Second World War (1939-1945)
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2737 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), 14 Mar 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/58
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Minute from WSC to General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] for the Chiefs of Staff Committee marked "Secret" repeating a question from WSC to President Roosevelt and Roosevelt's reply that a British Fleet detachment was unlikely to be needed for an American operation in the Pacific before the summer of 1945. Copy. Flagged: "R".
Dates:
14 Mar 1944
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), 16 Mar 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/59-60
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Minute from General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] to WSC marked "Secret" stating that the opinion of President Roosevelt on the requirement for a detachment of the British Fleet in the Pacific should not be taken as final; but that the decision should be determined by the contribution which they could make to the strategy best calculated to bring about the early defeat of Japan. Flagged: "S".
Dates:
16 Mar 1944
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), 23 Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/6
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Copy of government paper for the Combined Chiefs of Staff marked "Most Secret" entitled "Overall Plan for the Defeat of Japan" including a report by the Combined Staff Planners and annexes. Flagged: "A".
Dates:
23 Dec 1943
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 Mar 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/64-68
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Minute from WSC to the Chiefs of Staff marked "Secret" reviewing the differences between himself and the Chiefs of Staff and stating that he feels it his duty to give certain rulings, including the maintenance of the "Bay of Bengal strategy" [as the centre of gravity for British and Imperial war effort against Japan] and the sending of a reconnaissance mission to Australia. For carbon draft see CHAR 20/188B/136-140.
Dates:
20 Mar 1944
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 Mar 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/69-71
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Telegram from Joint Staff Mission, Washington [United States] to WSC passing on message from United States Chiefs of Staff stating that they cannot agree to support Culverin [attack on the Japanese-held Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia] and urging that Lord Louis Mountbatten [later Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia] is instructed to undertake the capture of Upper Burma [later Myanmar] in order to increase the capacity of the air ferry route to China and to...
Dates:
21 Mar 1944
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 Feb 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/7
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WSC's copy of a government paper for the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the War Cabinet marked "Most Secret" entitled "Plans for the Defeat of Japan" including a resume of the "Strategic Considerations leading up to the Selection of the Pacific Plan for the Defeat of Japan" and annexes. Flagged: "B, C and D".
Dates:
05 Feb 1944
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), 24 Mar 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/72-74
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Telegram from the Chiefs of Staff to Lord Louis Mountbatten [later Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia] passing on message from United States Chiefs of Staff stating that they cannot agree to support Culverin [attack on the Japanese-held Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia] and urging that Mountbatten is instructed to undertake the capture of Upper Burma [later Myanmar] in order to increase the capacity of the air ferry route to China and to expedite the laying...
Dates:
24 Mar 1944
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), 14 Apr 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/75-80
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Telegram from Lord Louis Mountbatten [later Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia] to Chiefs of Staff commenting on a message from the United States Chiefs of Staff [see CHAR 20/188A/72-74] on strategy in his theatre. Flagged: "W".
Dates:
14 Apr 1944
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), 16 Feb 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/8
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WSC's copy of a government paper for the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the War Cabinet marked "Most Secret" entitled "Operations in South-East Asia and the Pacific" including observations by WSC on COS (44)123(O) [CHAR 20/188A/7]. Flagged: "E".
Dates:
16 Feb 1944
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), 23 Feb 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188A/9-12
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WSC's copy of a government paper for the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the War Cabinet marked "Most Secret" entitled "South East Asia - Future Operations" including copies of minutes from WSC to the Chiefs of Staff Committee; Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] to WSC; and a memorandum from Esler Dening [Chief Political Adviser to the Supreme Commander South East Asia]. Flagged: "F".
Dates:
23 Feb 1944
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 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188B/81-83
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Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Sir John Dill [Representative of the British Chiefs of Staff in Washington, United States] marked "personal and most secret" emphasising that there is no question at that time of diverting forces from Upper Burma [later Myanmar] for Culverin [attack on the Japanese-held Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia]; and informing him that he has heard that General Orde Wingate [Commander of Special Force, India Command] is missing and probably dead, calling the news...
Dates:
28 Mar 1944
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 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188B/84-88
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Minute from Chiefs of Staff to WSC marked "Private and Top Secret" explaining that they have not committed themselves to any fixed strategy in the Far East and stating their reasons for preferring the "South West Pacific" to the "Bay of Bengal" policy [as the centre of gravity for British and Imperial war effort against Japan]. Flagged: "Y". Copy of CHAR 20/188B/128-132.
Dates:
28 Mar 1944
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), 27 Apr 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188B/89-95
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WSC's copy of a government paper for the War Cabinet marked "Top Secret" entitled "Plans for the defeat of Japan" including minutes of a Staff Conference on 8 April attended by WSC, Major General Albert Wedemeyer [Deputy Chief of Staff under Mountbatten], South East Asia Command officers and the Directors of Plans, which decided that reports should be prepared on Simeulue [Indonesia] and other islands of the Malay barrier as air bases; various implications of the capture and maintenance of...
