Economic policy
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"Principles", 24 Jul 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/105/2-9
Scope and Contents
Statement (marked "confidential") of the Conservative Party's "General Principles" on domestic and international affairs. Subjects include: free society and socialist states; the power of the state; duty of government; the welfare state; need for housing; economic policy including taxation; international relations including the increasing power of Russia, the Korean war and the British empire.Typescript. Includes covering letter from R A Butler.
Dates:
24 Jul 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Printed pamphlets by LSA, 1910-07 - 1946-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/1
Scope and Contents
Annotated prints of articles, lectures and broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: the problem of the cession of mandated territories, or former German colonies in Africa; Paneuropa and the Ottawa conference [Canada] in July 1932, concerning imperial trade, the inadequacy of the League of Nations and resulting importance of the Commonwealth, and the road to European economic unity; the British Empire and the Pan-European idea; Imperial unity; the balance of trade and proposals for...
Dates:
1910-07 - 1946-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Public and political: amendments in committee to the Finance Bill., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/172
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1930
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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Public and Political: Breach of Privilege Case., 01 May 1934 - 30 Jun 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/214A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on case before the Committee of Privileges on allegations that evidence of Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform had been suppressed by 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord Stanley] and Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood], Secretary of State for India.
Dates:
01 May 1934 - 30 Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and political: correspondence and papers relating to monetary affairs., 1931 - Apr 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/186
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1931 - Apr 1932
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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Public and political: correspondence and papers relating to monetary affairs., May 1932 - Jun 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/187
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
May 1932 - Jun 1932
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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Public and political: correspondence and papers relating to monetary affairs., Jul 1932 - Dec 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/188
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
Jul 1932 - Dec 1932
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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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 17 Nov 1936 - 26 Feb 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/294
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [President, League of Nations Union, earlier Lord Robert Cecil] on signatories to [?] a declaration by the union; Marie Belloc Lowndes [Marie Lowndes] on the effect of the press campaign by William Randolph Hearst on behalf of the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor [earlier Wallis Simpson] during the Abdication Crisis; Yvonne de Rothschild, asking WSC to support an appeal for...
Dates:
17 Nov 1936 - 26 Feb 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., Jun 1936 - 30 Mar 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/295
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Ormsby-Gore [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] on the Peel Commission [into Britain's Palestine Mandate]; "Harold R" [1st Lord Rothermere, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on Randolph Churchill's interview with General Franco for the Daily Mail, and Franco's sensible policies; Oliver Locker-Lampson; 4th Lord Camden, President, Kent Council of Social Service; Philip Guedalla [Honorary Director, Ibero- American Institute of Great...
Dates:
Jun 1936 - 30 Mar 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 10 Jan 1935 - 30 Jun 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/296A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Carl Bechhofer Roberts on subjects including his biography of WSC, and particularly the Abdication Crisis [of King Edward VIII, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor] (2); Ivy, Lady Chamberlain; Cosmo Lang [Archbishop of Canterbury]; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, on a speech by WSC in a foreign affairs debate, and his tribute to the Foreign Office; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [President, League of Nations Union, earlier Lord...
Dates:
10 Jan 1935 - 30 Jun 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 13 Apr 1937 - 05 Aug 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/297
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Clifford Norton [Private Secretary to the Permanent Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on the Samy family, former Sultans of Turkey (2); Prince M Bahaeddin Samy asking WSC for help on his family's position, and the Turkish succession (3); Sir Josiah Stamp [Chairman, London, Midland and Scottish Railway]; Sir Montague Burton, asking WSC to write the foreword to his book "Globe Girdling"; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil], President of...
Dates:
13 Apr 1937 - 05 Aug 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 11 Dec 1935 - 30 Sep 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/298
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Robert Cary on his attempt to visit the Maginot Line [France] (2); 1st Lord Iliffe, President, National Advertising Benevolent Society; Basil Liddell Hart [personal adviser to the Secretary of State for War]; Major-General Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt [Military Attache, Paris, France]; 1st Lord Mottistone [earlier John Seely]; King Haakon VII of Norway; Sir Hubert Young [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia] on subjects including the...
Dates:
11 Dec 1935 - 30 Sep 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 05 Oct 1937 - 31 Mar 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/328
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on the French financial capability for war; Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]; 1st Lord Craigavon [earlier Sir James Craig], Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; Samuel Hood [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India]; Lord Ednam [later 4th Lord Dudley], President, Eton Political Society (2); Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft on a meeting of the Friends of Spain group,...
Dates:
05 Oct 1937 - 31 Mar 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 29 Dec 1937 - 15 Jul 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/330
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Ramsay Muir [Vice-President, Liberal Party Organization] on the possibility of a by-election in Epping [Essex]; Lieutenant-General Sir [George] Tom Bridges on WSC's speech at Sheffield [Yorkshire, 31 May] and wartime conscription; Philip Noel-Baker; Don Pablo de Azcarate y Florez, Spanish Ambassador to Britain, on including Spain in WSC's call for a team of peace-seeking nations; 10th Lord Elgin (and 14th Lord Kincardine [earlier Lord Bruce]), President, General...
Dates:
29 Dec 1937 - 15 Jul 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 01 May 1939 - 30 Jun 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/359
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: "Harold R" [1st Lord Rothermere, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on the German submarine programme (2); Oliver Locker-Lampson; Sir Hubert Gough; Evelyn Walkden; Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Muirhead [63rd (Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment] on finding positions in the Yeomanry for William Deakin and WSC's nephews [John G Churchill and Peregrine Churchill]; Thomas Horabin on public feeling about the Government's proposals for conscription (2); A P Herbert [Alan...
