Second World War (1939-1945)
Found in 2737 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 06 May 1945
Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to WSC marked "Personal" reporting that the situation in Denmark is calm; detailing troops and equipment he has sent there; and stating that he believes that Admiral Karl Doenitz [Head of the German Government] will very soon "surrender everything to the Allies".
(Untitled), 05 May 1945
Telegram from [Admiral] P Voulgaris, Prime Minister of Greece, (Athens) to WSC (10 Downing Street) congratulating the armies under the command of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [later 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis, Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre] on behalf of the people of Greece on the Allied victory in Italy and commenting on Greece's involvement.
(Untitled), 05 May 1945
Telegram from [Admiral] P Voulgaris, Prime Minister of Greece, to WSC (10 Downing Street) congratulating the armies under the command of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [later 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis, Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre] on behalf of the people of Greece on the Allied victory in Italy and commenting on Greece's involvement. [Carbon copy].
(Untitled), [May] [1945]
Telegram from George Kyriakos, a member of the Academy of Athens [Greece], to WSC congratulating him on victory in Europe and commenting on Greece's role in the conflict against Germany and Italy. [Carbon copy].
(Untitled), 11 May 1945
Letter from Maximilian Lobkowicz [Czechoslovakian Ambassador to Great Britain] (Czechoslovak Embassy, 8 Grosvenor Place [London]) to WSC conveying a delayed message from [Dr Eduard] Benes [President of Czechoslovakia, later Czech Republic and Slovakia] on the victory of the Allied Armies in Italy. [signed].
(Untitled), 26 Feb 1945
Telegram from WSC to Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa marked "Top Secret and Personal" summarising the major operational decisions reached at the Malta and Yalta [Soviet Union] Conferences: on the U-boat War; operations in North West Europe; strategy in the Mediterranean; operations in the Pacific Area and South East Asia Command; estimating dates for the end of the war against Germany and Japan; and explaining the shipping position. Photocopy.
(Untitled), 09 Mar 1945
Telegram from WSC to General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] marked "personal and Top Secret" congratulating him on the great victory won by the armies under his command [achieving a bridgehead over the Rhine at Remagan, Germany]. Photocopy.
(Untitled), 10 Mar 1945
Telegram from General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] to WSC thanking him for the warmth of his congratulations on the latest advances; and explaining how attracting sizable German formations to meet the attack launched by 21st Army Group has left the Germans vulnerable to attack elsewhere. Photocopy.
(Untitled), 17 Mar 1945
(Untitled), 20 Mar 1945
Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] marked "Personal and Top Secret" hoping he will agree that the British and Canadian Bomber Force accept an offer from the American Air Force of a suitable area in the valley of the Cagayan in Northern Luzon [Philippines] as a base for operations against the Japanese.
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1945
Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal, Private and Top Secret" requesting he give his personal attention to the matter of [repatriating] British prisoners of war rescued by Soviet Armies; giving details of advances against the Germans in Western Europe; and suggesting that Hitler may try to prolong the war after all North Germany has been conquered.
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1945
Telegram from WSC to Lord Louis Mountbatten [later Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia] congratulating him and his "gallant Army" on the recapture of Mandalay [Burma, later Myanmar]; and emphasising that progress has been made in spite of the lack of reinforcements originally intended to have come from Europe.
(Untitled), 07 Apr 1945
(Untitled), 11 Apr 1945
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" repeating the text of a telegram he proposes to send to Lord Louis Mountbatten [later Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia] on co-ordinating operations in Indo-China with Major General Albert Wedemeyer [Commander United States Forces in the China Theatre]; and arguing that they should fully support French forces fighting the Japanese in Indo-China [later Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam].
(Untitled), 14 Apr 1945
Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" reluctantly agreeing [to the possible use of pilotless bombers against German cities]; but emphasising the limited value of such action at such a late stage in the war and the effect of retaliation on London, indicating the level of losses to the Greater London area during the course of the war.
(Untitled), 14 Apr 1945
Telegram from President Harry Truman to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" reporting arrangements agreed between Lord Louis Mountbatten [later Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia] and Major General Albert Wedemeyer [Commander United States Forces in the China Theatre], and giving his views on WSC's proposed telegram to Mountbatten on co-ordinating operations in Indo-China [later Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam].
(Untitled), 17 Apr 1945
Telegram from President Harry Truman to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that the "project concerning war-weary, explosive ladened aircraft" should not be taken further.Typescript.
(Untitled), 16 Apr 1945
(Untitled), 16 Apr 1945
Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (Washington [United States]) marked "Personal and Top Secret" repeating a report of a meeting between Arthur Seyss-Inquart [Reich Commissioner for Occupied Holland] and the Dutch Underground Movement, where Seyss-Inquart offered terms of surrender for German forces in the Netherlands.
(Untitled), 17 Apr 1945
Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to WSC marked "Top Secret" giving details of casualties in the battle for the Rhineland [Germany] and since crossing the Rhine.
(Untitled), 17 Apr 1945
Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Tunis, Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre] to WSC marked "Top Secret" giving details of the German position and recent Allied operations in Italy, indicating Allied casualties and assessing the German will to resist.
(Untitled), 18 Apr 1945 - 19 Apr 1945
Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (Washington [United States]) marked "Personal and Top Secret" informing him of the latest plans for Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to take Lubeck [Germany]; the advance to Linz [Austria]; and for the Americans to take the region south of Stuttgart [Germany] where the main German "TA" [Tube Alloy, the atomic bomb] research is concentrated. Despatched on 19 April.
(Untitled), 18 Apr 1945
Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Tunis, Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre] to WSC marked "Top Secret" giving details of latest advances and casualties in Italy.
(Untitled), 19 Apr 1945
(Untitled), 19 Apr 1945
Telegram from WSC to General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] marked "Personal and Private" repeating the text of a statement from Dr Pieter Gerbrandy [Prime Minister of the Netherlands] on the food shortages and other problems in Western Holland and indicating the Netherlands Government's attitude towards military action against the Germans; and WSC's reply stating that he is putting the matter into Eisenhower's hands.