Dates:
27 Apr 1944
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 Apr 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188B/96-116
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WSC's copy of a government paper for the Principal Administrative Officers Committee of the War Cabinet marked "Top Secret" entitled "Potentialities of India as a base" including a report to the Chiefs of Staff by the Principal Administrative Officers concluding that risks would be involved in using India as a base for the full programme required by the "Bay of Bengal" strategy [as the centre of gravity for British and Imperial war effort against Japan]. Flagged: "AA".
Dates:
21 Apr 1944
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 Apr 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188B/117-127
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Copy of a government paper for the Joint Administrative Planning Staff of the War Cabinet marked "Top Secret" entitled "Shipping Implications of Far East Strategies" including a report by the Joint Administrative Planning Staff concluding that an examination of the shipping cost showed it to be approximately the same for either the "Bay of Bengal" or "Pacific" Strategies [as the centre of gravity for British and Imperial war effort against Japan], although the latter was more costly in...
Dates:
25 Apr 1944
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 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188B/128-132
Scope and Contents
Minute from Chiefs of Staff to WSC marked "Private and Top Secret" explaining that they have not committed themselves to any fixed strategy in the Far East and stating their reasons for preferring the "South West Pacific" to the "Bay of Bengal" policy [as the centre of gravity for British and Imperial war effort against Japan]. Signed by General Sir Alan Brooke [later Lord Alanbrooke of Brookeborough, Chief of Imperial General Staff], Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal [Chief of the Air Staff]...
Dates:
28 Mar 1944
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 Mar 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188B/136-140
Scope and Contents
Minute from WSC to the Chiefs of Staff marked "Secret" reviewing the differences between himself and the Chiefs of Staff and stating that he feels it his duty to give certain rulings, including the maintenance of the "Bay of Bengal strategy" [as the centre of gravity for British and Imperial war effort against Japan] and the sending of a reconnaissance mission to Australia. Initialled. Carbon draft with annotations. For copy of final minute see CHAR 20/188A/64-68.
Dates:
20 Mar 1944
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 Mar 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188B/141-145
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Minute from WSC to General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] for the Chiefs of Staff marked "Secret" reviewing the differences between himself and the Chiefs of Staff and stating that he feels it his duty to give certain rulings, including the maintenance of the "Bay of Bengal strategy" [as the centre of gravity for British and Imperial war effort against Japan] and the sending of a reconnaissance mission to Australia. Initialled. Carbon draft with...
Dates:
19 Mar 1944
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] [Mar] [1944]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/188B/146-148
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Draft notes for minute from WSC to General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]. See CHAR 20/188B/141-145.
Dates:
[19] [Mar] [1944]
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), 07 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71A/98
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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander- in-Chief, India, to WSC regarding the situation in Burma [later Myanmar]: comments on lack of communication with General Harold Alexander [General Officer Commanding, Burma], and on the decision to abandon Rangoon.
Dates:
07 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 08 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71A/99
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Telegram from WSC to Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] regarding India: believes that the timing of a declaration will be affected by Allied defeats in the Far East and the imminent fall of Rangoon [Burma, later Myanmar]; comments on the ignorance of Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek [Chinese Nationalist Leader] about Indian affairs; believes that the Indian Congress will reject the proposals.
Dates:
08 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 08 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/101-104
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Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding military arrangements by the United States: comments on problems facing United States; comments on naval deployment in the ANZAC [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] region; comments on the strong Japanese position in the Pacific and its implications; describes plans to send American reinforcements to Australia, New Zealand and the South West Pacific; details arrangements to supply shipping to move two...
Dates:
08 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 09 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/112
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Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in- Chief, Middle East, to WSC refusing to leave the Middle East and delegate authority "while strategical situation is so fluid and liable to rapid changes"; asks WSC to reconsider his request and offers to send a senior staff officer to explain the tank situation to him.
Dates:
09 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 10 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/121-122
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Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC containing proposals for the simplification of operational Command: suggests that the United States assume all operational responsibility for the Pacific area and comments on implications for decision making; suggests that Britain assume all operational responsibility for the area extending from Singapore to India, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, Libya and the Mediterranean; suggests that Britain...
Dates:
10 Mar 1942
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(Untitled), 10 Mar 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/125-126
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin]: recites telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding American reinforcements for Australia, New Zealand and the South West Pacific [see CHAR 20/71B/101-104]; comments on plans to ship British divisions to the Middle East or India; states his belief that the presence of United States forces in ANZAC [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] area will lead to United States naval...
Dates:
10 Mar 1942
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Open