Janus: The Papers of Leopold Amery

Churchill/AMEL 2 contains:
1	Correspondence year files
2	Special correspondence
3	Miscellaneous correspondence
4	Private and personal correspondence with Governors General, State Governors and Colonial Governors
5	Private and personal correspondence
6	"Job Hunters"

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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title	Correspondence year files
Reference	AMEL 2/1
Covering Dates	1906–1964 (The majority of files run year by year from 1918 to 1955.)
Extent and Medium	31 archive boxes

Content and context

This series contains LSA's correspondence with his colleagues and friends throughout the whole of his political career following the First World War. There are letters from most of the political notables of the time (especially on the Conservative side), both from Britain and also the wider Empire, covering an enormous range of subjects. LSA's particular interests, such as the furtherance of the Empire and Imperial Preference, naturally come up a great deal, as does official business from LSA's various political positions, especially on colonial affairs and India.

Please note that original correspondence between LSA and certain individuals was found to be grouped in particular files, possibly by LSA himself, while copies of the correspondence were distributed normally in the files for the relevant years. Letters from [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, 1911-40, were nearly all collected in the file for 1940 (AMEL 2/1/30). Similarly, original letters from Geoffrey Dawson, 1906-42, are in the file for 1942, (AMEL 2/1/34), while copies from 1918 onwards are in the relevant year files. Original letters from J L Garvin, 1904-42, are in the file for 1943 (AMEL 2/1/36), and again, copies from 1918 onwards are in the relevant year files. Copies of earlier private letters from Garvin are in AMEL 2/5).

Further information

For pre-1914 correspondence, see AMEL 2/5, while for correspondence 1914-17, see AMEL 1/3/3-7.

Churchill/AMEL 2/1 contains:

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, warning LSA that by writing as a private individual on military questions (while also Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet), he was acting improperly; Lord Curzon, Lord President of the Council, commenting on a paper by LSA on foreign affairs and on the future of Palestine (3); Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, thanking LSA for his congratulations over the Palestine Campaign and commenting on the political situation in Palestine and Syria and a proposed memorial to those killed in Palestine; (2); Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on the attitude of Charles A'Court Repington to the Supreme War Council; General Sir Ian Hamilton on the Palestine Campaign and his decision not to write to the Times on military matters (2); Lord [Edgar] Robert Cecil, Foreign Office [later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood]; Violet Markham [Deputy Director Women's Section National Service Department, also Violet Carruthers] on subjects including National Service and [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain's failure to ride out the storm [as Director-General of National Service], the death of LSA's brother [Geoffrey Amery] and the harshness of David Lloyd George's Government, particularly towards aliens (2); Christopher Addison, Minister in Charge of Reconstruction; Arthur Balfour [Foreign Secretary] on LSA's ideas on French, Italian and Japanese colonial expansion, and war reparations (2); Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, on LSA's ideas for Canada taking over the West Indies, and an alliance between the Empire and the United States in colonial affairs (2); Sir Edward Carson on conscription for Ireland and 1st Lord Milner's place at the peace negotiations (2); Lady Edward Cecil [Violet Cecil] on the death of her husband Lord Edward Cecil; Winston Churchill; Howard Corbett, Manager of the Times, on the Times History of the War in South Africa (4); 1st Lord Courtney; Lord Dalmeny [later 6th Lord Rosebery]; Sir Sam Fay on building Indian railways; "Fitz" [Sir (James) Percy Fitzpatrick] (2); Field Marshal Sir John French [later 1st Lord Ypres], thanking LSA for his congratulations on becoming Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; Rupert Gwynne, on LSA's views on federalism for Ireland; William Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia on the problem of war reparations; Richard Jebb on subjects including the Imperial Conference and the League of Nations and LSA's views on the future of the Imperial Cabinet system; Rudyard Kipling, explaining that it wasn't possible to write on the war without official interference, and on the apparent lack of control over defeatists and traitors; Sidney Low; Frederick Oliver on constitutional discussions in Cabinet over Ireland (3); Ernest Pollock [later 1st Lord Hanworth] on the deaths of his son and [Geoffrey Amery]; Charles Robertson on his biography of Bismarck; Alfred Stead on the increase of British prestige in Central and South Eastern Europe due to British control of the Danube and successes in the Balkans; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland [Head of the Department of Overseas Trade] on keeping up trade with neutral and allied European countries; Brigadier-General Sir Hereward Wake on the importance of settling the territorial question in the Balkans and the peace negotiations (4); General Sir Henry Wilson, British Military Representative, Versailles [France] on subjects including plans for 1918 (3); Frederick Butler [Deputy Comptroller-General, Department of Overseas Trade; D Zebitch, Manager of the General Anglo-Serbian Industrial and Financial Company Limited (4). Other subjects include: the Irish Home Rule Bill; reconstructing the Cabinet; the former German colonies; post-war relations with Turkey and Persia [later Iran]; the phosphate trade; communication between the Colonial Office and the Dominions; representation of the Dominions at the peace negotiations; Bulgaria.
2 files.

Jan 1918-Dec 1918

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents (mainly congratulating LSA on his appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies) include: Sir William Allardyce, Governor of the Bahamas (2); Brigadier-General Sir Hugh Baikie; Henry Birchenough; General Sir William Birdwood; Reginald Brock; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; Lionel Curtis on the British colonial section in the peace negotiations; Lord Curzon; Thomas Comyn-Platt, offering to work as LSA's Private Secretary (2); Alison Cuninghame; Violet Markham [Violet Carruthers]; Evelyn Cecil, Secretary-General of the Order of St John of Jerusalem [later 1st Lord Rockley]; Frank Churchill; Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor, Gold Coast [later Ghana]; Geoffrey Dawson [editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson]; George Faber [1st Lord Wittenham]; Sir George Fiddes [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner of Australia in Britain; Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick (2); Lionel Ford, Headmaster of Harrow School; Frank Fox; George Gooch; Juliet Glyn [Assistant Secretary War Cabinet Demobilisation Committee, later Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams] (3); Hugh Gunn; Rupert Gwynne; Edward Grigg [Military Secretary to Prince of Wales, later 1st Lord Altrincham] describing the arrival of the Prince [later King Edward VIII and Edward Duke of Windsor] in Canada; General Sir Ian Hamilton; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet] on bringing in staff of the Dominion Prime Ministers to help in the Empire Delegation to the peace negotiations, with a view to a future Imperial Cabinet Office, and on improved representation for the Dominions at the negotiations (2); William Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia (2); Clement Jones [Secretary, British Empire Delegation to the peace negotiations]; Sir Roderick Jones; John Kirwan on subjects including Australia's attitude to Britain; representatives of the League of the Empire (4); David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, on LSA's appointment; Christopher Lowther, resigning as LSA's Parliamentary Private Secretary (2); Sir Sidney Low; Pamela, Lady Lytton; Sir William MacGregor; [William] Mackenzie King, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada; Sir Andrew Macphail, on reaction to the Prince of Wales's visit to Canada; Arthur Meighen, Canadian Minister of the Interior on overseas settlement of British ex-servicemen; Sir Vincent Meredith, Chairman of the Bank of Montreal, on Empire exchange rates; Dougal Malcolm; Sir Patrick McGrath [President of the Legislative Council, Newfoundland]; George Moore; Sir Francis Newdegate [Governor of Tasmania] on subjects including Australian politics and the development of Tasmania; [William] Frederick O'Connor, British Resident in Nepal, on subjects including his recent tour of special propaganda duty in Siberia [Russia]; George Parkin; [?] Sir Gilbert Parker; Charles Parker; Edward Peacock; Michelangelo Refalo, Chief Justice of Malta; Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, Governor of Fiji, asking for immigrants for Fiji; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Strutt on his orders to help the Emperor Charles I of Austria, the desperate situation in Austria and the Emperor's hopes that the present Government could be overthrown (3); Lieutenant-General Jan Smuts [South African Minister of Defence] on the treatment of former German colonies and his concern about the future of Germany; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith]; Mary, Lady Steel-Maitland; Sydney Walton, Canadian Trade Mission in London; Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Sea Lord [later 1st Lord Wester Wemyss] on American naval policy; [Arthur] Basil Williams; Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson (2); General Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate [former High Commissioner for Egypt]. Other subjects include: Cabinet reorganization; policy on Palestine and Egypt; war reparations.
2 files.

Jan 1919-Jan 1920

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Sir Henry Birchenough; Sir Herbert Creedy [Secretary of the War Office]; J L Garvin; Margaret Lloyd George; Frederick Kellaway, Secretary, Department of Overseas Trade, on a threatened miners' strike; David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, asking LSA to act as a Civil Commissioner during a strike; Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal] on LSA acting as a Civil Commissioner; Oliver Locker-Lampson, on LSA eventually succeeding 1st Lord Milner as Secretary of State for the Colonies; Terence Macnaghten [Vice-Chairman of the Oversea Settlement Committee] on Ministerial control of the committee during Milner's absence in Egypt, particularly LSA not having enough time to deal with it; Charles Vince [former Secretary of the Birmingham, Aston, and Handsworth Liberal Unionist Association]; Hugh Thornton [Private Secretary to Milner] on working with LSA during Milner's absence; General Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate [former High Commissioner to Egypt] on British successes in Egypt and the Sudan; Prince Albert, Duke of York [later King George VI] asking LSA to send a package to Australia. Other subjects include: the Empire Tour by the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Edward Duke of Windsor]. Also includes: memorandum by LSA on the influence of the war and the Versailles Conference on the Imperial position.
1 file.

Jan 1920-Dec 1920

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents (mainly congratulating LSA on his appointment as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty and regretting his departure from the Colonial Office) include: Alfred Ashbolt, Agent-General for Tasmania; [William] Wedgwood Benn [later 1st Lord Stansgate]; Sir Robert Borden (2); Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen; Sir Thomas Bramsdon; 1st Lord Buxton; Lord Carson; James Calder, former Canadian Minister of Immigration and Colonization; Ivy Chamberlain, on [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain becoming [Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Conservative Party]; Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Sir Hugh Clifford [Governor of Nigeria] on the lack of public interest in overseas dependencies; [Ernest] Owen Clough [Secretary of the South African Branch, Empire Parliamentary Association] on subjects including South African parliamentary affairs; Catherine, Lady Courtney; Sir James Craig [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, later 1st Lord Craigavon] thanking LSA for his congratulations on becoming Prime Minister; 1st Lord Curzon, thanking LSA for his congratulations on becoming 1st Marquess of Curzon and on relations with Turkey (3); Taylor Darbyshire; Charles Davis [Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Florence Amery (to 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord Stanley]); Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck on plans for Maltese forces and French foreign policy; Julius Elias, Managing Director of Odhams Press Limited [later 1st Lord Southwood], explaining that a cartoon in John Bull was not meant as an attack on LSA; Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick; Sir George Fiddes [former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Sir George Foster [former Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce]; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on subjects including the part played by Northern Ireland in losing British naval supremacy, and LSA's political career, with Winston Churchill becoming Secretary of State for the Colonies (3); Sir Hamar Greenwood on LSA's career (2); Sir Laurence Guillemard [Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States]; Margot Glyn [later Margot, Lady Davson]; Juliet Glyn [later Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams]; William Lang; Andrew Bonar Law, commenting on the Irish Agreement; 1st Lord Lee of Fareham [First Lord of the Admiralty] congratulating LSA on a speech in Parliament (August 1921), also on sailors' marriage allowances and a visit to the Fleet exercises (3); David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, offering LSA the posts of Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty and Chief Commissioner for Supply and Transport (2); 1st Lord Long on his concerns about taxation; Sir Sidney Low; Christopher Lowther; [?] Charles Mactaggart, sympathising with LSA on being "jostled" out of the Colonial Office by Churchill; Sir Andrew Macphail; Dougal Malcolm; Arthur Meighen [former Prime Minister of Canada] on the loss of the election; Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Western Australia; Sir Gilbert Parker; Field Marshal 1st Lord Plumer [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta] on subjects including the visit to Malta by the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Edward, Duke of Windsor and an attempt to declare Roman Catholicism as the official Maltese religion (3); Sir Michelangelo Refalo, Chief Justice of Malta (2); Sir [Joseph] West Ridgeway; Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, Governor of Fiji, on disturbances engineered by India, and asking for Chinese immigrants to counteract Indian influence; Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, on the recent South African elections, LSA leaving the Colonial Office, and concerns about British foreign policy being subservient to France; Charles Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian, recalling LSA in the Balkans; Sir William Seager; Rear-Admiral William Sims; Sir Campbell Stuart, Director of the Times; Frank Smith [former Secretary for Agriculture, South Africa]; Mabel Strickland on attitudes to LSA in Malta; Sir Gerald Strickland [Leader of the Constitutional Party, Malta] on the Maltese elections; Frederick Wade, Agent-General for British Columbia in Great Britain; William Watt, on subjects including Churchill taking over at the Colonial Office and Australian political affairs; [Arthur] Basil Williams; John Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons. Also includes: certificate from King Alexander I of Greece.
1 file.

