Railway transport
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 225 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), [Aug] [1911]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/12/62-63
Scope and Contents
Notes [?by WSC] about the railway strike including the areas in which the majority of railway workers are on strike and where there is a threat of famine. The help of the population in the affected regions is appealed for and a promise is made that "there is nothing that the Government will not do that is in their power". Unsigned typescript annotated by WSC "Secret. Put by".
Dates:
[Aug] [1911]
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), [19] [Aug] [1911]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/12/64-65
Scope and Contents
Section of a draft telegram to be ciphered and sent from [WSC] to King George V detailing the extent of the railway strike and the percentage of railway workers on strike in individual areas, and warning that the stoppage of goods trains in the strike areas threatens an estimated 20 million people with famine. Typescript.
Dates:
[19] [Aug] [1911]
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] [Aug] [1911]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/12/68-72
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Copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V covering various subjects including: an improvement in the London dock strike; negotiations with the railway workers and the fact that the signal for a general railway strike has not been given; assurances that railway services can be maintained; a report from the Chief Constable of Liverpool which includes notification that the [H M S] Antrim has arrived at the Mersey; details of the troops sent to Sheffield and London and preparations to swear...
Dates:
[17] [Aug] [1911]
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] [Aug] [1911]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/12/73-77
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Draft copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V covering various subjects including: an improvement in the London dock strike; negotiations with the railway workers and the fact that the signal for a general railway strike has not been given; assurances that railway services can be maintained; a report from the Chief Constable of Liverpool which includes notification that the [H M S] Antrim has arrived at the Mersey; details of the troops sent to Sheffield and London and preparations to...
Dates:
[17] [Aug] [1911]
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] [Aug] [1911]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/12/81-82
Scope and Contents
Copy of a telegram from [WSC] to King George V covering various subjects including: the restoration of essential services on the railway network; the numbers of railway workers still on strike; the refusal of offers of service by the railway managers; the continuing movement of the troops and enrolment of Special Constables and [WSC's] hopes of resolving the London docks strike. Typescript.
Dates:
[18] [Aug] [1911]
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 Mar 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/192/120
Scope and Contents
Note explaining that CHAR 2/192/121-124 has been revived because Russian activity on the western frontier of Afghanistan and political excitement in India have made it important that British control of the Indian railway systems is maintained.
Dates:
28 Mar 1933
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 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/192/121-124
Scope and Contents
Note by Major-General Sir Sydney D'Aguilar Crookshank on the military transport situation on the North-West Frontier of India. Sent with CHAR 2/192/120.
Dates:
05 Dec 1927
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), 11 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/167/63
Scope and Contents
Extract from the "Times trade and engineering supplement" on railway modernisation.
Dates:
11 May 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.
Unknown
(Untitled), 27 Nov 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/27/66-69
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC (In camp near Mrali, Victoria Nile, Uganda [Africa]) to [King Edward VII] about his visit to Africa and impressions of the country. WSC expresses admiration for "these noble and spacious posessions" recently added to the Dominions, especially the East African Protectorate and Kenya; describes Mount Kenya and Uganda; notes the "evil effects" of the climate on Europeans and the danger of diseases especially sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly; praises the...
Dates:
27 Nov 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 28 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/48-52
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Letter from Sir James Grigg (Secretary of State for War) to WSC replying to his minute of 21 June asking for a report on the letter of 18 Jun from David Robertson [Conservative MP for Streatham, London] and answering the points raised in Robertson's letter paragraph by paragraph. States that he dealt with the complaint that overseas service is too long in his statement to the House of Commons on 8 June. Refers to statements made to the House by Malcolm McCorquodale [Parliamentary Secretary...
Dates:
28 Jun 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), Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/54-55
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Note [based on letter from Sir James Grigg, Secretary of State for War, to WSC replying to comments made by David Robertson, Conservative MP for Streatham, London]. States that complaint that overseas service is too long was dealt with by Grigg in statement to the House of Commons on 8 June. States that the reasons for not calling up men in reserved occupations at home and over 30 years of age were explained by the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Labour [Malcolm McCorquodale] in...
