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Foreign policy

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 692 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 15 Jan 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/2
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Cutting from The Morning Post - The International Situation - What he Public Ought to Know.

Dates: 15 Jan 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Jan 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/3-7
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Cutting from The Morning Post - National Defence: The Whole Truth - What the Country is not Told - Inside Story of the Peace Crisis.

Dates: 16 Jan 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jan 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/8-11
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Cutting from The Morning Post - The Facts About the Fleet - Shortage of Men, Ships, Shells and Oil.

Dates: 17 Jan 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jan 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/12
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Cutting from The Morning Post - Germany, France and Italy - reactions of "Morning Post Disclosures" [on the inadequacy of Britain's defences].

Dates: 17 Jan 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jan 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/13-16
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Cutting from The Morning Post - What They Say - Views of the Men Who Know - comments on the disclosures by the Morning Post of the inadequacy of Britain's defences by The Archbishop of York (William Temple), Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty, Lord Tyrrell, Lord Milne, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lord Winterton, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Sir Edward Grigg (later Lord Altrincham) and Sir Arnold Wilson.

Dates: 17 Jan 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Feb 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/28-29
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Cutting from The News Chronicle - Sir Samuel Hoare's Defence to his Constituency - Could not Refuse Ambassador's Insistent Request to Call on Laval in Paris - giving the text of personal statement by Sir Samuel Hoare (later Lord Templewood) defending his action in negotiating the Hoare-Laval Peace Plan.

Dates: 07 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Feb 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/30
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Cutting from the Sunday Express - column - Politicians and Politics by Peter Howard.

Dates: 09 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/44
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Cutting from the Evening Standard - article by WSC "Stop it Now", on the international situation.

Dates: 03 Apr 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1936]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/45-47
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Memorandum - "Consequences, from the military point of view, of an evolution of the international situation of Belgium from that defined by the Treaty of Locarno", author unknown.

Dates: [1936]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Jun 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/62
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Printed speech by Sir John Simon, Home Secretary, in the House of Commons "Why Sanctions Should Cease", explaining the Government's belief that following the end of the Italo-Abyssinian War there was "no longer any utility in continuing sanctions". Published by the Liberal National Organization.

Dates: 23 Jun 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Aug 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/331/4
Scope and Contents Letter from [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] (The Manor House, Great Durnford, Salisbury [Wiltshire]) to WSC, thanking him for his letter and for sending some papers [notes of an interview between WSC and a Major von Kleist, on Germany's intentions towards Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia], with a letter given by WSC to von Kleist describing what Britain's reaction would be to an invasion of Czechoslovakia]. Chamberlain writes that he had actually already seen...
Dates: 26 Aug 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Oct 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/28A/20-30
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to J C Robertson [President, Dundee Liberal Association to be read out on WSC's behalf to electors] on subjects including: criticism of the Conservative government; the position of the House of Commons with 4 Secretaries of State in the House of Lords; his hope to be adopted as their parliamentary candidate as a "Liberal and a Free Trader"; socialism; commitments in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Palestine and WSC's responsibility for reducing expenditure; his pride in his...
Dates: 27 Oct 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Sep 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/4/40-41
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Honor, Off Mytilene [Mitilini, Greece]) to Sir Edward Grey thanking him for taking over his "painful duties" [see CHAR 12/4/39]. WSC describes a decision over a capital case which he regrets, and speaks of the departmental work he has accomplished while on holiday. He describes the places he has visited (including Monte Carlo where he won o160), a meeting with Governor Mahmoud Muktar, and an incident in which de Forest [Count de Bendern] shot a seagull with a Mauser pistol....
Dates: 09 Sep 1910
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), 27 Jul 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/10/64
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Letter from Lord Knollys [Private Secretary to King George V] (Buckingham Palace) to WSC thanking him on behalf of the King for sending him an account of the "German-Morocco" question [the sending of a gun boat to Agadir by Germany] and expressing the King's approval of Parliament's support of the Government's foreign policy. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 27 Jul 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jan 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/9-12
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to the President of the United States [President Dwight Eisenhower] marked "top secret: private and personal" in which he apologises for the delay in replying to Eisenhower; comments on the possibilities of the French delaying ratification [of the European Defence Community]; agrees that there can be no Four Power conference before ratification; discusses the increase in the Soviet Union's nuclear power; Great Britain's nuclear capability in the atomic and hydrogen...
Dates: 12 Jan 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Dec 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/22B/302-352
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (10 December, House of Commons) on foreign affairs including: the partition of Ireland and imperial preference; relations with the United States; the achievements of General Dwight Eisenhower; government policy regarding Germany and assistance to the people of Berlin; the progress of European integration; affairs in Palestine and Spain; and the likelihood of war with the Soviet Union.Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style" to aid delivery with...
Dates: 10 Dec 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Weekend World, 1983-01 - 1985-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 17/32
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Briefings, arrangements (including correspondence with Peter Mandelson, producer) and transcripts for NK’s interviews with Brian Walden for Weekend World. Subjects include: economic policy and Labour’s attitude to the City; NK’s visits to Europe, the Stockholm Conference on arms control [Sweden] and the situation in the Lebanon; foreign policy; renationalisation; pensions; defence; energy.

Dates: 1983-01 - 1985-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.