Jan 1921-Dec 1921

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Lord Burnham, commenting on LSA's work at the Overseas Settlement Committee; General 1st Lord Birdwood [General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Army in India], congratulating LSA on his Emigration Bill; 1st Lord Blyth; [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain [Leader of the Conservative Party] on the disagreements between himself and LSA over the break up of the Coalition Government (4); [Austen] Neville Chamberlain, congratulating LSA on becoming a Privy Councillor and hoping that he would become Secretary of State for the Colonies (2); Winston Churchill, congratulating LSA on becoming First Lord of the Admiralty but regretting the split between the Conservatives and Liberals, and expressing concern at plans for two new warships being cancelled (2); Sir James Craig [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, later 1st Lord Craigavon] on the boundary question, and the anti-Ulster views of Michael Collins; Charles Craig; 1st Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary, on his difficulties with Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [Deputy Chief of Naval Staff] over Keyes's "amateur diplomacy" with the Russians, and on relations with Turkey (5); Patrick Duncan, South African Minister of the Interior, despairing of Imperial foreign policy following British actions against Turkey, and the bad effect on Imperial interests in South Africa; Sir Harry Brittain; John Davies, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone]; 1st Lord Long; George Barnes; Sir Howard d'Egville, Secretary of the Empire Parliamentary Association; Sir Park Goff; Vice-Admiral Sir William Goodenough, thanking LSA for his sympathetic handling of the Navy; Sir [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg, Governor of the Gold Coast [later Ghana]; Timothy Healy [Governor-General of the Irish Free State]; 1st Lord Hewart; Sir Robert Horne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on his committee to reduce Civil Service Estimates, asking LSA to serve on a sub-committee on health services; William Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, on Australian problems with Bolshevism and Sinn Fein, the hostility of the press, and the lack of emigrants to Australia; Richard Jebb congratulating LSA on his Empire Settlement Bill; Edmund Jowett, on the Empire Settlement Bill; Henry Lewin on subjects including the Geddes Report [on cuts in public spending], the Empire Settlement Bill, the murder of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson and LSA's tribute to him (6); 1st Lord Lee of Fareham [First Lord of the Admiralty], commenting on the Geddes Report and how to defend the Navy against cuts, and negotiations on the Naval Treaty with the United States; Sir George Lloyd [Governor of Bombay, India] on the political situation and restoring confidence in the Government of India, and the problems of the Indian Civil Service; David Lloyd George, on his resignation as Prime Minister, thanking LSA for his services; Edwin Montagu; Frederick Oliver on the state of the Government, warning LSA not to join the Cabinet (3); Field Marshal 1st Lord Plumer [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta] on the Geddes Report; General 1st Lord Rawlinson, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, on LSA's proposals for a single Minister of Defence and Imperial General Staff to help unify the Army, Navy and Air Force; Sir Michelangelo Refalo, Chief Justice of Malta; Sir [Henry] Rider Haggard, congratulating LSA on his work for Empire migration; Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, congratulating LSA on becoming First Lord of the Admiralty, commenting on the new British Government and his concerns about French policy, Palestine and Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; 4th Lord Salisbury [Lord President of the Council, earlier Lord Cranborne] on his disagreement with LSA over defence; [John] Obed Smith; G M Trevelyan; Sydney Walton; Reginald Ward Poole (2); Leslie Wilson [Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip] (2); Cornelia, Lady Wimborne; Archibald Young; Sir George Younger, Chairman of the Conservative Party.
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Jan 1922-Dec 1922

Correspondence A - Z: congratulations on LSA's appointment to Privy Council in May 1922. Correspondents include: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister; Sir Almeric Fitzroy, Clerk of the Privy Council (2); Archibald Boyd-Carpenter; Sir William Allardyce; Sir James Allen, High Commissioner in London for New Zealand, also congratulating LSA on his Empire Migration Bill; Sir Alan Anderson; 1st Lord Ashfield [earlier Albert Stanley]; Cyril Ashford, Headmaster of the Naval College, Dartmouth [Devon]; Algernon Aspinall; Sir Vincent Baddeley; Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Sir John Baird; Stanley Baldwin; Sir Henry Buckingham; Sir James Barrett; Augustus Bartolo; Sir Otto Beit; Sir Henry Bax-Ironside; [William] Wedgwood Benn [later 1st Lord Stansgate]; Sir Henry Birchenough; General Sir William Birdwood; William Black [Deputy Minister of Immigration and Colonization, Canada]; Sir Rowland Blades [later 2nd Lord Ebbisham]; 1st Lord Blyth; Edgar Bonavia; Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen; Sir Thomas Bramsdon; Sir Charles Bright; Sir George Brown; Lord Burnham [earlier Harry Lawson]; 1st Lord Buxton; [?] Sir John Cadman; Sir Campbell Stuart; John Capper; Wilson Carlile, Founder and Chief Secretary of the Church Army; Sir Evelyn Cecil [later 1st Lord Rockley]; Sir John Chancellor; Sir Travers Clarke; [Ernest] Owen Clough; Sir Robert Clough; Sir Conyngham Greene; Sir Edwin Cornwall; Sir Joseph Cook; Sir Herbert Creedy; [William] Frederick O'Connor [British Envoy in Nepal] on the visit of the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Edward, Duke of Windsor] to Nepal; Sir Arthur Currie, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, Montreal [Canada]; John Darling on subjects including the Imperial Treasury Bill; 1st Lord Dawson of Penn; Charles Davis [Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Sir Howard d'Egville; Herbert Henson, Bishop of Durham; 1st Lord Emmott; John M'Whae, Agent-General for Victoria [Australia] in London; Sir Bertram Falle [later 1st Lord Portsea]; Sir Edward Stern; Raymond Ffennell; Rear-Admiral Frederick Field; Sir [John] Malcolm Fraser, Honorary Principal Agent of the Conservative Party; Moreton Frewen, on his concerns about Empire migration; Sir Harry Foster; Sir James Fortescue-Flannery; Sir Edward Garraway [Resident Commissioner for Basutoland, later Lesotho] on his difficulties with his superior [? Prince Arthur of Connaught, High Commissioner for South Africa]; 3rd Lord Gorell [earlier Ronald Gorell Barnes]; Sir Park Goff; Charles Goldman; James Grant; Sir Hamar Greenwood and Margery, Lady Greenwood; William Greenwood; Sir [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg [Governor, Gold Coast, later Ghana]; Douglas Hacking; Patrick Hannon; [?] Herbert Heaton; Sydney Henning Belfrage; Sir Arthur Holbrook; Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston; Albert Hyamson; 1st Lord Inchcape [earlier James Mackay]; Isaac Isaacs; Sir Henry Lambert; William Lang; Gerald Lascelles; 1st Lord Lee of Fareham [First Lord of the Admiralty]; Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson; Sir [Edward] Humphrey Leggett; Henry Lewin; Philip Lloyd-Greame [later Philip Cunliffe-Lister and 1st Lord Swinton]; 1st Lord Lambourne [earlier Amelius Wood and Amelius Lockwood]; Sir Sidney Low; Christopher Lowther; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada]; Sir Halford Mackinder; Sir Donald Maclean, Chairman of the Liberal Parliamentary Party; Terence Macnaghten [Vice-Chairman of the Oversea Settlement Committee]; Marchese Alfred Mattei and Marchesa Teresa Mattei; Ugo Mifsud; Harcourt Malcolm; Sir Alfred Mond [later 1st Lord Melchett]; Sir Robert Muirhead Collins; Sir Oswyn Murray [Permanent Secretary, Admiralty]; Arthur Myers; Sir Henry Newbolt; Sir Francis Newdegate; Sir Robert Newman [later 1st Lord Mamhead]; Herbert Pike Pease [later 1st Lord Daryngton]; Sir Gilbert Parker; Sir George Parkin; Robert Peel, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, St Helena; Sir Ernest Pollock [later 1st Lord Hanworth]; 1st Lord Plumer [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta]; General 1st Lord Rawlinson, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, on the lull in political agitation in India, due to the stronger line taken by the Government, and his forecast of war in Ireland; Sir Michelangelo Refalo, Chief Justice of Malta (2); 1st Lord Riddell; Sir William Ridgeway; Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, Governor of Fiji; Christopher Roundell; Newton Rowell; Lord Sandon [later 6th Lord Harrowby]; Sir Robert Sanders [later 1st Lord Bayford]; Philip Sarell, on arrangements for the war memorial at Dunkirk [France]; Sir Fillipo Sceberras; Sir Edward Stern; Frances Stevenson [Frances Lloyd George, Private Secretary to David Lloyd George, Prime Minister], asking whether LSA still had notes from the wartime Secret Sessions in Parliament; [?] Gershom Stewart; George Terrell; [Thomas] Reginald Terrell; William Turner Perkins; Philip Waggett; Sydney Walton; Sir Joseph Walton; Leo Weinthal; Sir [William] Archibald Weigall; James Welldon, Dean of Durham; Sir William Beresford-Whyte; John Whitley; [Arthur] Basil Williams, Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, commenting on LSA's proposed constitution for Malta; Herbert Williams; Sir Archibald Williamson [later 1st Lord Forres]; Sir Samuel Wilson [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Trinidad and Tobago] on subjects including having to impose spending cuts in Trinidad; William Windham; Maurice Woods.
2 files.

May 1922-Jul 1922

Correspondence A - Z: congratulations on LSA's appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty in Oct 1922. Correspondents include: Colin Smith, Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council; Sir James Allen, High Commissioner in London for New Zealand; Cyril Ashford, Headmaster of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [Devon]; Major-General Sir George Aston; Augustus Bartolo; Sir [Clement] Anderson Montague-Barlow; Sir Henry Bax-Ironside; Richard Bennett; Sir Robert Borden; Martin Burrell, Parliamentary Librarian, Canada, on subjects including the political situation in the United States and Canadian reaction to new Labour MPs in Britain; George Buckle; 1st Lord Buxton; John Capper; Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham] on subjects including the chaos between Liberals and Conservatives and the state of Central Europe, particularly France's attitude towards Germany; Rear-Admiral Sir [Alfred] Ernle Chatfield; Sir Valentine Chirol; Frank Churchill; Sir [Robert] Muirhead Collins; [William] Frederick O'Connor; Sir Herbert Creedy; [?] 1st Lord Curzon; Charles Davis; Sir [Charles] Dennistoun Burney; Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair; Captain Barry Domvile [Chief of Staff, Mediterranean], recalling LSA's reply to the Geddes Axe [on projected cuts in the Navy]; Rear-Admiral Frederick Field [3rd Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy]; Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick; Lionel Ford, Headmaster of Harrow School; Ralph Furse; Sir Hamar Greenwood; Sir [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg; [William] Lionel Hichens; [Frederick] Nugent Hicks; Alan Hotham, on keeping up standards in Dominion navies, his impressions of New Zealand and on the settlers he had brought over from Britain; William Hughes [Prime Minister of Australia]; Archibald Hyslop, former Assistant Master in Harrow School; Isaac Isaacs; Clement Jones; Peter Larkin; Stephen Leacock; Henry Lewin; [Ada] Edwina Lewin [later 3rd Countess Roberts]; Sir George Lloyd, asking why [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain had not been included in the new Cabinet; 1st Lord Long; Sir Sidney Low; Sir Frederick Lugard; [?] Sir Edwin Lutyens; Lady Isabel Margesson; Sir George Macdonogh; Sir Halford Mackinder; Dougal Malcolm; Ugo Mifsud; [Leader of the House, Malta] (2); Sir George Milne; John M'Whae, Agent General for Victoria, Australia, in London; Edward Peacock; Sir George Perley; 1st Lord Plumer, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta; General 1st Lord Rawlinson, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, on his problems in funding for the Army, and on the question of a Minister of Defence; 2nd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer]; Samuel Sheppard; Sir John Simon; Charles Smalley-Baker; 7th Lord Stanhope [earlier Lord Mahon]; Herbert Stanley, Imperial Secretary, South Africa; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland; Sir Gerald Strickland [ Leader of the Constitutional Party, Malta]; Ronald Storrs, Civil Governor of Jerusalem and Judaea; George Trevelyan; [?] William Watt [Speaker, Australian House of Representatives]; [Thomas] Humphry Ward; Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Webb [Rear-Admiral in the Fourth Battle Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet] on the role of the Navy in the Near East; James Welldon, Dean of Durham; [Arthur] Basil Williams; Sir Samuel Wilson, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Trinidad and Tobago; Nicolas Yovanovitch.
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Oct 1922-Dec 1922

