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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 692 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 08 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/223/12-14
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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.

Dates: 08 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/223/19-21
Scope and Contents Telegram from [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary, Yalta, Soviet Union] to Private Office marked "From: Argonaut", "Jason 321", and "Personal" passing on a message from WSC to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] for the War Cabinet: reporting discussions [at the Yalta Conference] on Soviet representation in the United Nations Assembly, Poland, France and General Charles de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic], and military...
Dates: 10 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jun 1945 - 18 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/62-63
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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].

Dates: 17 Jun 1945 - 18 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23-25 Jan 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/14/89-91
Scope and Contents Private memorandum from WSC, Secretary of State for War (War Office, Whitehall) to Sir Arthur Hirtzel [Deputy Under Secretary, India Office] asking whether it would be "right or possible to form a Mohammedan [Muslim] Guard of Indian volunteers" to protect the holy places; making observations on the weaknesses of King Hussain's position and seeking further information; Ibn Saud's likely reaction if a son of King Hussain became ruler over Mesopotamia [later Iraq]; consistent nomenclature for...
Dates: 23-25 Jan 1921
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [25 Jan 1921]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/14/92-96
Scope and Contents Memorandum from [Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Deputy Under Secretary, India Office](India Office) to WSC in answer to his memorandum [CHAR 17/14/89-91] providing information about an Indian Mohammedan [Muslim] guard for holy places, explaining that shrines in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Palestine haven't needed protection (annotated by WSC "No I meant Mecca and Medina"); King Hussain's position and possible threats; Ibn Saud's and a Shereefian ruler of Mesopotamia and his credibility; orthography of Ibn...
Dates: [25 Jan 1921]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/73
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and top secret": offers deep sympathy on the death of General Edwin Watson [Secretary to President of the United States]; comments on the House of Commons debate on Poland and states that "there is a good deal of uneasiness in both Parties that we are letting the Poles down"; expresses the view that as many representative Poles should be invited as soon as possible to the consultations in Moscow [Soviet Union] and that above all...
Dates: 28 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), 18 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/76-77
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and private": expresses hope that his rather numerous telegrams are not becoming a bore and reflects on the development and importance of their relationship, "Our friendship is the rock on which I build for the future of the world so long as I am one of the builders"; states that he is sending most of his Ministerial colleagues to Washington or San Francisco [United States] on one Mission or another, that he is looking forward to...
Dates: 18 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), 13 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/110
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "personal" [regarding the death of President Roosevelt]. WSC offers his personal sympathy on the loss "which you and the American nation have sustained in the death of our illustrious friend", and expresses hope that he and Truman will be able to renew "the intimate comradeship" that WSC had enjoyed with Roosevelt. He concludes by offering his respectful good wishes , "as you step into the breach in the victorious lines of the United...
Dates: 13 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), 05 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/200/26
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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].

Dates: 05 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), 17 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/200/27
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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].

Dates: 17 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), 28 Jan 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/200/30
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to "Louis" [Major General Sir Edward Spears, Conservative MP for Carlisle, Cumberland] stating that it is not possible for him to "go into all these tangled matters in correspondence" but that he gathers Spears is "inclined to take a somewhat critical line against Government policy in Syria and the Lebanon" and that this does not seem correct while Spears is still in receipt of pay for deferred leave. "It is natural that if you attack the Government some of your Conservative...
Dates: 28 Jan 1945
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), 28 Jan 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/200/32
Scope and Contents Minute from WSC to Chairman of the Conservative Party [Ralph Assheton, later 1st Lord Clitheroe] marked "indexed" stating that he should see the letter from "Sir Louis Spears" [Major General Sir Edward Spears, Conservative MP for Carlisle, Cumberland] and WSC's reply [see CHAR 20/200/29-30]. "We do not want to lose the Seat. The matter is entirely confidential" [Carbon] With note in the hand of Leslie Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] explaining that Spears letter was about...
Dates: 28 Jan 1945
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), 24 Apr 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/122/86-87
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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.

Dates: 24 Apr 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Apr 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/122/94
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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.

Dates: 27 Apr 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 May 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/122/118-120
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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.

Dates: 08 May 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Sep 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/143-144
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour] on: the danger of the Coalition breaking up when unity is essential to meet the challenge of the Labour Party; the inclination of 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] and [David Lloyd George] to have a general election in October; the evidence from Scotland that the longer the election was postponed the worse it would be for the Coalition; WSC's reluctant agreement to an October election; the forthcoming meeting at Chequers to plan...
Dates: 12 Sep 1922
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/164/93-100
Scope and Contents Letter from [Lord Cecil of Chelwood, earlier Lord Robert Cecil] (Holker Hall, Cark-in-Cartmell, Lancashire) arguing [with reference to the "The Aftermath", the last volume of "The World Crisis"] that David Lloyd George was in a very powerful position at the end of the war and need not have been induced by the press to stand for a punitive peace settlement. Recalls the attitude of various statesmen to the work of the League of Nations Commission and the question of the establishment of...
Dates: 08 Jan 1929
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), [Dec] [1920]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/111/127
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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.

Dates: [Dec] [1920]
Conditions Governing Access: 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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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/251/2
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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".

Dates: 02 Jan 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/234/2-3
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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.

Dates: 03 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jul 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/236/122-124
Scope and Contents Letter from Desmond Morton (Earlylands, Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent) to WSC, congratulating him on his speech [on the Anglo-German Naval Agreement], "recalling attention to the fact that Germany remains the true menace to European peace", and remarking on how those ministers previously mildly opposed to the anti-German attitude have reversed their positions. He also points out the Foreign Secretary [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood]'s sudden change of attitude, the lunacy of...
Dates: 12 Jul 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/157
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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.

Dates: 25 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/163-165
Scope and Contents Letter from Desmond Morton, Crookham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent, to WSC, congratulations on speech in the House of Commons on German re-armament, commenting that Germany had not liked the speech "but resentfully admired it in private". Also commenting that League of Nations sanctions were becoming a mockery, and that although Britain should continue to support the League it should not overrate the League's power "when opposed to that of Germany whose strength and cunning, compared with Italy,...
Dates: 26 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/166-167
Scope and Contents Letter from Captain Gerald Muirhead-Gould, Naval Attache, British Embassy, Berlin, (sent from Warsaw, Poland) to WSC, praising his speech of 24 Oct in the House of Commons on German re-armament. Commenting that he had to wait until he left Germany before sending the letter, as the Germans were so annoyed with WSC for telling the truth that no letters addressed to WSC would have got out of the country. Also commenting that the Germans feared that WSC would become First Lord of the Admiralty...
Dates: 28 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/182-184
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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".

Dates: 31 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open