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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D - G., 29 Sep 1951 - 19 Oct 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/128A-B
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Correspondents include: Guy Schofield [Editor], Daily Mail (2); Joaquim Paco D'Arcos, Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on his lecture on WSC; John Dodge; Burnaby Drayson, on the effect on Europe had WSC stayed as Prime Minister after 1945 (2); Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party, and Prime Minister] (2); Sir Thomas Dugdale [later 1st Lord Crathorne, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries] on the effect of the Rating and Valuation Bill on racecourses, and the National Farmers'...
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29 Sep 1951 - 19 Oct 1957
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-I., Jun 1946 - Dec 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/54A-B
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Correspondents include: Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Prime Minister's salary (2); Nigel Davies on WSC's support for his candidacy at Epping [Essex]; Kenneth de Courcy; Rupert de la Bere on ex-service civil servants; Lord Pakenham [later 7th Lord Longford] (2); representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Mark Chapman-Walker and Sir Robert Cary (7); Irving Dix (United States Representative) on US political and economic affairs; James Stuart [Chief...
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Jun 1946 - Dec 1947
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence E-F (almost all material dates from 1950)., Nov 1946 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/96A-B
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Correspondents include: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (3); David Eccles (4); Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office; various representatives of the Conservative Research Department, including Peter Goldman (5); Walter Elliot on visiting Chaim Weizmann [President of Israel] and Scottish matters (2); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (4); Sir Malcolm Trustram...
Dates:
Nov 1946 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence E-G., Jun 1948 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/82A-B
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Correspondents include: Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (9) on subjects including his tour of Canada and east Asia, Spanish matters, and the Indian constitution; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (5); Alfred Edwards; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); various other representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office including John Profumo (6); Walter Elliot (2); J Edgar Walker...
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Jun 1948 - Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from and about Conservative Associations (including branches) and constituencies., Jan 1950 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/104
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Correspondents include: Nigel Colman, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office (8); various other representatives of Conservative Central Office including George Christ (8); George Odey; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (2); Rolf Dudley-Williams; Colonel Godfrey Llewellyn, Chairman of the...
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Jan 1950 - Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from Conservative Associations (including branches), constituencies, clubs and Young Conservatives, E-M., Feb 1950 - Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/120A-B
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Correspondents include: Charles Taylor; various representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office particularly Richard Greville (31); Sir Eric Errington, Chairman, Executive Committee, of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations (13); Colonel Patrick Blair, Political Secretary to Chairman of Unionist Party in Scotland; 1st Lord Glentoran [earlier Captain Herbert Dixon], President Ulster Unionist Council; Alan Gomme-Duncan; Christopher Soames; Joseph Godber...
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Feb 1950 - Apr 1955
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from members of the general public (mainly messages of support for WSC) and pressure groups at the time of the 1951 general election., Oct 1951 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/125
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Correspondents include: Thelma Cazalet-Kier, Chairman of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee; Gertrude Turquand; [Frederick] Potter, Mayor of Deal [Kent] on receiving signed photographs of WSC; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Richard Baker, founder of the Men of the Trees, on their New Earth Charter. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries including Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford].Other subjects include: equal pay for women; foreign affairs including Egypt and...
Dates:
Oct 1951 - Nov 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence G (mainly thanking WSC following the 1950 election)., Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/97
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Correspondents include: George Christ of Conservative and Unionist Central Office on British war debt; David Gammans on appealing to skilled craftsmen and colonial policy (2); Patrick Donner; Gwilym Lloyd George [later 1st Lord Tenby]; Eveline Hill; John Rodgers; Mervyn Wheatley; Cyril Osborne; Douglas Clifton Brown [later 1st Lord Ruffside, Speaker of the House of Commons]; [Robert] Thorp; "Hinch" [Lord Hinchingbrooke, later 10th Lord Sandwich and Victor Montagu]; Geoffrey Stevens;...
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Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence H-J., Nov 1949 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/98
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Correspondents include: Samuel Hammersley on the possibility of atomic war; [Arthur] Vere Harvey [later Lord Harvey of Prestbury] on the Schuman Plan and passing on a letter on Sweden (2); Antony Head on an Austrian admirer of WSC; John Henderson (2); James Henderson-Stewart; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (10); Prime Minister Clement Attlee (12); 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Edward Turnour] (2); Edward Cass [Private Secretary to the Prime Minister];...
Dates:
Nov 1949 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence H-L., May 1947 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/83A-B
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Correspondents include: Arthur Henderson [later Lord Rowley, Secretary of State for Air] on war graves (2); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (2); Stephen Pierssene [General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office]; Major George Herbert (2); Humphry Berkeley, Conservative Political Centre; Lord Hinchingbrooke [later 10th Lord Sandwich and Victor Montagu] on estimates; Christopher Hollis and Sir James Hawkey, Chairman of...
Dates:
May 1947 - Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence H-M., Mar 1950 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/115A-B
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Correspondents include: Samuel Hammersley; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (8); Roy Harrod (3); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (5); [Arthur] Vere Harvey [later Lord Harvey of Prestbury] on the supply of aircraft and equipment to Egypt; Sir George Harvie Watt and his wife Bettie; James Henderson-Stewart; Michael Higgs on his daughter; Captain Alan Hillgarth [earlier Alan Evans] on Spain; "Bill",...
Dates:
Mar 1950 - Nov 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence H - O., 30 Jul 1951 - 22 Sep 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/129A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Stephen King-Hall, Chairman, the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government, asking WSC to be the society's president (2); Roy Harrod on not standing as a Conservative candidate (2); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, on subjects including a vote of confidence in Lord Hinchingbrooke [later 10th Lord Sandwich and Victor Montagu] as MP for South Dorset, local election strategy and WSC's General...
