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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 ex-servicemen 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, from Australia, Belgium, Canada and Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia] 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, from Denmark, France, Holland [the Netherlands] and India, 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, from Jerusalem [Israel], New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, South America, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, writing to congratulate Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis.

Scope and Contents Correspondents congratulating Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis include: Leo Amery; Duncan Sandys; Rennie Smith, Secretary, Friends of Europe; [Edward] George Churchill; [Thomas] Malcolm Muggeridge; [Richard] Ellis Roberts; Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso]; Emil Ludwig; Daniel Macmillan; Sir David Waller; Victoria, Lady Nicolson [Vita Sackville-West]; [Arthur] Basil Williams; Bernard Falk; Robert Sherard; Herbert Syrett; Sir Wilfrid Spender;...

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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.

Scope and Contents Correspondents writing to Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis include: [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain on subjects including his view that David Lloyd George was waiting for the opportunity to emulate Marshal Philippe Petain [Chief of French State], his own failing health and the personal goodwill between him and Cooper (3); 1st Lord Chatfield [1st Sea Lord] on his regret at Cooper’s departure from the Admiralty; Stephen King-Hall; Robert Byron; Josiah...

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

Scope and Contents Correspondents congratulating Duff Cooper on his resignation from the Government over the Munich Crisis include: Harold Nicolson; Edward Spears; 10th Lord Strabolgi [earlier Joseph Kenworthy]; [Cecil] Maurice Bowra; Sir Timothy Eden; Roy Harrod; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams; Louis Bromfield; 1st Lord Davies; Ellen Wilkinson; Ronald Cartland; John Jagger; Sir Arthur Grant-Duff; Philip Guedalla; Adrian Carton de Wiart; Randolph Churchill; Sir...

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

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Notes mainly taken during the Munich Crisis.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Smuts on subjects including: accounts of military operations on the Tugela River [South Africa]; the Irish Convention (1917); the Palestine Campaign; the need for a separate Air Staff; costs of the separate war fronts; peace negotiations following the First World War; migration to South Africa; the Locarno Pact; the Imperial Conference (1926); LSA's Empire Tour; the proposal that Smuts should become High Commissioner of Palestine; the South African flag; the League of...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including: a pension paid to the Turkish Imperial Family; French attempts to bring about a Four-Power meeting on the future of Germany; developing Empire trade and the influence of GATT [general agreement on tariffs and trade]; LSA's views on the situation in Palestine; National Service; defence of the Suez Canal [Egypt] and the Sudan problem; keeping out of internal Yugoslav politics [Yugoslavia, later Bosnia and Herzegovina,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

These extracts from the Caldecote diaries relate only to the Munich crisis in 1938, the outbreak of the Second World War and its first few months. Certain omissions have been made in this copy and these are usually indicated by a line of dots.