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet [Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck], thanking LSA for his congratulatory message to the Fleet following its spring cruise; Lucy Baldwin; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on a disagreement between LSA and 1st Lord Curzon [Foreign Secretary]; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Beatty [1st Sea Lord] on the Cabinet's refusal to allow the Navy control of its own air forces (2); Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen on opposition to him; Winston Churchill, thanking LSA for sending him telegrams relating to naval projects which Churchill had been responsible for, and advising him not to be intimidated by the press; Sir James Craig, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland [later 1st Lord Craigavon] on the Naval Reserve in Ulster; 2nd Lord Cromer, Lord Chamberlain [earlier Lord Errington]; Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour; 1st Lord Curzon, asking LSA not to make a statement on foreign affairs and also on negotiations with Raymond Poincare [Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, France] over German war reparations, on negotiations with Turkey and also commenting on Vice-Admiral Sir Osmond Brock [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station] (5); Sir Charles Davis; 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord Stanley] on disagreements between the Admiralty and the Cabinet over control of naval air forces, France's occupation of the Ruhr [Germany] over war reparations and his concerns about the League of Nations and Lord [Edgar] Robert Cecil [President of the League of Nations Union, later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood] (6); Sir Bertram Falle [later 1st Lord Portsea]; Francis Fisher; Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick (3); J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on the attitude of the press in the General Election [January 1924] (2); Nevile Henderson, acting British High Commissioner in Constantinople [later Istanbul, Turkey] on LSA's visit to Turkey, particularly to the Caliph; 1st Lord Islington [Chairman of the National Savings Committee, earlier John Dickson-Poynder], thanking LSA for his speech in support of National Savings; Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister; 1st Lord Lee of Fareham [former First Lord of the Admiralty] on subjects including two new warships being built (2); 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Civil Lord of the Admiralty, earlier Lord Hopetoun]; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada]; Captain Herbert Meade [commander of the Naval College, Dartmouth (Devon), later Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh] on LSA's visit to the college; Arthur Meighen on forthcoming Imperial Conferences and British responsibility for Canadian defence; Ugo Mifsud, Maltese Minister for Industry and Commerce, on an agreement between Malta and Australia over Maltese emigration; Sir Oswyn Murray [Permanent Secretary, Admiralty]; Sir Douglas Nicholson [Vice-Admiral commanding Reserve Fleet]; Francis Pember; 1st Lord Plumer [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta], on Maltese gratitude to LSA for his support in their relations with Australia over emigration, and the role of the Mediterranean Fleet (2); Massimiliano Debono, President of the Malta Senate; 2nd Countess Roberts, sending LSA a copy of a prayer by 1st Lord Roberts; Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa]; Sir Richard Squires, Prime Minister of Newfoundland; 1st Lord Stamfordham [earlier Arthur Bigge]; Sir Fabian Ware, on LSA's good example in political life; 1st Lord Weir on a proposed Home Defence Air Force and LSA's suggestions for developing civil aviation; William Ormsby-Gore [Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech].
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Jan 1923-Dec 1923

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Sir Maurice Hankey, Clerk of the Privy Council; Sir Robert Borden, congratulating LSA on becoming Secretary of State for the Colonies, commenting on the November General Election and the caucus system, and on a federal system for Ireland (3); Estella, Lady Cave (2); [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on a row with LSA in the Shadow Cabinet; Winston Churchill, on subjects including a story from Herodotus, Churchill's distress at the political situation, with the Empire being damaged by party factions and LSA's support for Churchill's opponent in the Westminster Abbey division by-election (2); Vice-Admiral Sir Walter Cowan on LSA's departure from the Admiralty; Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck, Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet, on LSA's departure from the Admiralty; [Margaret] Elizabeth Edwards [earlier Margaret Elizabeth Simon]; "Fitz" [Sir (James) Percy Fitzpatrick] on subjects including how the January 1924 General Election appeared from the point of view of the Dominions and their importance when the next Election came, obstacles to Tariff Reform and how these might be eased by the Labour Party's respect for 1st Lord Milner (3); Lionel Ford, Headmaster of Harrow School; J L Garvin, Editor of the Observer; Mary Herbert on LSA's tribute to Aubrey Herbert; William Hughes [former Prime Minister of Australia] on the unsettled state of political affairs in all nations and his poor opinion of [James] Ramsay Macdonald, Prime Minister and Philip Snowden [Chancellor of the Exchequer]; [?] Norman Melland on the development of Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], stressing the need for spending on transport and education; Major-General Sir George Aston, congratulating LSA for his speech on the Singapore naval base; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Sturdee on LSA's departure from the Admiralty; Sir Ronald Storrs, Civil Governor of Jerusalem and Judaea [Israel] on LSA's appointment as Secretary of State for the Colonies; Jan Smuts on LSA's appointment as Secretary of State for the Colonies; Lady Ethel Stonehaven; Sir George Touche. Also includes: memoranda on the swearing in of the new Cabinets (January and November 1924); letters from LSA to Stanley Baldwin, [Leader of the Conservative Party], on the party's future, explaining that he would continue to support Imperial Preference, despite official party policy, and to [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on the naval Cruiser construction programme.
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Jan 1924-Dec 1924

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham], on taking up his position as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya, a vote on his salary and his work as Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees (2); Sir Kenneth Anderson; Sir Abe Bailey, supporting LSA's position on Iraq; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister; Sir Otto Beit on appointing Grigg's successor as Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees (2); Gertrude Bell [Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner for Iraq, Sir Henry Dobbs] on British representation in Iraq following the League of Nations Commission of Inquiry into the future of Mosul [Al-Mawsil], urging that Dobbs should be sent to help with the negotiations and congratulating LSA for his part in them (3); Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, congratulating LSA on the Mosul negotiations, on the Indian battalions in Iraq and on the threat to India from Russia; Sir Henry Braddon on the Australian political situation, and proposed measures to strengthen Government representation in the Legislative Council (2); Reginald Brock on the growth of foreign trade in the United States, particularly with the Pacific and the results for Anglo-Canadian trade; Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury on the Mosul negotiations; Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including of the Locarno Treaty, particularly criticism of British policy in Europe from Jan Smuts, and also on being happier as Foreign Secretary than he would have been as Prime Minister (5); 6th Lord Clarendon [earlier Lord Hyde] accepting the position of Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs; Mark Cohen (4); Sir Charles Davis [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs]; Sir Henry Dobbs, High Commissioner and Consul-General for Iraq, on the disputed border between Iraq and Turkey, the use of Kurdish troops by Iraq, internal politics and spending cuts, and finding a new Financial Adviser; William Downie Stewart, New Zealand Minister of Customs; Edward, Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Edward Duke of Windsor] on his visit to the West Coast of Africa, including the Gold Coast [later Ghana] and Nigeria, and his concerns about the health of Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of Nigeria; King Feisal of Iraq, thanking LSA for his support (2); Lionel Ford, Headmaster of Harrow School, asking LSA to join the Board of Governors and on his own departure [to become Dean of York] (2); [?] Edward Grogan; Sir [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gold Coast] on the improved prospects for trade and his separation from his wife (2); Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg; Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air [later 1st Lord Templewood] on subjects including the settlement border between Iraq and Turkey and command of air and ground forces (3); William Hughes on subjects including the future of David Lloyd George, the Australian political situation and immigration into Australia; Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Brentford]; Sir Henry Lambert [Acting Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on various colonial issues, including the situation in the Dominions, particularly on a proposed Disarmament Conference, a contribution from Ireland to the war debt, Kenya, Malaya [later Malaysia], a claim by the United States against Johor and the South African Tariff; Sir George Lloyd, refusing LSA's offer of the Governorship of Kenya (2); Dougal Malcolm; John M'Whae, on the need for a lead from Britain regarding Australia's contribution to Empire defence and economic matters; Charles Magrath, Chairman of the Canadian Section of the International Joint Commission, on land settlement in Canada; Frederick Oliver; Sir [Christopher] James Parr, Minister of Justice, New Zealand, on the need for a Pacific naval base at Singapore and agreeing with a a speech by LSA on developing Empire trade; Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell [former Governor of Fiji], on his anxiety about obtaining another post (2); Newton Rowell on his tour of the Empire; Sir Thomas Royden; Sir [Reginald] Edward Stubbs [Governor of Hong-Kong] on a strike in Hong Kong; [Ernest] Llewellyn Woodward. Also includes: Colonial Office memorandum on whether King George V or the Prince of Wales should become Colonel in Chief of the West African Frontier Force.
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Jan 1925-Dec 1925

Correspondence A - K. Correspondents include: Anatole de Monzie, French Minister of Public Works; Reginald Leigh [Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; 2nd Lord Lamington [earlier Charles Cochrane Baillie]; Elise Aubry (4); [George] Nevile Bland, Foreign Office; [?] Lucy Baldwin; Sir John Beale, on protection for manufacturing; Sir Hugh Bell, on the death of his daughter Gertrude Bell (2); Sir Henry Dobbs [High Commissioner and Consul-General for Iraq] on subjects including the death of Gertrude Bell (2); Sir Robert Borden (including a letter to 1st Lord Byng, Governor-General) on the constitutional crisis in Canada following the 1925 elections, the resignation of [William] Mackenzie King as Prime Minister and the dissolution of Parliament, and also on giving the first Rhodes lectures (5); Geoffrey Dawson [Rhodes Trustee, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on an honorary degree for Borden and on R A Butler gaining experience of the Empire (2); Sir Henry Braddon on conflict between John Lang [Premier of New South Wales] and the Australian Legislative Council; Benjamin Morgan, Chairman, British Empire Producers Organisation; representatives of the British and Overseas Agency Limited (5); Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, on aviation links between Britain and Australia; R A Butler on gaining experience of the Empire before entering politics; Henry de Satge [Ceremonial Secretary, Colonial Office]; William Bridgeman [First Lord of the Admiralty]; Frederic Creswell, South African Minister of Defence; Joseph Casgrain; David Boyle (4); Sir Walter Congreve [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta]; [John] Percy Farrar (3); Edward Warner, Foreign Office; Catherine, Lady Courtney (2); William Brown [Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade]; Sir [Victor] Murray Coutts-Trotter (2); Ruby, Lady Cromer; Lionel Curtis on the Australian constitutional system and ideas for an Imperial Secretariat, also asking for a chance to talk to LSA on Imperial matters (3); Francis Urquhart [Dean of Balliol College, University of Oxford]; Dorothy, Lady Downe; Christopher Bullock [Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air]; Richard Feetham [former Chairman of the Irish Boundary Commission] on the memorial to 1st Lord Milner and the Irish Boundary negotiations; Raymond Ffennell, congratulating LSA on his dealings with James Hertzog [Prime Minister of South Africa]; Sir Frank Fox, thanking LSA for his support; Lewis Farnell, Rector of Exeter College, University of Oxford; King Feisal of Iraq on sending his son, Emir Ghazi, to Britain for his education, and negotiations with Turkey over Angora [Ankara] (3); Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick (3); J L Garvin, Editor of the Observer, on the naval base at Singapore and negotiations with the Soviet Union and Turkey over Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq] (2); Sir Charles Greenway; Sir William Davison [later 1st Lord Broughshane] (2); Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet], on working with LSA at the Imperial Conference; Patrick Hannon on the San Paulo Railway Company buying non-British rolling stock (2); 9th Lord Bessborough, Chairman of the San Paulo Railway Company [earlier Lord Duncannon]; Fossey Hearnshaw, Professor of Mediaeval History, University of London (3); Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood], putting his name forward as a possible Governor-General of Canada; Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Hodges; Sir Douglas Hogg, Attorney-General [later 1st Lord Hailsham] on planned strike legislation; Lettice Fisher on the death of her mother, Jessie, Lady Ilbert; Richard Jebb on his book "The Empire in Eclipse" and his pessimism about the Empire; Edward Keeling; [John] Obed Smith; Sir Herbert Blain, Principal Agent, Conservative Party. Also includes: account by LSA of climbing the Matterhorn.
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Jan 1926-Feb 1927