Dates:
01 May 1939 - 30 Jun 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence, A-B., Jan 1929 - Oct 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/572A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Edward Marsh on an expression used by WSC; Cyril Alington, Headmaster of Eton College, on the education of Randolph Churchill (2); [1st] Lord Beatty on subjects including criticism of an obituary of Admiral Franz Hipper (5); Julian Amery; Nancy, Lady Astor on a disagreement with WSC; John Astor; Wilfrid Bailey; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on subjects including WSC's "Marlborough: His Life and Times", WSC's health, Free Trade, India and political affairs (14);...
Dates:
Jan 1929 - Oct 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: correspondence from the general public in Britain and abroad on the Munich Crisis, Germany and Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia]; mostly supporting WSC and his fellow critics of Neville Chamberlain's policy towards Adolf Hitler., 02 Oct 1938 - 07 Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/607A-C
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Brigadier [Leonard] Smithers on arming the nation; Oliver Stewart on standing by France; [William] Adam; Eliot Slater; [Thomas Skeffington-]Lodge; [Rhys] Hopkin Morris on WSC's use of language; Reverend J Ingram Bryan on supplies going to Japan; [James] Leishman; Brigadier Sir Walter Ludlow sending a proof of an article by him on national military training.Other subjects include: congratulations on WSC's speeches and broadcasts on the matter; offers to assist WSC's...
Dates:
02 Oct 1938 - 07 Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence, L-M., May 1929 - Sep 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/575A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Oliver Locker Lampson on subjects including an invitation to give a lecture (2); Sir John Lavery on the Artists' General Benevolent Institution; Nathan Laski requesting an invitation with the Home Secretary; Shane Leslie on WSC's "Marlborough: His life and times" and on family news (3); Commander Augustus Agar on a possible lecture by WSC; Leonie Leslie [earlier Leonie Jerome]; Frederick Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] on subjects including the Conservative Party,...
Dates:
May 1929 - Sep 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence N-Z., 1880 - Jun 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/576A-C
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [Sir] Walton Newbold on economic issues; Harold Nicolson; Terence O'Connor on subjects including wireless broadcasting, Ireland and WSC's attacks on his speech; Sir Michael O'Dwyer; Herman Ould on the role of John Galsworthy's play "Justice" on prison reform; Edward Marsh on subjects including submarine campaigns (3); [Thomas] Guy Paget; [1st Lord] Portsea [earlier Bertram Falle]; [Frederick] Ponsonby [later 1st Lord Sysonby] on a libel case and distress to King...
Dates:
1880 - Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Cotton Spinning Industry Bill., 14 Jan 1936 - 13 Feb 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/289
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on the bill include: Herbert Williams [Director, Empire Industries Association] on objections to the bill; Ernest Haigh [Ernest Varley-Haigh], Chairman, Horrockses, Crewdson and Company Limited, on the possible benefits of the bill; Patrick Donner; various mill directors and members of the cotton industry on the heavy tax proposed in the bill to pay for the scrapping of surplus equipment, the resulting unemployment and fall in the export market, asking WSC to vote against the...
Dates:
14 Jan 1936 - 13 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and political: general: finance matters., 1929 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/171
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and other papers relating to financial matters.
Dates:
1929 - 1930
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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Public and Political: General: Germany and the European Situation: Memoranda., 19 Aug 1937 - 23 Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/340A-B
Scope and Contents
Notes and memoranda on Germany, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic and Slovakia] and Europe, including: memoranda by Sir Henry Strakosch on the German economic threat to Eastern and South Eastern Europe; memorandum by [Henry] Wickham Steed on the expansion of German influence in Central and South Eastern Europe and the effects of British and French foreign policy; copy of a report by Guy, Comte de Baillet-Latour, head of the Banque Lambert, on Czechoslovakia; note of a meeting between WSC,...
Dates:
19 Aug 1937 - 23 Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Economic intelligence - Ernest Meyer and Bernhard Reichenbach., 05 May 1936 - 07 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/276
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from Ernest Meyer, Doctor of Economic Science (9), and Bernhard Reichenbach (3), on supporting WSC's figures for German rearmament, particularly against criticism by Professor William Bone and Sir Arnold Wilson [Chairman, Home Office Committee on Structural Precautions against Air Attack] and on fees for their work.Also includes: Meyer's and Reichenbach's summaries and refutations of Bone's argument on German rearmament spending, on subjects including German public...
Dates:
05 May 1936 - 07 Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Economic intelligence - Sir Henry Strakosch., 27 Mar 1936 - 30 Nov 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/277
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Sir Henry Strakosch [Member of the League of Nations Financial Committee] and WSC on subjects including: Strakosch's 1935 estimate of German armaments spending; explaining his figures to 1st Lord Rennell [earlier Sir James Rennell Rodd]; a misleading article by Sir Arnold Wilson [Chairman, Home Office Committee on Structural Precautions Against Air Attack] criticizing WSC's information; criticism from Francis Hirst [a Governor of the London School of Economics] on...
Dates:
27 Mar 1936 - 30 Nov 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Germany: Military and Economic Intelligence., 22 Feb 1939 - 15 Jun 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/374
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on Germany include: Sir Henry Strakosch on Germany's spending on armaments, 1938 - 9, comparative British spending, petrol and oil consumption by German aircraft, the German oil supply and the case for destroying the Romanian oil wells on the outbreak of war (4); Anthony de Rothschild; "Edward" [Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin]; Sir Keith Price [former Council Member, Ministry of Munitions] on the capacity of explosive production during the...
Dates:
22 Feb 1939 - 15 Jun 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open