoa Conference for propaganda purposes at home and that in the unlikely event of their reaching an agreement at the Conference, bringing the threat of a rift between Britain and France, "a very grave issue will be raised on which in the first instance the Cabinet must pronounce." Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 08 May 1922
Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to "Eddie" [17th Lord Derby] arguing that it is a delicate time to speak about Anglo-French relations because France may invade the Ruhr [Germany] and that Britain should have used her influence to prevent such an event rather than "quarrelling with France for not pandering to the Bolshevists". Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.
(Untitled), 12 Sep 1922
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1929
(Untitled), [Dec] [1920]
Note from WSC to [Austen Chamberlain]: "this is all working up to you." With Chamberlain's reply that his budget is destroyed whatever [? foreign] policy is adopted because there is no policy which can be carried out within the estimates.
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1936
Letter from Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood], Hotel Castell, Zuoz, Switzerland to WSC, thanks for letter on his resignation as Foreign Secretary. Commenting that he was not prepared to risk a European War "with French opinion overwhelmingly opposed to it". Stating that he continued to be worried by the "indifference of the British world to the dangers that you and I foresee only too clearly".
(Untitled), 03 Jan 1935
Letter from WSC to [George Trevelyan] on how many letters he has of Edward Grey's [1st Lord Grey of Fallodon] for Trevelyan to use in his biography of Grey, and Grey's role as Foreign Secretary in resisting Germany in 1914. Unsigned copy.
(Untitled), 12 Jul 1935
(Untitled), 25 Oct 1935
Letter from Leo Amery (112 Eaton Square, London SW1) to WSC, sending copy of book [? The Forward View], explaining his opposition to the League of Nations as a coercive body.
(Untitled), 26 Oct 1935
(Untitled), 28 Oct 1935
(Untitled), 31 Oct 1935
Letter from Roy Harrod, Christ Church, Oxford, to WSC, on the international situation, particularly the need to offer "something reasonable, even generous, to Italy". Also commenting on the Oxford Union's "won't fight" debate, stating that the "won't fight" brigade were "precisely all that is best in the country. They are willing to fight and die - more willing than any generation has been - but not for outworn causes".