Correspondence L - Z. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Lloyd, High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, congratulating LSA on the negotiations over Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq] and his difficulties with Saad Zaghlul Pasha [President of Egypt] and the weakened British position in Egypt; Beryl Lafone on the enforced retirement of her husband, Edgar Lafone [Chief Constable Metropolitan Police]; Edgar Lafone; Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Brentford]; 14th Lord Lovat [earlier Simon Fraser] (2); Pembroke Wicks, Political Secretary, Conservative Central Office; Dame Edith Lyttelton; David Maughan on constitutional events in New South Wales [Australia]; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada on subjects including his friendship with LSA and the build-up to the Imperial Conference; Sir Halford Mackinder; Dougal Malcolm; [William] Marshall Freeman (2); Robert Bankes [Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor]; Gideon Murray [later 2nd Lord Elibank], congratulating LSA on the Imperial Conference; Arthur Meighen [Leader of the Opposition, Canada] on his defeat in the Canadian elections; Charles Bruce; Stephen Gaselee, Foreign Office; John Morgan on his admiration for LSA's leadership in Imperial affairs; John Lockhart, Philip Allan and Company Limited, publishers, on a proposed book by LSA on Imperial economic development [? The Empire in the New Era] (4); William Brown, Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade; George Plant [Secretary, Oversea Settlement Committee] on figures for unemployment relief; Major-General Garnet Hughes; Cyril Norwood, Headmaster of Harrow School; William Ormsby-Gore [Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] on his role in the Imperial Conference, his impressions of the Gold Coast [later Ghana] and the success of Sir [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, and also on British Guiana [later Guyana] (2); Sir George Perley [Canadian Secretary of State] on the Canadian political situation (August); Ralegh Phillpotts (2); Alexander Maxwell [Assistant Secretary, Home Office]; Sir William Mitchell-Thomson [Postmaster-General and Chief Civil Commissioner, later 1st Lord Selsdon]; 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] on his impressions of Eastern Canada, particularly on loyalty to Britain, the invasion of capital from the United States, and the lack of British settlers; Christopher Bullock [Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air] (2); Sir John Shuckburgh [Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs], congratulating LSA on the Angora [Ankara, Turkey] settlement; 1st Lord Stamfordham [Private Secretary to King George V, earlier Arthur Bigge]; 3rd Lord Stradbroke [Governor of Victoria, Australia, earlier Lord Dunwich] thanking LSA for his support during his Governorship; John Taylor Peddie on his economics publications (5); Sir Robert Horne; Beryl, Lady Thomson on her impressions of Nigeria [as wife of Sir Graeme Thomson, Governor and Commander-in-Chief]; Christopher Turnor on land settlement; Robert Vansittart, Foreign Office; Sir Derek Keppel, Master of the Royal Household; A E Carlyle on the Save the Victory Fund (4); Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on exempting the Victory Fund from income tax; Henry de Satge [Ceremonial Secretary, Colonial Office] on the Victory Fund; Sydney Walton; Edward Wood [later 1st Lord Irwin and Lord Halifax] on leaving office as Minister of Agriculture; Leo Weinthal; [Francis] Stanley Jackson, Conservative Party Chairman; Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on subjects including restrictions on the rubber trade, sending Frederick Hammond to Iraq to report on railways and finding someone to report on railways in Nyasaland [later Malawi] (2); [Arthur] Basil Williams; George Wilson [former Acting Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Uganda] on Uganda civil service pensioners; [William] Basil Worsfold on writing a biography of 1st Lord Milner (9); Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams; Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams; [?] Josiah Wedgwood; 1st Lord Willingdon [Governor-General of Canada, earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] on the new Canadian Cabinet and hydro-electric development. Also includes: outline of LSA's book on Imperial economic development.
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Dec 1925-Dec 1926

Correspondence A - L. Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on his visit home, settling a question of port handling in Kenya, and his health; Reginald Leigh [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on LSA's invitation to join the Academie Diplomatique Internationale; 1st Lord Athlone [Governor-General of South Africa] on the good effect of LSA's visit to South Africa and reaching a compromise with [?] Senator Nicolas de Wet (2); Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Sir Herbert Baker on his plans for a new memorial area in Westminster Abbey [London]; Jacques Bardoux; Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India; [Arthur] Paul Boissier, Headmaster of Harrow School, on John Amery's progress; Sir Denys Bray [Foreign Secretary, Government of India]; Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia on the success of LSA's visit to Australia; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir], explaining why he could not accompany LSA on his Empire Tour and on the political situation at home (2); Sir [George] Thomas Bridges [Governor of South Australia] on the effect of LSA's visit and on his part in settling the dispute over the South African flag (2); Cyril Cameron on LSA's contribution to the Empire; Archibald Campbell; Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary] on Turkey's fear of the Soviet Union and Italy; Sir John Chancellor, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] on LSA's visit to Rhodesia, and finding a successor for Sir Charles Coghlan [Premier of Southern Rhodesia]; 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor; [Adeline] Verena, Lady Clarendon; Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Straits Settlements, High Commissioner for the Malay States and British Agent for Borneo, on the career of Bede Clifford and his own arrival in Malaya [later Malaysia] (2); Thorold Coade [Assistant Master, Harrow School] on the progress of Emir Ghazi [son of King Feisal of Iraq] at Harrow; Celia, Lady Congreve on the death of her husband, Sir Walter Congreve; Sir James Connolly; Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson], on the Times's Canadian correspondent; Sir William Crawford; 2nd Lord Cromer [Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household, earlier Lord Errington]; Sir Thomas Cuninghame; [Marie] Penelope, Lady Clementi [wife of Sir Cecil Clementi, Governor of Hong Kong] on the worsening situation in China; [John] Aubrey Edgcumbe [Private Secretary to LSA] on events in the Dominions Office during his Empire Tour, including a treaty with Iraq, child labour in Southern Rhodesia, the promotion of [David] Euan Wallace [Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA] to become an Assistant Government Whip, the Prayer Book Bill, and the Commonwealth Trust; King Feisal of Iraq, thanking LSA for his guidance; Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg; William Ormsby-Gore, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies [later 4th Lord Harlech] on subjects including China and problems with Sir Halford Mackinder as Chairman of the Imperial Economic Committee; James Hertzog, Prime Minister of South Africa; James Welldon, Dean of Durham; [Frederick] Nugent Hicks, accepting the posts of Bishop of Gibraltar and Governor of Harrow School (2); Sir [Edward] Hilton Young [later 1st Lord Kennet], explaining why he could not accompany LSA to South Africa, and on a constitution for Southern Rhodesia (2); George Hutchinson; Edgar Lafone, former Chief Constable Metropolitan Police; Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary [later 4th Lord Brentford]; Sir John Gilmour [Secretary of State for Scotland]; Sir Gordon Hewart, Lord Chief Justice; 1st Lord Lloyd [High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan], on subjects including wishing that relations with the Soviet Union could be cut, the improved situation in Egypt, the divided control of Aden [Adan, Yemen] between India and Egypt, preventing Italy from colonising the east coast of the Red Sea and protecting Lloyd's officials in Egypt (2); Sir John Cadman [Chairman, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited and Iraq Petroleum Company Limited]; William Lang [Joint Editor, the Financial News] on an article by LSA for Kinematograph Weekly on British film (3); [Ada] Edwina Lewin [later 3rd Countess Roberts] on LSA's "East and West", particularly his account of her father [1st Lord Roberts]; Ethel, Lady Lunn; Hubert Lyautey [former French Resident Génèral in Morocco] thanking LSA for his praise of a book by Lyautey on Morocco. Other subjects (mainly in letters from LSA to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister), include: naval parity with the United States; LSA's concerns about the Budget and Winston Churchill's lack of a coherent economic policy; reform of the House of Lords; the political situation in Australia and LSA's Empire Tour; the British presence in China. Also includes: notes on the Iraq Treaty negotiations.
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Dec 1926-Dec 1927

Correspondence M - Z. Correspondents include: Roderick Macleod (3); 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor, on a memorandum by LSA on House of Lords reform; 1st Lord Midleton [earlier St John Brodrick] on House of Lords reform; Howard Moffat, Premier and Minister of Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] on the death of Sir Charles Coghlan [former Premier] and on LSA's visit to Rhodesia; John Lockhart, Philip Allan and Company Limited, publishers, on LSA's proposed book on Imperial economics (3); Michael Joseph, Director, Curtis Brown, Limited, on the proposed book; George Tryon [Minister of Pensions] (2); Cyril Norwood, Headmaster of Harrow School; William Ormsby-Gore [Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] on negotiations with King Feisal of Iraq over the new treaty with Iraq, difficulties between Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] and Sir Edward Denham [Colonial Secretary, Kenya], loans to Kenya and Palestine, and the opium trade in Hong Kong; J S O'Reilly (3); Lord Eustace Percy [President of the Board of Education] (2); Sir [Alexander] Ransford Slater on his appointment as Governor of the Gold Coast [later Ghana]; Annie, Lady Plumer (2); 1st Lord Plumer; 2nd Countess Roberts; Lady Frances Ryder [Director of Dominion Students Hospitality Scheme] (2); Edward Peacock; Sir Godfrey Thomas [Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Edward, Duke of Windsor] on Lady Frances Ryder (2); Frederick Goodenough, Chairman of Barclays Bank, on funding for Lady Frances Ryder; Lancelot Storr, Ecclesiastical Secretary to the Lord Chancellor; Henry de Satge [Ceremonial Secretary, Colonial Office] on subjects including the education of Emir Ghazi [son of King Feisal of Iraq], the debate on the Prayer Book, recruitment for the Colonial Office and help for Canada (2); St Clair Donaldson, Bishop of Salisbury; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [Home Secretary, later 1st Lord Brentford]; William Snell (2); Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland [Minister of Labour]; "Enie" [? Irene, Lady Stokes] (6); 1st Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, on Governors-General being allowed home while in office; G P Tallboy on LSA's income tax (4); Dame Meriel Talbot; Harry Tapley-Soper, Secretary of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society; [Luke] William Teeling; Sir John Thornycroft; G M Trevelyan (2); Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on LSA's story "The Stranger of the Ulysses"; Frederick Hammond on "The Stranger of the Ulysses"; [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] on "The Stranger of the Ulysses"; Alexander Maxwell, Assistant Secretary, Home Office; Sydney Walton; [David] Euan Wallace [Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA] on finding his replacement and on the Prayer Book debate and the state of the Conservative Party; Sir George McLaren Brown; Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on subjects including LSA's Empire Tour, the governorship of the Seychelles, negotiations with King Feisal of Iraq, whether Sir Henry Dobbs, High Commissioner for Iraq, would stand down, the inquiry into the rubber trade, the quarrel between Sir Edward Grigg and Sir Edward Denham, the Commonwealth Trust, the Dead Sea Concession, Aden [Adan, Yemen], reorganization of the Colonial Office, loans to Palestine and Kenya and the route of the Turkish Petroleum Company's oil pipeline from Kirkuk [Iraq]; 1st Lord Willingdon [Governor-General of Canada, earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] on his impressions of Canada, the leadership of the Canadian Conservative Party and LSA's forthcoming visit (3). Also includes: memorandum on the World Educational Association.
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Jan 1927-Dec 1927

Correspondence A - K. Correspondents include: Sir Herbert Baker on his plans for a new memorial area in Westminster Abbey [London]; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on LSA's return from his Empire Tour and on his impressions of Canada; Sir Otto Beit; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden, 1st Sea Lord; Alfred Beit; Richard Bennett, Leader of the Conservative Party in Canada, on the possibility of a uniform currency throughout the Empire; Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India; Kenneth Bray (3); Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Brentford] (3); William Bridgeman [First Lord of the Admiralty] explaining why he could not keep Vice-Admiral [David] Murray Anderson [Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station, and High Commissioner, South Africa] in South Africa for longer than his appointed term; [Robert] Randolph Bruce, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir] on LSA's collected Empire Tour speeches ["The Empire in the New Era"], and his new doctrine of Empire; Reginald Leigh [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; 1st Lord Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, thanking LSA for his congratulations on his peerage; Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain] on LSA's "The Empire in the New Era"; Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on taxing match manufacturers and on an argument with LSA over William Cosgrave [President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State] (3); Sir Howard d'Egville on the Empire Parliamentary Conference in Canada; Lionel Curtis on LSA's "The Empire in the New Era" , his views on Empire co-operation, his own work "The Commonwealth of Nations" and relations between Sir Abe Bailey and Oxford University; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain on subjects including "The Empire in the New Era" (2); Geoffrey Dawson [earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on subjects including Philip Kerr, Secretary of the Rhodes Trust [later 11th Lord Lothian] standing for Parliament (2); Thomas Davis (5); Sir Francis Bingham, Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey; Herbert Henson, Bishop of Durham on "The Empire in the New Era"; Robert Vansittart, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; John Darling on the need for Britain and the Dominions to act together in finance and on his article about Empire Consols (4); Henry de Satge [Ceremonial Secretary, Colonial Office]; Douglas Copland, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Melbourne, on Darling's consols article; King Feisal of Iraq on the education of his son, Emir Ghazi, at Harrow School; Guy Fanshawe [Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA]; Georgina Fyfe (4); Robert Gilson, Headmaster of the Schools of King Edward VI, Birmingham [Warwickshire]; Frederick Goodenough, on the establishment of a hall of residence for overseas students at the University of London (4); Douglas Graham (3); Sir [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, British Guiana [later Guyana] on his arrival in Guiana and the "colossal muddle" in the system of government; Hugh Gunn; Sir Douglas Hogg, Lord Chancellor [later 1st Lord Hailsham] on subjects including the need for an extra Law Lord [letter incomplete]; Sir Ian Hamilton; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe]; James Hertzog [Prime Minister of South Africa], on LSA's "The Empire in the New Era"; [Edward] Hilton Young [Chairman of the Commission on East African Closer Union, later 1st Lord Kennet] on the commission's report; Sir Robert Horne on Canadian objections to the American slant of the Associated Press; Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air [later 1st Lord Templewood]; Sir Esme Howard on the future of Tobago; Richard Jebb on LSA's "The Empire in the New Era", and the blocking of economic co-operation within the Empire; 1st Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India [earlier Edward Wood, later Lord Halifax] on subjects including the next General Election and his respect for 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun]; Philip Kerr, Secretary of the Rhodes Trust [later 11th Lord Lothian] on whether standing for Parliament would interfere with his work for the trust; Rudyard Kipling, suggesting an inscription for 1st Lord Milner's memorial in Westminster Abbey. Other subjects (mainly in letters from LSA to Stanley Baldwin), include: LSA's concerns about the economy, particularly on Protection and safeguarding of industry, and on reform of the House of Lords; LSA's impressions of Canada. Also includes: article by John Darling on the over-valued pound; preliminary memorandum on the establishment of a hall of residence for overseas students in London.
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Dec 1927-Dec 1928