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30 Jul 1951 - 22 Sep 1961
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence K-N (most material dates from 1950)., Dec 1948 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/99A-B
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Correspondents include: Denis Rickett [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Clement Attlee] (3); David Hunt and Paul Osmond (2) [Private Secretaries to Attlee]; Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin]; John Campbell, President of the Scottish Polish Society (5); Arthur Moyle, Parliamentary Private Secretary [to Attlee]; Douglas Savory; Edward Keeling (5) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps (3) on subjects including sending...
Dates:
Dec 1948 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence M-Q., Jan 1949 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/84A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Shenton Thomas on Malaya's [later Malaysia] war effort; Edward Mallalieu; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (7); 6th Lord De L'Isle and Dudley [earlier William Sidney, later 1st Lord De L'Isle] on a fund for the defence of Field Marshal Fritz von Manstein; Prime Minister Clement Attlee on currency for Princess Margaret's trip to Italy; Douglas Marshall (4); Moss Turner-Samuels; John Langford-Holt; Lieutenant-General Sir...
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Jan 1949 - Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence N-R (most material dates from 1951)., Oct 1946 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/116
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Correspondents include: Norman Hulbert on the National Defence Public Interest Committee; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (2); 1st Lord Layton on WSC writing an article for the News Chronicle on the Cold War; Arthur Waters, Editor, News of the World (3); Harmar Harmar-Nicholls; Allan Noble on a painting of Ernest Bevin; Sir George Paish on co-operation with the Liberals (2); John Lockhart, Secretary of United Kingdom Branch of...
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Oct 1946 - Nov 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence O-R., Jun 1949 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/100
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Correspondents include: various representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including George Christ (9); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (5); David Astor, [Editor] of the Observer; David Waddington, President of Oxford University Conservative Society, on inviting WSC to Oxford; Sir Waldron Smithers; Harry Mackeson, Deputy Chief Conservative Whip, on the recall of Parliament; Firoz Khan Noon, Governor of East...
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Jun 1949 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence on co-operation with the National Liberal Party., Feb 1947 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/65
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); James Henderson-Stewart (2); Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams, on Conservative relations with the Liberal Party; John Maclay [later 1st Lord Muirshiel] (2); 1st Lord Simon [of Stackpole Elidor]; Maclay and Herbert Butcher (joint letter); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip]; 6th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord Dalmeny]; Sir Geoffrey...
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Feb 1947 - Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence on relations with the Liberal Party., Mar 1947 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/64
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Correspondents include: Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams (20); Eliot Crawshay-Williams; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (11); representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Stephen Pierssene [General Director] (7); Clement Davies [Leader of the Liberal Party] (5); Roy Harrod (2); Reginald Maudling; Philip Fothergill, Chairman, Executive, Liberal Party Organisation; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward...
Dates:
Mar 1947 - Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence R-S., Dec 1948 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/85A-B
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Correspondents include: Count Edward Raczynski, former Polish Ambassador to United Kingdom; George Zdziechowski, former Polish Finance Minister, on the international economic situation and the Marshall Plan; Prime Minister Clement Attlee; representatives of the Conservative Research Department including R A Butler (4); Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Craddock; Antony Head; Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams (3) including 2 on her social security scheme; representatives of Conservative and Unionist...
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Dec 1948 - Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Political; Correspondence S., Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/101A-B
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Correspondents include: Walter Matthews, Dean of St Paul's, on a pre-election service; "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne] on Conservative policy towards the Soviet Union; Sir Arthur Salter; Duncan Sandys; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (2); Prime Minister Clement Attlee; Harold MacMillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] (3); Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos]; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd Greame...
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Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence S-Z., Oct 1950 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/117A-B
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Correspondents include: "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne] and Leo Amery on Cabinet positions in the event of a Conservative election victory; Sir Arthur Salter; Duncan Sandys on his visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and Marshal Tito; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (10); Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare,...
Dates:
Oct 1950 - Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence T-Z., Jan 1949 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/86A-B
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Correspondents include: Ernest Taylor; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] on Ivor Thomas [later Ivor Bulmer-Thomas]; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (4); Sir Herbert Thompson on the Indian civil service and police; R Robinson, Lord Mayor of Cardiff, on matters including the Tonypandy riots [Glamorgan, Wales] and naming a road after WSC (7); representatives of the Conservative Research Department...
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Jan 1949 - Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence T-Z., Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/102A-B
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Correspondents include: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (3); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (6); various representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office including George Christ (14); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (11); Sir [James] Clifford Tozer on Plymouth [Devon] Fair; Moss Turner-Samuels; Julius Holmes [Minister,...
Dates:
Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence with Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith, and Violet, Lady Bonham-Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]., Jan 1950 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/111
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Other correspondents include: Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter; Colonel James Whitehead (2); Colonel Sir Gilbert Tanner, President, Colne Valley [Yorkshire] Conservative Association; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (2); Brendan Bracken. Also includes notes and...
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Jan 1950 - Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: drafts for the Conservative Party manifesto for the October 1951 election., Sep 1951 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/122
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Includes: annotations and notes by WSC on draft pages of the manifesto, and the policy statement, "Britain: Strong and Free"; October 1950 National Bank of New York [United States] monthly letter; Conservative Research Department paper; correspondence from R A Butler.Subjects covered include: economic affairs including taxation; the constitution; nationalised industries; the rearmament programme including the introduction of an excess profits tax; Commonwealth and foreign relations including...
Dates:
Sep 1951 - Oct 1951
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