Chemical/biological warfare
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 15 Jan 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on hypochlorite and the possibility of gas attacks. [Copy; given running number 206].
(Untitled), 13 May 1941 - 15 May 1941
(Untitled), 15 Jul 1941 - 16 Jul 1941
Minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on a note by Peregrine Churchill on concealing large establishments from the air, price control on fish landings and distribution, bomb-load figures, and production of gas weapons. [Copies; given running numbers 350, 351, 252, and 352A].
(Untitled), 10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941
(Untitled), 17 Apr 1929
(Untitled), 05 Apr 1945
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1944 - 30 Jul 1944
(Untitled), 30 Mar 1942
(Untitled), 09 Apr 1942
Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin regarding chemical weapons: states that he will issue a warning to Germany and Finland about British retaliation for poison gas attacks against the Soviet Union at the beginning of May; asks that Stalin send a specialist to explain Soviet requirements; offers to supply mustard and bleaching materials to the Soviet Union in advance of an expert's report.
(Untitled), 23 Apr 1942
(Untitled), 09 May 1942
Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin regarding convoys to the Soviet Union: outlines difficulties of sailing convoys to the Soviet Union; lists measures required from the Soviet Union to help protect convoys; states that he will be making the broadcast warning of British retaliation to German gas attacks upon Soviet Armies tomorrow.
(Untitled), 19 Apr 1943
Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal and Most Secret" stating that he has heard a rumour from Spain that the Germans are planning to use gas on the Soviet front and asking him if he would like him to renew his declaration that there will be immediate British retaliation for any gas attacks on the Soviet Union.
(Untitled), 19 Apr 1943
Telegram from Marshal Stalin to WSC marked "Personal and Secret" stating that he is happy for him to use an extract from one of his telegrams to broadcast to the British bombing squadrons and informing him that they have also heard the rumour of Germany's intention to use gas on the Soviet front and adding that he support this proposal to threaten Germany with a powerful chemical attack if they do launch a gas attack.
(Untitled), Jan 1941 - May 1941
(Untitled), 23 Feb 1941
Memorandum from Major-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to WSC] to WSC answering the complaints of Lieutenant-Colonel John Macnamara [1st London Irish Rifles Division] of 18 Feb; annotated by WSC.
(Untitled), 01 Jan 1941 - 31 Jan 1941
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941 - 30 Apr 1941
(Untitled), 12 May 1942 - 14 May 1942
Letter from John Tinker to WSC [with transcript] commenting on WSC's commitment to use poison gas against Germany if Hitler used it on the Soviet Union and recommending the use of explosives instead; annotated by WSC, with reply by Leslie Rowan [Private Secretary to WSC].