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Subjects include: conditions in the Ukraine; countering Bolshevism in Europe and Russia; the future of the Political Intelligence Department; the Baltic States.

Scope and Contents Notes from the German section of the Political Intelligence Department, for speeches by Arthur Balfour [Foreign Secretary] on subjects including: a speech by Wilhelm Solf, German Colonial Secretary, on Britain's annexation of German colonies, plans for Belgium and the actions of Romania; the future of Alsace-Lorraine and the views of the German politician Philipp Scheidemann; German peace negotiations; attempts to use Belgium as a pawn; German violations of treaties with Russia; conditions...

Scope and Contents Memoranda from the German section of the Political Intelligence Department on subjects including: the situation in Austria-Hungary, particularly the future of Hungary; a message from Count Mihály Karolyi, Prime Minister of Hungary, on the difficulties Hungary was facing; the future of the foreign press unit at Watergate House; a conversation with Otto Bauer, Austrian Foreign Minister, advising sending a British mission to Vienna with food aid to counter Bolshevik influence; the canalisation...

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The papers consist of 5 volumes of his First World War diaries and 4 files relating to his memoirs.

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Papers, letters, naval signals, reports and press cuttings concerning the First World War. On subjects including merchant shipping, food allowances, internal admiralty affairs and mine-laying. Includes petition from the junior to the senior naval ranks asking for better pay and conditions, with related correspondence; correspondence between Drax and Nabokoff on Drax's award of a Russian medal, and War Office daily review of the foreign press on the Russian Revolution.