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Includes: draft book review by AHM, “Prelude to Hitler” by B T Reynolds; two issues of the Listener, one with a piece on the Saar by Margaret Lambert and one (1948) with the text of a broadcast by AHM, “Was Neville Chamberlain’s policy wrong?” and a copy of comments on her broadcast by Lewis Namier, in "Munich Survey: a summing up"; copies from a [?] magazine article of letters between Jan Smuts and Sir Robert Hadfield and copies of photographs of Smuts and his daughter.

Scope and Contents Career: Speculation within the press, concerning WSC’s absence from higher government and his suitability for a return to the Admiralty; Julian Sandys is born 19 September 1936. Domestic Policy: Abdication of King Edward VIII [later Edward, Duke of Windsor]; Alfred Duff-Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] resigns; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain rejects calls for a general election; House of Commons endorses conscription. Foreign Policy: WSC highlights Britain’s defensive needs...

Scope and Contents Letter written at the time of the Munich Crisis, on subjects including: AS’s distress at the choice between immediate war and capitulation to the Fascist powers; the humiliation of Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] and the lack of leadership shown by Britain; opposition to Chamberlain’s appeasement policy; the betrayal of Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia]; AS’s own speech; support from the Liberals, Winston Churchill, Harcourt Johnstone ("Crinks") and [Robert] Anthony...

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Subjects include: the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Paris [France]; a cruise in the Baltic [on the Admiralty yacht Enchantress]; Cooper’s resignation [as First Lord of the Admiralty, over the Munich Crisis]; staying in Paris with Laura Corrigan.

Scope and Contents Includes letter from Neville Chamberlain accepting his resignation (1 October 1938), and letters from Stanley Baldwin, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Boothby, Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, "Bobbety" [Viscount Cranborne], Anthony Eden, Malcolm Macdonald, Harold Macmillan, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Lord Rothermere Also include a small selection of letters from prominent Americans who had received copies of Duff Cooper's", The Second World War" (1939),...

Scope and Contents Includes loose papers and correspondence on the Munich Crisis, including: correspondence between Cooper and 1st Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin]; a note from Cooper to the Prime Minister [(Arthur) Neville Chamberlain] saying that Britain should mobilise its forces immediately; copy of a telegram from Chamberlain to Eduard Benes [President of the Czechoslovak Republic, later Czech Republic and Slovakia], advising him to withdraw his troops from areas of...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the agreement to cede the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic and Slovakia], to Germany, with correspondents supporting LSA's criticism of the Munich Agreement including: Anthony Crossley; John Hammond; Harold Armstrong; Alexander Fraser, Warden of Newbattle Abbey College; Joseph King; [Frederick] Victor Fisher. Papers include: extracts from the German press; text of a broadcast by [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] on the Munich...

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Annotated typescript, covering: the Munich Crisis; the build-up from Munich to the outbreak of the Second World War; the formation of the War Cabinet, early months of the war and fall of [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain.

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Includes many letters on Cooper's resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis, 1938.

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Letter on Cooper's resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty over the Munich agreement.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...

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Letters from members of the clergy writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from Duff Cooper’s constituents, writing to congratulate him on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis. Correspondents include: Colin Coote; Paul Emrys-Evans; Marjorie Maxse, Chief Organisation Officer, Conservative Central Office; Sir John Murray; [Morgan] Goronwy Rees; Harold Heathcote-Williams.

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Letters from Duff Cooper’s constituents against his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

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Letters from members of the public writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.