Correspondence L - Z. Correspondents include: Henry Lewin (2); Basil Liddell Hart on an article by LSA on army reform; O Louwers, General Secretary of the Institut Colonial International, inviting LSA to join the institute (3); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on a suggested honour for Major-General Charles Luard [General Officer Commanding Forces in South China]; Harry Luke, thanking LSA for his appointment as Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone; Joseph Lyons, Premier of Tasmania; 14th Lord Lovat [Parliamentary Under-Secretary Dominions Office, and Chairman of the Oversea Settlement Committee, earlier Simon Fraser] on British immigration into Canada; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] (2); Robert Mahaffy; Dougal Malcolm; [Clarence] Henry Marten [Lower Master, Eton College]; Vincent Massey, thanking LSA for his Empire Tour speeches ["The Empire in the New Era"]; Leo Maxse [Editor of the National Review] on the Cabinet's failure to advance safeguarding industry and Imperial Preference; Violet, Lady Milner on collecting the papers of her late husband, 1st Lord Milner and finding a biographer (2); Sir Alfred Mond [later 1st Lord Melchett] on his and LSA's shared views on the economy; Sir Herbert Hambling; Cyril Norwood, Headmaster of Harrow School, on the departure of Emir Ghazi [son of King Feisal of Iraq] from Harrow; Terence O'Connor; Joseph Oldham [member of the commission on East African Closer Union] on the appointment of a new Governor for Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] and the effect on future decisions about Nyasaland [later Malawi] and Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia]; William Ormsby-Gore [Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] on his impressions of Malaya [later Malaysia] and problems with the rubber industry and government, the appointment of Henry Moore as Colonial Secretary of Kenya, the health of Sir Hugh Clifford [Governor of the Straits Settlements, High Commissioner for the Malay States and British Agent for Borneo] and Sir [Edward] Hilton Young [Chairman of the commission on East African Closer Union, later 1st Lord Kennet], and Sir Edward Grigg, Governor of Kenya [later 1st Lord Altrincham] becoming difficult to work with; 1st Lord Plumer, High Commissioner for Palestine, on whether to resign over a dispute on the frontier with Transjordan [later Jordan], and on his successor, Sir John Chancellor (3); Adolf Pollinger (4); Sir Frederick Ponsonby [later 1st Lord Sysonby]; Rear-Admiral Edward Evans [later 1st Lord Mountevans] on saving the film of Captain Robert Scott's Antarctic expedition (3); Robert Vansittart, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Sir James Rennell Rodd on subjects including LSA's "The Stranger of the Ulysses" and on his impressions of Canada (3); 2nd Countess Roberts; Alfred Bossom on the film of Captain Robert Scott's Antarctic expedition (2); Robert Shackle [Assistant Principal, Board of Trade] on the Scott film; [Harold] Graham Vincent, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, on the Scott film; Thomas Fry [Private Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty]; Jacobus Smit, High Commissioner for South Africa in Britain, on becoming Administrator of the Transvaal; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour; Peter Larkin, High Commissioner of Canada in Britain; J Saxon Mills on the Rhodesian tobacco industry; Cecil Sibbett on his collection of Cecil Rhodes pictures; Sir Henry Dobbs, High Commissioner of Iraq, on the future of [Arthur] Lionel Smith [Adviser of Education, Iraq]; Geoffrey Dawson [earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on Lionel Smith; 1st Lord Stamfordham, Private Secretary to King George V [earlier Arthur Bigge] (3); Vilhjalmur Stefansson on LSA's "The Empire in the New Era"; Louis Taschereau, Prime Minister of Quebec [Canada], on LSA's "The Empire in the New Era"; G M Trevelyan on "The Empire in the New Era"; Henry White, Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford University (2); Aylward Blackman (3); Josiah Wedgwood on "The Empire in the New Era"; Charles Duff, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Geoffrey Whiskard, Dominions Office (2); [Arthur] Basil Williams; 1st Lord Willingdon [Governor-General of Canada, earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] on subjects including comments about his partisan attitude, a visit from Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary] and the tendency of British politicians like Chamberlain to concentrate on Europe rather than the Empire (4); Geoffrey Winthrop Young; [Roderick] Roy Wilson; John Woodman (2); John Davidson, Chairman of the Conservative Party. Also includes: letters between Sir Abe Bailey and the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Edward, Duke of Windsor] on funding for the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
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Jan 1928-Jan 1929

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on the report of the commission on East African Closer Union, particularly probable attempts to use the report as an excuse for inactivity and trying to avoid attacks on party lines from the opposition, and also the Government's refusal to use expert advice (2); Stephen Gaselee, Foreign Office; Sir Geoffrey Archer; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on subjects including granting Sir Hamar Greenwood a peerage (2); Sir Hesketh Bell; Sir Abe Bailey on the forthcoming General Election and LSA's departure from the Colonial Office; Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, on the Election and LSA's departure (2); Dudley Braham; Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia (2); Nigel Ronald [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary] (2); Sir William Clark, British High Commissioner in Canada; Joseph Coates [Leader of the Opposition, New Zealand] on his own departure from office; Thomas Davis (3); 1st Lord Dawson [Physician-in-ordinary to King George V] on the King's health; William Stewart on the New Zealand elections; Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, on asking the Prime Minister about a peerage for Sir Hamar Greenwood; Margery, Lady Greenwood; Frederick Goodenough on funding for the hall of residence for Dominion students in London (3); Sir Ernest Gowers, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, on tax owed by LSA (2); 1st Lord Hailsham, Lord Chancellor [earlier Douglas Hogg]; Geoffrey Fry, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; William Graham, President of the Board of Trade; Sir [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, British Guiana, later Guyana] on his decision to leave British Guiana on health grounds; Sir Edward Harding [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office] on subjects including the Oversea Settlement Department and Committee and LSA's departure (2); 1st Lord Danesfort [earlier John Butcher] (2); James Hertzog [Prime Minister of South Africa] on LSA's departure; Sir Neville Howse on LSA's Empire Tour speeches, "The Empire in the New Era"; T M Kirkwood (4); [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, on LSA's departure; Basil Liddell Hart; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun]; 14th Lord Lovat [earlier Simon Fraser], resigning as [Parliamentary Under-Secretary Dominions Office] on health grounds; Sir Henry Lunn; Sir Douglas Mawson on a scheme for hydro-electric development in New Zealand; Sir Francis Newton, High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] on LSA's departure; Arthur Eagleston [Assistant Secretary, Home Office] on 1st Lord Plumer's viscounty; 1st Lord Plumer; Cyril Dennys, Ministry of Labour (2); William Childs, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading; [Harold] Graham Vincent, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, on an appeal by Reading University; 1st Lord Peel, Secretary of State for India; Cecil Sibbett on the success of the South African Party; 1st Lord Stonehaven [Governor-General of Australia, earlier John Baird] on criticism of his staff from London; 1st Lord Stamfordham [Private Secretary to King George V, earlier Arthur Bigge] on LSA's departure; Robert Shackle, Board of Trade; Robert Vansittart [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]; Sidney Webb, incoming Secretary of State for the Colonies [later 1st Lord Passfield] hoping that LSA would continue to serve on the Empire Marketing Board; [Charles] Patrick Duff, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Roland Wilkins; 1st Lord Willingdon [Governor-General of Canada, earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] on subjects including the American Tariff Bill and LSA's departure, noting that Mackenzie King was very distressed at the Labour victory in the British General Election (2); Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on the situation in Iraq, particularly the Premier's resignation over financial and military agreements, the report of the commission on East African Closer Union and the constitutional situation in Kenya (2). Other subjects include requests for employment and honours.
2 files.

Dec 1928-Jun 1929

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Philip Allan (3); Sir [Christopher] James Parr, High Commissioner in London for New Zealand (2); Patrick Duncan; Florence, Lady Bell, recalling LSA's visit to Iraq and meeting with her daughter, Gertrude Bell [former Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner of the Iraq]; William Bankes Amery, Oversea Settlement Department; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] asking LSA to chair the Imperial Committee of the British Social Hygiene Council; Sir John Ducane [Governor of Malta] on a visit to the Malta branch of the British Social Hygiene Council; Sybil Neville-Rolfe, Secretary-General of the British Social Hygiene Council (3); Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia on subjects including the results of the British General Election and the Labour Government's decision to withdraw trade preferences; John Cator; Hugh Thornton, Second Crown Agent for the Colonies; Lionel James; Herbert Williams; John Davidson, Chairman of the Conservative Party; Sir [Robert] Patrick Gower [Chief Publicity Officer, Conservative Central Office]; John Collins; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi [President of the Paneuropean Union] on co-operation between Pan-Europe and the Empire; 1st Lord Grey, Chancellor of Oxford University; 1st Lord Greenwood, commenting on an article by LSA for the Daily Express; Sir Edward Harding [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office] on problems with Robert Hadow [1st Secretary, British Embassy in Ottawa, Canada]; William Hornell, Vice-Chancellor, University of Hong Kong, on funding for the university (3); Arthur Henderson [Foreign Secretary] on the University of Hong Kong; Campbell Hunter (3); 1st Lord Melchett [Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, earlier Alfred Mond]; Blanche, Lady Lloyd on the results of the General Election; 1st Lord Lloyd; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] on LSA's departure from office, the illness and recovery of King George V and LSA's visit to Canada (3); Violet, Lady Milner; Sir [Clement] Anderson Montague-Barlow, Chairman of the British Central Africa Company and Vice-Chairman of the Perak River Hydro-Electric Power Company Limited; 1st Lord Passfield [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Sidney Webb]; 2nd Lord Elibank, Chairman of the Perak River Hydro-Electric Power Company Limited [earlier Gideon Murray] on seeing Lord Passfield about their company's future in Malaya [later Malaysia]; Francis Pember, [a Governor of Harrow School] (2); [Charles] Patrick Duff [Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]; Sir Auckland Geddes on the Rio Tinto Company Limited; Bernard Townroe, Secretary of the British Institute in Paris [France], on the Somme Memorial Fund (2); Vernon Malcolmson, Acting Chairman, Sugar Federation of the British Empire, on LSA becoming Chairman; Sir Edmund Vestey; Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] congratulating LSA on retaining his seat in the General Election, on his departure from office and on the position of Sir [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg [Governor of British Guiana, later Guyana] (3). Other subjects include: Dominion status for India; requests for employment; requests for honours; the creation of national parks.
2 files.

Dec 1928-Dec 1929

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Edward Arnold, Edward Arnold and Company, publishers, on distributing LSA's Empire Tour speeches, "The Empire in the New Era" to schools; Stanley Baldwin [Leader of the Conservative Party] on subjects including LSA having made his position more difficult over Imperial Preference (3); Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Sir Abe Bailey; Richard Baggallay; John Davidson, Chairman of the Conservative Party (2); Sir Hesketh Bell on the report of the Colonial Appointments Committee; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on his relations with Stanley Baldwin over food taxes, the attitude of William Ormsby-Gore [later 4th Lord Harlech] over Empire Free Trade, his attempts to find a constituency, the state of the Conservative Party, [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Chairman of the Conservative Party] and Beaverbrook's support for LSA as the next Conservative leader (18); Richard Bennett, Canadian representative at the Imperial Conference; Alfred Bigland on how the Gold Standard was a handicap to trade within the Empire, and on using silver instead; Margaret, Lady Birkenhead, on the last illness of 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith]; Donald Simson, Secretary of the British Empire Service League (2); [?] Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain on the disagreement between Baldwin and Beaverbrook over food tariffs and Imperial Preference (3); Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (2); Winston Churchill (2); Phyllis, Lady Coryndon; Edmund Boyd [Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi [President of the Paneuropean Union]; Sir Charles Davis on his decision to retire [as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs]; Lord Wolmer [former Assistant Postmaster-General, later 3rd Lord Selborne]; Hastings Lees-Smith, Postmaster-General; William Downie Stewart on subjects including the political situation in New Zealand; Sir Edward Harding [Permanent Under-Secretary of State Dominions Office] on subjects including taking up his position (2); John Dulanty, High Commissioner for the Irish Free State in London; Eleanor, Lady Esher, on the death of 2nd Lord Esher [earlier Reginald Brett]; Geoffrey Faber, Chairman of Faber and Faber Limited, publishers on the publication of "Free Trade and the Empire" ["Empire and Prosperity"]; Frank Fletcher [Headmaster of Charterhouse]; Professor Henry Fremantle on campaign for South Africa's right of secession from the Commonwealth; Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on whether LSA should become Chairman of the British Greenheart Timber Company Limited in British Guiana [later Guyana] (2); Douglas Hacking; H Harris Brown; Thomas Heywood; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet]; H Higgins (3); Campbell Hunter on the Hunter Valley Oil Company Limited (4); Sir Reginald Craddock on founding the Indian Empire Society; Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Provisional Secretary of the Indian Empire Society; Sir William Jowitt on LSA's "Empire and Prosperity" (2); Richard Jebb on food tariffs; Ralph Furse, Colonial Office; [William] Mackenzie King on leaving office as Prime Minister of Canada (2); Ivone Kirkpatrick (3); [?] Edward Lascelles on a summer school of Imperial Economic Studies; Stephen Tallents, Secretary to Empire Marketing Board, on Lascelles's idea for a summer school; Stephen Leacock; Sir Roderick Jones [Chairman of Reuters]; 1st Lord Lloyd; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] on a disagreement with LSA; [James] Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, on funding for Hong Kong University from China's Boxer Indemnity; 2nd Lord Goschen [former Governor of Madras, India]; [William] Mackenzie King; Lord Macmillan; Sir Herbert Matthews on wheat tariffs; 1st Lord Melchett [earlier Alfred Mond]; Eugen Millington-Drake [Counsellor of Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina]; Sir William Morris [later 1st Lord Nuffield]; Herbert Denny, General Secretary of the Navy League; Cyril Norwood [Headmaster of Harrow School]; Sir John Oakley; 1st Lord Passfield [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Sidney Webb] on subjects including the Governorship of Bermuda (3); Sir Henry Page Croft [Chairman of the Empire Industries Association] thanking LSA for a speech on the association's behalf and on the Conservative Party's Imperial policy (3); Ralph Furse, Colonial Office; Sir James Rennell Rodd on LSA's ["The Stranger of the Ulysses"] (2); Sir Basil Blackett, President of the British Social Hygiene Council (2); [Charles] Patrick Duff [Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]; George Pilcher, Secretary of the Royal Empire Society; 1st Lord Strickland; Sir Owen Seaman; Samuel Sheppard; Jan Smuts; Charles te Water, High Commissioner for South Africa in London; Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on the Governorship of Bermuda; 1st Lord Wittenham, on the shortcomings of Stanley Baldwin as Leader of the Conservative Party. Other subjects include: requests for employment; honours. Also includes: suggested outline by LSA for a speech by Stanley Baldwin on economic and Imperial policy (February 1930); agreement between Faber and Faber Limited and LSA on the publication of "Free Trade and the Empire" ["Empire and Prosperity"]; memorandum by Professor Henry Fremantle on saving the South African mealie farmer.
3 files.