Dates:
Jul 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 Mar 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/81
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Alfred Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich, British Ambassador to France] to Foreign Office marked "special (economic, supply and relief)" reporting on the progress of the Rosenman mission to France. States that Samuel Rosenman [Special Counsel to President of the United States] has had detailed discussions with various sections of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force concerned with with civil affairs, transportation and all supplies, including coal and Pol[and]....
Dates:
28 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), 25 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/102-103
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Sir Stafford Cripps [Lord Privy Seal] (New Delhi [India]) to WSC reporting on a meeting with Lieutenant-General Ernest Wood [Administrator General, Eastern Frontier Communications] regarding road and rail building: comments on the progress of the Dimapur [India] - Tamu - Kalewa [Burma, later Myanmar] road, the Ledo [India] - Shawbuyiwang - China road, the road to Fort Herts [Burma], and the Ledo [India] - Mogaung [Burma] railway.
Dates:
25 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
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(Untitled), 08 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/17
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to Premier Stalin marked "personal and secret" informing him that his "later information" [? Enigma decrypts] shows that German plans for sending shipping to the Caspian by rail have been suspended.
Dates:
08 Oct 1942
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), 20 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/80-84
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "most secret and personal" reporting observations made during his recent visit to Baghdad [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf Ports on the difficulties of getting aid to Russia and on the administrative problems facing the new Persia [now Iran] / Iraq Command.
Dates:
20 Oct 1942
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), 21 Aug 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/72
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee], General Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] and others concerned marked "most secret and personal" regarding acceptance of President Roosevelt's offer to take over the working of the Trans-Persian railway and the port of Khorramshahr [Iran].
Dates:
21 Aug 1942
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), 26 Aug 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/42A/19
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC on need to alter railway between Safaga and Nile Valley [Egypt] to metric gauge.
Dates:
26 Aug 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
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(Untitled), 31 Aug 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/42A/42
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC thanking him for help on the railway projects (standardising gauges).
Dates:
31 Aug 1941
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 23 Oct 1942 - 28 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/55/21-29
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Francis Brown [Private Secretary to WSC], A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, WSC and 1st Lord Leathers [Minister of War Transport] on absence of a sleeper carriage for Alexander on a train.
Dates:
23 Oct 1942 - 28 Oct 1942
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(Untitled), 07 Jan 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/36/56
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Letter from [George Cornwallis-West] (North Stafford Station Hotel, Stoke on Trent [Staffordshire]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that the weather has been "beastly", that he is going to travel to Loughborough [Leicestershire] and that the Midland Railway are going to stop a train for him.
Dates:
07 Jan 1903
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), 31 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/229B/155
Scope and Contents
Extract from the minutes of a meeting of the Board of Directors of the London and North Eastern Railway Company, (Secretary's Office, Marylebone Station [London]) containing a resolution congratulating WSC on his war leadership signed by Chairman Sir Ronald Matthews.
Dates:
31 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 21 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/87
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] (Washington [United States]) to WSC agreeing with his misgivings concerning the proposed boundaries of the French zone of occupation in Germany and its effect on railway links; and suggesting possible amendments. Copy.
Dates:
21 Apr 1945
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 18 Apr 1945 - 19 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/215/25
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (Washington [United States]) marked "Personal and Top Secret" arguing for the boundaries of the French zone of occupation in Germany to be drawn "so as to ensure a wide corridor between the boundaries of France and Russia" and so that railway communication can run directly from the British to the United States zone. Despatched on 19 April.
Dates:
18 Apr 1945 - 19 Apr 1945
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 31 Jan 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/77
Scope and Contents
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on coal transport and shortages referring to "W.P.(R) (41) 6". [Copy; given running number 223a].
Dates:
31 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 24 Jan 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/87
Scope and Contents
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC submitting a draft minute on impeding railway traffic, particularly coal, from Germany to Italy. [Copy; given running number 217].
Dates:
24 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.