Dec 1929-Dec 1930

Correspondence A - J. Correspondents include: [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams on LSA's "Empire and Prosperity"; 1st Lord Athlone [Governor-General of South Africa] on working with LSA; 1st Lord Passfield [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Sidney Webb]; Edmund Boyd [Principal Private Secretary to Lord Passfield]; Stanley Baldwin [Leader of the Conservative Party, and Lord President of the Council] on subjects including the new Cabinet and his failure to find a place for LSA (4); Lucy Baldwin on how Baldwin had tried to secure a place for LSA in the Cabinet but had been blocked by [James] Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on subjects including food tariffs, his decision to step back from public life, Baldwin's mistakes in economic policy, Conservative plans to cut wages in the public sector and LSA being kept out of the new Cabinet (12); Sir Robert Baden Powell; 9th Lord Bessborough [Governor-General of Canada, earlier Lord Duncannon] on subjects including postponing the Imperial Conference and the overworking of Richard Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada (2); Sir Hesketh Bell on LSA being kept out of the Cabinet; [Arthur] Beverley Baxter, Editor-in-Chief and Director of the Daily Express, on being unable to take a series of articles by LSA; Sir William Birdwood on LSA being kept out of the Cabinet (2); 1st Lord Bledisloe [Governor-General of New Zealand, earlier Charles Bathurst] on relief in New Zealand that Britain would have an agreed policy on inter-Imperial trade, following the General Election, and the importance of Imperial Preference to New Zealand's food exports (2); Richard Bennett on subjects including LSA's "Empire and Prosperity"; Sir John Burdon, Governor of British Honduras [later Belize]; [Richard] Ronald Copeland; Marjorie Maxse, Deputy Principal Agent of Conservative Central Office; Sir James Carmichael [4th Crown Agent for the Colonies] agreeing with LSA's views on the Gold Standard and silver as a currency; Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on leaving the Cabinet; [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] looking forward to the General Election; 1st Lord Conway; Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on the Times's attitude to LSA; Charles Paulet, Chairman of the Automobile Racing Association Limited; 1st Lord Ebbisham [earlier George Blades]; [John] Aubrey Edgcumbe [former Private Secretary to LSA] on his transfer to the Department of Overseas Trade; George Plant, Secretary, Oversea Settlement Department (3); J H Foxley (3); Sir Charles Fielding; Sir Frank Fox on his disappointment at LSA being kept out of the Cabinet; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on trade and economic policy (7); Sir Auckland Geddes, congratulating LSA on a broadcast; Jeffrey Williams (4); John Eales; 1st Lord Greenwood; 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg] (3); Sir Ian Hamilton on the Times History of the South African War; Sir Edward Harding; Ralph Furse [Director of Recruitment, Colonial Service] (2); Professor George Henderson on subjects including his book ["Fiji and the Fijians"]; Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on Henderson's work; Lady Maud Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood]; Sir [Arthur] Reginald Hoskins, Principal, Bonar Law College; Louis Reynolds [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air] (2); John Abraham [Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry]; E J Hulbert (5); Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] on LSA being kept out of the Cabinet; Sir Hugo Hirst; 1st Lord Irwin [Viceroy of India, earlier Edward Wood, later Lord Halifax] on subjects including an article by LSA on India, and Indian participation in defence matters; Sir [Francis] Stanley Jackson, Governor of Bengal on subjects including the civil disobedience movement. Other subjects include: the political crisis (August 1931); LSA's skiing accident; requests for employment.
2 files.

Oct 1930-Mar 1932

Correspondence L - Z. Correspondents include: Henry Lewin, supporting LSA's position on tariffs (3); 1st Lord Lloyd on subjects including his disagreement with LSA on Indian constitutional affairs (4); [Herbert] Paul Latham, thanking LSA for his help in his election campaign; Sir Roderick Jones [Chairman and Managing Director of Reuters]; Sir Arthur Crosfield; Sir Robert Vansittart [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on employment requests (2); Leslie Hore-Belisha [Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade]; Walter Elliot [Financial Secretary to the Treasury]; Field Marshal Sir George Milne, Chief of Imperial General Staff; 11th Lord Lothian [Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster, earlier Philip Kerr] on deciding economic policy and his position as Secretary of the Rhodes Trust; Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd [Private Secretary to Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative Party]; Hubert Lyautey; Sir George Macdonogh on support for LSA's views on silver as a currency; [William] Mackenzie King on LSA's tribute to 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith]; Sir Halford Mackinder on LSA being kept out of the Cabinet, suggesting that he turn to writing instead; Dougal Malcolm [Director of the British South Africa Company] on subjects including the importance of Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia] following sterling, rather than remaining on the Gold Standard (2); Sir Douglas Mawson, leader of the British, Australian, and New Zealand Antarctic Expedition, on the naming of Cape Amery in Antarctica; 9th Duke of Marlborough, on helping LSA with his campaign on economic policy; Sir Auckland Geddes on currency arrangements for Northern Rhodesia; L J Maxse [Editor of the National Review]; Sir Alfred Morine; Sir George Bowyer, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party [later 1st Lord Denham] (2); 1st Lord Passfield [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Sidney Webb]; Sir William Larke, Director of the National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers on LSA's support for the industry over tariffs; Sir Roland Nugent; Sir Gilbert Parker; Lady Beatrice Pretyman on her late husband, Ernest Pretyman; Ernest Pretyman on land taxes; Sir Robert Perks (2); [John] Taylor Peddie on his committee to consider the silver problem; William Ormsby-Gore [later 4th Lord Harlech] on subjects including his worries about Kenya and saving the Empire Marketing Board (4); Sir Ernest Petter on the results of his challenge to Stanley Baldwin (2); Sir Ronald Storrs, Governor of Cyprus (2); John Rathbone; William Bankes-Amery, Oversea Settlement Department on debts owed by the Rhodesian Empire Settlers' Association (4); 1st Lord Riddell on promoting Canadian silver at the expense of South African gold mining (2); Sir John Simon [Foreign Secretary] asking if LSA would serve on the League of Nations Commission of Enquiry into the dispute between China and Japan over Manchuria [Manchow, China] and regretting that he was not in the Cabinet (3); Jan Smuts; Sir Leslie Scott; 1st Lord Sankey [Lord Chancellor] on his concerns about India (2); Sir Josiah Stamp on LSA's views on monetary policy; Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies]; "Jim" [7th Lord Stanhope, earlier Lord Mahon]; James Thomas [Secretary of State for the Colonies and Dominions] asking LSA to continue as a member of the Empire Marketing Board; Admiral Sir Frederick Field, 1st Sea Lord (2); Christopher Turnor; 1st Lord Willingdon [earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] on becoming Viceroy of India; [David] Euan Wallace, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA, regretting that he was not in the Cabinet; Chaim Weizmann [President of the World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine] on the unrealistic attitude of the Zionists and on working with LSA; Sir [Edward] Hilton Young [later 1st Lord Kennet] asking LSA to chair the Iraq Currency Board and on his concerns about the political situation (2).
2 files.

Jan 1931-Dec 1931

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] disapproving of LSA's attending the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa [Canada] as representative of the Chamber of Agriculture, and on iron and steel duties (2); 9th Lord Bessborough [Governor-General of Canada, earlier Lord Duncannon] on the benefits to Canada from the Ottawa Conference and British debt payments to the United States; Sir William Birdwood, regretting that neither LSA nor Winston Churchill had become Secretary of State for Air; 1st Lord Baden-Powell; Sir [Henry] Robert Brooke-Popham, Commandant, Imperial Defence College, thanking LSA for a lecture; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on subjects including LSA's presence at Ottawa and their differences over meat duties (2); John Collier; Walter Elliot [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries]; 1st Lord Greenwood, warning LSA to be cautious in leading the Imperial movement and on his concerns about the Ottawa Conference (2); [Frederick] Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Gibraltar; Douglas Hacking [Chancellor of the Primrose League] thanking LSA for a speech to the league; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] thanking LSA for his new book ["A Plan of Action"]; Rudyard Kipling; Walter Lefroy, Editor of Canada weekly illustrated (2); Henry Lewin; 1st Lord Lloyd on the Ottawa Conference and on LSA's concerns over John Amery's affairs; 1st Lord Selsdon [earlier Sir William Mitchell-Thomson]; [?] Field Marshal Sir George Milne [Chief of Imperial General Staff] on Cabinet reform; Violet, Lady Milner (4); Dudley Myers, Conservative Central Office, on how he was inspired by LSA; Francis Pember [retiring Warden of All Souls College, Oxford University]; Alexander Ramsay; 2nd Countess Roberts; Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell [Governor of Southern Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe] on the Rhodesian situation; Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Sir Henry Strakosch [Delegate of India, Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa] on LSA's comments about the Ottawa Conference, and the inability of Montagu Norman [Governor of the Bank of England] to understand the economic position; Jan Smuts on subjects including how the hostility between Japan and China at the League of Nations Disarmament Conference was discrediting the League, the South African Government's folly in tying the economy to the Gold Standard and the battle between sterling and the dollar (2); Sir Stephen Tallents [Secretary to the Empire Marketing Board] (2); Sir Fabian Ware; Sir William Watson; James Welldon, Dean of Durham; Sir Francis Younghusband on funding for a new expedition; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]. Also includes: memorandum by LSA for Stanley Baldwin on the tactical approach at the Ottawa Conference; notes and reflections on Ottawa.
2 files.

Jan 1932-Dec 1932

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Willey]; Eduard Benes [Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs] on LSA's views about the Little Entente and its part in the pacification of Central Europe; 1st Lord Bridgeman; Sir Robert Borden on maintaining Commonwealth unity and reaction in Canada to the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa; Sir George McLaren Brown on the dramatic ["New Deal"] economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States]; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain on subjects including debt payments to the United States and LSA's proposals for the Imperial Sterling Area (3); Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain]; 1st Lord Charnwood [earlier Godfrey Benson]; Lionel Curtis on his sympathy for LSA [? about John Amery]; [David] John Colville [Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, later 1st Lord Clydesmuir]; Sir Kinahan Cornwallis [Adviser to Ministry of Interior, Iraq Government] on the peaceful situation in Iraq; John Capper; Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on Times criticism of the ["New Deal"] economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt; St Clair Donaldson, Bishop of Salisbury; Emir Ghazi on the death of his father, King Feisal of Iraq (2); Sir Ian Hamilton; Sir Charles Harris recalling the First World War Midleton Committee on the Territorial Army (3); James Hertzog, Prime Minister of South Africa on the success of a policy of co-operation between Dutch and English-speaking South Africans; Sir Francis Humphrys [British Ambassador to Iraq] on the death of King Feisal; J L Garvin on the dangers of German rearmament; Richard Jebb; Enid, Lady Jones (2); Sir Roderick Jones [Chairman and Managing Director of Reuters] on subjects including suppressing a story on LSA's personal affairs [? about John Amery] (3); 2nd Lord Lytton on the death of his son and on [?] LSA's troubles with John Amery; Enid Moberly Bell; Violet, Lady Milner; 1st Lord Rennell [earlier James Rennell Rodd]; Jan Smuts on the economic chaos in the United States and Europe, and improved situation in South Africa (2); Sir Stephen Tallents [Secretary to Empire Marketing Board]; James Thomas [Secretary of State for the Dominions] on the dissolution of the Empire Marketing Board; James Welldon [former Headmaster of Harrow School] recalling LSA's career at Harrow; [Arthur] Basil Williams; Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on his decision to retire; Josiah Wedgwood; [David] Euan Wallace. Also includes: memoranda on Sir Roderick Jones.
1 file.

Jan 1933-Dec 1933

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Sir John Arkwright; Stanley Baldwin [Leader of the Conservative Party] on LSA taking over the Oxford University constituency and on articles by LSA (2); Sir Reginald Banks; Jacques Bardoux; Richard Bennett [Prime Minister of Canada] on visiting LSA; Sir Henry Birchenough on the Empire Economic Relations Professorship at the University of London; Mabel, Lady Birchenough; Sir Basil Blackett [President, British Social Hygiene Council] on LSA's work for the council; George Buckle; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain; Demetrius Caclamanos; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury; Winston Churchill, on subjects including thanking LSA for a book review (2); Margaret Cochrane; Lionel Curtis; John Coatman [Professor of Imperial Economic Relations, University of London] (2); Estella, Lady Cave (2); Lord Carson; Sir Evelyn Cecil [later 1st Lord Rockley; Harold Dale; 1st Lord Southborough [earlier Francis Hopwood] (3); James Thomas [Secretary of State for the Dominions]; Rear-Admiral Sir Barry Domville; Sir William Firth, [Chairman and Managing Director of] Richard Thomas and Company Limited, Steel Sheet and Tinplate Manufacturers, on the urgent need to reform the industry; Walter Elliot (2); Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on whether LSA should move a resolution to stop discussions on India until after the report of the Select Committee on India; 1st Lord Ernle [earlier Rowland Prothero] (2); J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on subjects including LSA's "The Stranger of the Ulysses", his own biography of Joseph Chamberlain and the advantages of an inner Cabinet (6); Sir George Hamilton; Sir Samuel Hoare [Secretary of State for India, later 1st Lord Templewood] on the India debate, attacks from Winston Churchill, the Committee of Privileges hearing of evidence submitted to the Select Committee on India, and the future of the Assyrians (6); William Croft [Private Secretary to Hoare]; William Hughes, Australian Minister for Health and Repatriation; Rudyard Kipling; 13th Lord Leven [earlier Archibald Leslie-Melville]; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun]; Sir Henry Lunn; Hubert Lyautey; Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd] on subjects including anti-Dominion feeling; [William] Mackenzie King, thanking LSA for his "The Stranger of the Ulysses" and on his meeting with the Amerys (2); Michael Maclagan; Andre Maurois on Julian Amery winning a French prize; Rear-Admiral Gilbert Stephenson, General Secretary of the Navy League, inviting LSA to become a trustee of the league and on a speech by LSA (2); Cyril Norwood, Headmaster of Harrow School; Sir Godfrey Thomas [Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Edward, Duke of Windsor]; Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London] on protection for British meat producers; Lord Eustace Percy on LSA's ideas for Cabinet review, disagreeing with his proposal for a much smaller Cabinet; 1st Lord Rennell [earlier James Rennell-Rodd] on subjects including LSA's "The Stranger of the Ulysses" (3); Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell [Governor of Southern Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe]; 1st Lord Stonehaven [Chairman of the Conservative Party] on a speech by LSA at Southend [Essex] which appeared to attack Stanley Baldwin (2); 1st Lord Sankey [Lord Chancellor] on a case being brought against the Pearl Insurance Company by the South African Government, where judgement had been overturned by the Privy Council (3); Jan Smuts on the improving economic position in South Africa, his hopes for the international situation and the Pearl Insurance Company case (2); Sir Walford Selby [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna, Austria] on subjects including disarmament talks, helping the cause of Austrian independence and LSA's visit to Vienna (3); Oliver Stanley; Sir Ronald Storrs [Governor of Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia] on his retirement from failing health; Sir Frank Swettenham on his concerns for the future of Ceylon and Malaya [later Sri Lanka and Malaysia]; William Downie Stewart on subjects including the dangerous ideas of Lord [Edgar] Robert Cecil [later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood] and Canada's refusal to support the British Navy; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]; Sir Arthur Wauchope [High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Palestine and Trans-Jordania] on uncontrolled Jewish immigration into Palestine and friction with the Arabs over employment; Sir Hereward Wake (2); James Welldon; [Arthur] Basil Williams on his article on 1st Lord Milner for the Dictionary of National Biography. Also includes: notes and corrections by LSA for the Dictionary of National Biography entry on 1st Lord Milner.
2 files.

Jan 1934-Dec 1934

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Julian Amery; Vera Astley-Rushton on the death of her husband Edward Astley-Rushton; Stanley Baldwin, thanking LSA for his book ["The Forward View"]; Jacques Bardoux on subjects including Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on the case for isolationism; Richard Bennett, Canadian Leader of the Opposition, on his defeat in the Canadian elections; Sir Henry Birchenough; Sir William Birdwood on subjects including putting LSA forward to become Secretary of State for Defence, a campaign started by 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Harold Harmsworth] to hand back Germany's colonies and differences between LSA and Winston Churchill as future leaders (4); [Cecil] Maurice Bowra on LSA's ["The Stranger of the Ulysses"]; Mary Booth (3); Robert Brand (3); Robert Taschereau (4); Caroline, Lady Bridgeman on the death of 1st Lord Bridgeman; Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch; 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [Governor-General of Canada, earlier John Buchan] on LSA's ["The Forward View"], Imperial co-operation, the Canadian Cabinet and the British General Election; 1st Lord Hore-Belisha [letter incomplete]; Demetrius Caclamanos; 5th Lord Clanwilliam, Secretary of the Carlton Club [earlier Lord Dromore]; Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on responsibility for tariff levels and the Most Favoured Nation clause (2); [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain; Sir Arthur Colefax; Ian Colvin; 2nd Lord Cromer, Lord Chamberlain [earlier Lord Errington]; 1st Lord Southborough [earlier Francis Hopwood]; James Thomas [Secretary of State for the Dominions]; Professor John Dobson, Vice-President of the Classical Association; John Dulanty, High Commissioner for the Irish Free State in London; Sir Bryan Fell; J L Garvin, Editor of the Observer, on campaigning with LSA (3); Sir Francis Goodenough; Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham]; H A Gwynne [Editor of the Morning Post] on the review of LSA's "The Forward View" and his concern about the international situation; Major-General Robert Haining [Commandant Imperial Defence College] thanking LSA for a speech; Sir Charles Harington; James Hertzog [Prime Minister of South Africa]; 1st Lord Hewart; 1st Lord Hirst (2); Sir Samuel Hoare [Secretary of State for India, then Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Templewood] on LSA's report into India-Burma Finance and the Burma Arbitration Tribunal, also on the disagreement between them over the Abyssinia Crisis (4); Lady Maud Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood] (2); William Inge; Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (2); Lord Halifax, Secretary of State for War [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] (2); V Jabotinsky (3); Aline, Lady Jackson, on LSA's tribute to Sir Frederick Jackson; Richard Jebb (3); Rudyard Kipling on LSA's ["The Stranger of the Ulysses"] and "The Forward View" and on his fears about Britain's weakness; Basil Liddell Hart; [William] Mackenzie King [Canadian Leader of the Opposition] on subjects including the possible resignation of Richard Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada (3); Dougal Malcolm; Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, thanking LSA for his "The Forward View" and observing the favourable view of Italy and Fascism in the book; Sir Harry McGowan; Sir Terence O'Connor; Dame Edith Antrobus, Secretary of the Overseas Nursing Association; Francis Pember; 1st Lord Rennell [earlier James Rennell Rodd]; representatives of Pennington and Son (7); Sir John Simon on subjects including Italy's breach of the League of Nations by the invasion of Abyssinia (2); Jan Smuts on subjects including the Abyssinia Crisis, the British political situation, the resurgence of David Lloyd George and the economic position of the United States (2); Mary, Lady Steel-Maitland on the death of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland (2); Sir Stephen Tallents on the Government's failure to expand LSA's ideas on Empire development and also the failure of domestic Government publicity; Josiah Wedgwood; [Arthur] Basil Williams, thanking LSA for his help on his Dictionary of National Biography entry for 1st Lord Milner; 1st Lord Willingdon [Viceroy of India, earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] on subjects including the Abyssinian Crisis and the political situation in India; Sir Arnold Wilson on faults in Foreign Office sources of information; Sir Henry Wilson; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour] on his reasons for turning down a post in the Cabinet (2); [John] Evelyn Wrench on LSA's ["The Forward View"]; Sir Edward Hilton Young [later 1st Lord Kennet] (3); 2nd Lord Zetland [Secretary of State for India, earlier Lord Ronaldshay].
2 files.

Jan 1935-Dec 1935

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Harold Armstrong on the history of the South African War, particularly ill-treatment of pro-British Boers (2); Mary Arnold-Forster; Cyril Bailey [President of the Classical Association]; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on subjects including thanking LSA for his sympathy during the Abdication Crisis (4); Jacques Bardoux on subjects including the Franco-Soviet Pact and the crisis in Europe over Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] (4); 2nd Lord Beatty [earlier Lord Borodale] on the death of his father, 1st Lord Beatty; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on his isolationism campaign (2); Sir Robert Borden; Martin Burrell, Parliamentary Librarian, Canada on LSA's "The Forward View", his address on the Odyssey and the Canadian political situation; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury; [Emily] Sophia Capper on the death of John Capper; Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham] on the death of James Carruthers; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, thanking LSA for "The Forward View" and commenting on his sympathy for policies limiting Britain's commitments in Europe; Geoffrey Dawson [earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on LSA's address on the Odyssey; Sir Arthur Evans; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on the case for Cabinet reform and removing Stanley Baldwin, the state of Europe and the Joseph Chamberlain centenary (4); [Robert] Cary Gilson; Dino Grandi [Italian Ambassador to Britain] (2); John Hammond; Sir Patrick Hannon; Lady Maud Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood]; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] on subjects including his decision to return to the Government as First Lord of the Admiralty, following the Abyssinia Crisis, and his regret that LSA was not in the new Cabinet (3); Sir Roderick Jones [Chairman and Managing Director of Reuters] on LSA's address on the Odyssey and John Amery's departure from Reuters (2);. Henry Lewin on suggestions that he should become Governor of Kenya and sympathising with LSA at being left out of the Cabinet (2); Sir Reginald Poole, Solicitor, Lewis and Lewis (2); Basil Liddell Hart; Alexander Lindsay, Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University; 7th Lord Londonderry [earlier Lord Castlereagh] on his concerns about foreign policy and mistaken views of Germany; Sir Walter Ludlow; Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs]; Sir Philip Macdonell; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] (3); Robert Menzies on LSA's "The Forward View"; [George] Gilbert Murray; Robert Brand (3); Edgar Record [Editor of the Birmingham Post] (2); 1st Lord Rennell [earlier James Rennell Rodd] on LSA's address on the Odyssey; Sir John Simon on LSA's address on the Odyssey; Jan Smuts on alternatives to collective security and the League of Nations and British policy in Palestine; Edgar Stogdon on subjects including LSA's address on the Odyssey (2); G M Trevelyan on LSA's address on the Odyssey; 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [Governor-General of Canada, earlier John Buchan] on subjects including the Abdication Crisis, stopping Winston Churchill's power for mischief and Stanley Baldwin's faults as a party leader (5); Sir Arthur Wauchope [High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Palestine and Trans-Jordania] on LSA's proposed voting system in the Palestinian Legislative Council and strains between the Arab and Jewish communities; 1st Lord Willingdon [earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas].
2 files.

Jan 1936-Dec 1936

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Joe Amery (3); Harold Armstrong; Mary Arnold-Forster; 1st Lord Baden-Powell; Sir Abe Bailey; Stanley Baldwin (2); Richard Bennett [Canadian Leader of the Opposition] on the proposed Anglo-American trade treaty; Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London] on the Imperial Conference; Edward Keeling, Secretary of the British School of Archæology in Iraq, inviting LSA to become President of the school; James Butler; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] on the death of Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, not including LSA in his Cabinet and progress with Italy and Germany (4); Bertram Christian, publisher (3); Winston Churchill; 6th Lord Clarendon [outgoing Governor-General of South Africa, earlier Lord Hyde] on the appointment of Sir Patrick Duncan to succeed him; Sir Courtauld Thomson; Patrick Donner, regretting that he had come into conflict with LSA over India; T Drummond Shiels; [Alfred] Duff Cooper, Secretary of State for War [later 1st Lord Norwich]; [?] Blanche Dugdale on a proposed partition of Palestine; Herbert Fisher; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on the view that the Empire was overstretched, and the death of Sir Austen Chamberlain (2); Count Dino Grandi [Italian Ambassador to Britain] (2); 1st Lord Greenwood; Lord Halifax [earlier 1st Lord Irwin and Edward Wood]; Sir Ian Hamilton; James Hertzog (2); Isabel Hutton; the Sultan of Johore; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] on subjects including the Canadian Parliament's resolution of loyalty to King George VI and King's view that his policies should not be seen as the result of pressure from Britain, particularly in relation to defence spending, also on recognition of the achievements of Stanley Baldwin and [James] Ramsay MacDonald and a lack of unity among provincial Canadian premiers (3); [Frederick] Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln on [?] money owed by John Amery (2); 7th Lord Londonderry [earlier Lord Castlereagh] on a press report saying that there was a difference between himself and LSA on territory being transferred to Germany and on German colonial claims (2); John Lowther [Private Secretary to George, Duke of Kent]; Sir Claud Schuster [Vice-President of the Alpine Club] on proposing Arnold Lunn for membership of the Alpine Club (2); Arnold Lunn; John Macnaughton; Robert Menzies; Violet, Lady Milner (2); Henry Morton; [George] Gilbert Murray on German ambitions being centred on Europe rather than colonies; Alfred Noyes on LSA's books, "The Stranger of the Ulysses" and "The Forward View"; Francis Pember; the Sultan of Perak; Charles Rey, Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate [later Botswana] on the success of his work in Bechuanaland and retirement (2); Jan Smuts on subjects including the friendly attitude of Adolf Hitler towards Britain, how to deal with Germany's ambitions in Central and Eastern Europe, the need for a close association with the United States, Japan's victory over China and the results for the Empire, the partition of Palestine, reform of the League of Nations, the Tanganyika Mandate [later Tanzania] and the South African territories (5); Sir Walford Selby; Hugh Sellon on his views about the return of German colonies in his book "Europe at the Crossroads"; 1st Lord Stonehaven [earlier John Baird]; 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [Governor-General of Canada, earlier John Buchan] on the new Cabinet, particularly Oliver Stanley as President of the Board of Trade, Duff Cooper [First Lord of the Admiralty] and Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister, also the chances for a trade treaty between Britain and the United States; Josiah Wedgwood on subjects including the partition of Palestine (2).
2 files.

Dec 1936-Dec 1937

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Harold Armstrong, suggesting Jan Smuts as a war leader (2); Sir Abe Bailey (3); Stanley Baldwin; [Charles] Vernon Bartlett, congratulating LSA on his letter to the press about the Munich Crisis; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken], criticizing a speech by [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister; Richard Bennett, Canadian Leader of the Opposition on the chances of a commercial treaty between Britain and the United States, and the results for Canada; 1st Lord Birdwood congratulating LSA on a speech on shipping, regretting that he were not Secretary of State for Air, and comparing him with Winston Churchill (3); Mary Booth; Richard Casey on the difficulty for the Dominions in committing themselves to defence plans; Neville Chamberlain on Tanganyika [later Tanzania] and the cession of colonies to Germany, thanking LSA for his generosity over the Munich Crisis, the Empire Parliamentary Association, and commenting on his own difficult path (5); Winston Churchill, on his concerns about the partition of Palestine; May Couchman [Elizabeth Couchman], Australian Broadcasting Commission, congratulating LSA on his part in a broadcast on defence; Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, on the purchase of anti-aircraft guns for Jersey; 9th Lord de la Warr [President of the Board of Education, earlier Lord Buckhurst] on LSA's views on education; [Alfred] Duff Cooper [First Lord of the Admiralty, later 1st Lord Norwich] (2); Raymond Ffennell on taking urban children into rural areas (2); Alexander Fraser, Warden of Newbattle Abbey College, on LSA's views about education; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on his views of Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain and Neville Chamberlain, relating to foreign policy, and on defence policy (2); Count Dino Grandi [Italian Ambassador to Britain] (2); 1st Lord Greenwood; Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] (2); [William] Keith Hancock (2); Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet] on his decision to resign; Sir Patrick Hannon; Edwin Herbert [Secretary of the Alpine Club, later Lord Tangley]; James Hertzog [Prime Minister of South Africa]; Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Templewood], assuring LSA that they thought alike on the big issues; Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, on a proposed Foreign Legion from the colonies; Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia [later 1st Lord Malvern] on amalgamating Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe], Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia] and Nyasaland [later Malawi]; William Hughes, Australian Minister for External Affairs, on subjects including the Munich Crisis and Imperial defence (2); Sir Thomas Inskip [Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, later 1st Lord Caldecote] on subjects including gas production (2); Charles Jeffries; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] on the good results of contacts with Germany and Italy; Beryl Lafone on the death of Edgar Lafone; Neville Laski, President, London Committee of Deputies of British Jews; 1st Lord Lee of Fareham (2); Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on settling Jewish refugees from Europe in parts of the Empire, particularly the Cayman Islands or the Bahamas, and a royal visit to Malta (2); Sir Dougal Malcolm; Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak Minister to Britain, thanking LSA for his valiant support "for the cause of decency"; [Henry] Montague Bell; Robert Brand; Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt; [Elizabeth] Dora, Lady Robertson, on the death of Sir William Robertson; 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Harold Harmsworth], commenting on the Munich Crisis and rearmament (including a letter to Winston Churchill) (2); James de Rothschild; A L Rowse, apologizing for misquoting LSA; Philip Sarell; Herbert Sidebotham (2); Sir John Simon; Jan Smuts on subjects including former German colonies, the Anschluss with Austria and further German ambitions (2); Edward Spears; Lord Stanley on becoming [Secretary of State for the Dominions]; Sir Ronald Storrs; James Stratford; 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [Governor-General of Canada, earlier John Buchan] on subjects including the Austrian Anschluss, alarm in the United States, particularly on the economy, and his book on the Emperor Augustus (3); Henry Tyndale [Editor of the Alpine Journal ] on a poem by LSA; [David] Euan Wallace; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams on the Government's cowardice; Geoffrey Winthrop Young.
2 files.

Jan 1938-Dec 1938

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams on LSA's being included in the new Cabinet; Harold Armstrong on LSA's advice to delay publishing his unfavourable biography of Winston Churchill or revise it (6); Sir Abe Bailey (3); Stanley Baldwin on a poem by LSA; Jacques Bardoux; Robert Bower, RAF Coastal Command; Sir Frank Fox (2); [Edward] Leslie Burgin [Minister of Supply] on buying policy; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] on subjects including a proposal to give a copy of the Magna Carta to the United States and offers of help from LSA (5); Winston Churchill [First Lord of the Admiralty, from September] on subjects including thanking LSA for his support in a debate on defence spending and a plan by LSA concerning the North Sea (2); John Dafoe on Britain's lack of leadership and shameful conduct over the Munich Crisis; Norah, Lady Davis, thanking LSA for his tribute to Sir Charles Davis; Patrick Donner, on LSA's criticism that the Government was at the mercy of events, and hoping that he would still have a place in the Cabinet; Herbert Fisher [former President of the Board of Education] on his Education Act; Cecilia, Lady Fisher, thanking LSA for his tribute to Admiral Sir William Fisher; Lubov, Lady Fletcher; Alexander Fraser; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on subjects including Neville Chamberlain's refusal to see him (4); Dame Margaret Greville; Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on subjects including 1st Lord Hailey's African research (2); Count Dino Grandi [Italian Ambassador to Britain]; 1st Lord Greenwood; 1st Lord Hailey [Director, African Research Survey] (2); Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on subjects including protecting Danzig [Gdansk, Poland], refugees from Czechoslovakia and whether to help Finland against the Soviet Union (8); Oliver Harvey [Principal Private Secretary to Halifax] on the possibility that Italy might abandon its alliance with Germany; Sir Edward Harding [Permanent Under-Secretary of State Dominions Office]; Henry Harrison (3); Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Templewood] on subjects including Home Office discouragement of public meetings, and the situation of Alwine Dollfuss, widow of Engelbert Dollfuss [late Chancellor of Austria] (4); Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, on LSA's suggestions for National Service and raising a Special Reserve (4); William Hughes [Australian Minister for External Affairs] on the Australian political situation and the election of Robert Menzies; Sir Akbar Hydari; Sir Thomas Inskip [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 1st Lord Caldecote] on the administration of Swaziland and the future of Newfoundland [Canada] (3); Laura, Lady Lovat; William Mabane, Assistant Postmaster-General; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada; Sir Halford Mackinder; Arthur Meighen on subjects including the royal visit to Canada and anti-British propaganda by the Canadian Broadcasting Commission (2); Robert Menzies, on becoming Prime Minister of Australia, defence policy and relations in the Pacific (3); Sir Alfred Morine on the political and economic situation in Newfoundland; Nadejda, Lady Muir on Bulgaria's neutrality; Sir Reginald Poole, Lewis and Lewis, solicitors, on a libellous statement about LSA in the New Leader (4); [Archibald] Fenner Brockway, Editor of the New Leader; Montague Rendall; Sir Herbert Creedy [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War]; 2nd Countess Roberts (2); 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Harold Harmsworth], on the chances of Hungary attacking Romania; Sir John Simon on finding a place for LSA in the war effort (2); Jan Smuts [South African Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs and Defence] on subjects including the partition of Palestine, the change in British foreign policy towards Germany, German colonial claims and danger to the Eastern Mediterranean (7); Edward Spears; Oliver Stanley [President of the Board of Trade] on insuring provisions against air attack; Edgar Stogdon; Sir Ronald Storrs; Evelyn Fitz-Gerald, Panmure, Gordon and Company; Charles te Water [South African High Commissioner in London]; 1st Lord Trenchard on the possibility of gas attack (2); 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [Governor-General of Canada, earlier John Buchan] on subjects including the need for a small War Cabinet, keeping up relations with the United States, the royal visit to Canada and preparations for war (5); Constance Waggett; Sir Archibald Wavell on the biography of 1st Lord Allenby; Chaim Weizmann [President of the World Zionist Organisation].
3 files.

Jan 1939-Dec 1939

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Stanley Baldwin; Princess Marthe Bibesco; Sir John Boyd Orr, Director of the Rowett Research Institute, on army rations and LSA's ideas for milk distribution; Sir Edward Grigg [Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Information, later 1st Lord Altrincham]; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister; Winston Churchill [First Lord of the Admiralty] (2); Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] commenting on the debate over aid sent to Finland; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] commissioning articles by LSA on the economic organization of the war effort (3); [Willoughby] Clive Garsia ["Guy Cottar"] on his book ["A Key to Victory"] (3); Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; 1st Lord Greenwood; Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on subjects including military aid for Finland and commercial negotiations with Yugoslavia (2); Richard Hanson, Canadian Leader of the Opposition, on LSA's over-favourable view of the Canadian war effort; Arthur Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester (writing in 1940-42), on religious and strategical affairs in Cyprus and the Balkans (7); Leslie Hore-Belisha; Mary, Lady Hudson; Gervas Huxley; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] on the late 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [Governor-General of Canada, earlier John Buchan]; Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine]; [Beatrice] Violet, Lady Leconfield; Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on the changing situation in Europe, improvements in the South African political scene and his concerns about the British Cabinet; Edgar Stogdon; Sir Samuel Turner. This file also contains the originals of correspondence between LSA and Chamberlain, 1911-40, and letters to Chamberlain from [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada], Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia and James Hertzog, Prime Minister of South Africa, congratulating him on achieving peace following the Munich Crisis (1938) and from Dame Enid Lyons, thanking Chamberlain for his tribute to Joseph Lyons (1939).
2 files.

Sep 1911-Jun 1954

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] (2); Bernard Sendall, Admiralty; representatives of the Society of Friends Germany Emergency Committee (3); [Charles] Vernon Bartlett; [Henry] Montague Bell; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst] on a broadcast by LSA; Robert Boothby on subjects including getting a rebuke from Winston Churchill (2); Robert Bower (2); Doreen, Lady Brabourne; Henry Brailsford on a war cry for Europe; Alexander Lindsay on the attitude among the Indian Civil Service to Dominion status for India (3); Demetrius Caclamanos; 1st Lord Caldecote [Secretary of State for the Dominions, earlier Thomas Inskip] on a proposed American base in Newfoundland [Canada]; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain on leaving politics, commenting that some of LSA's actions had hurt him deeply; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, on subjects including declining the freedom of Blackpool [Lancashire] (6); John Colville [Assistant Private Secretary to Churchill]; Major-General Thomas Hutton, Deputy Chief of General Staff, India, praising the Indian troops in North Africa; Ronald Cross [Minister of Shipping] on using Port Churchill in Saskatchewan [Canada] as a convoy base; Lord Cranborne [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury]; [Edward] Hugh Dalton [Minister of Economic Warfare] on making use of senior French officers being retired by General Maxime Weygand [French Minister of National Defence]; Sidney Dark, Editor of the Church Times; Sir Percival David; Frances, Lady Davidson [later Baroness Northchurch] on propaganda about Jawaharlal Nehru being sent to Labour organizations; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Secretary of State for War, later 1st Lord Avon] on 1st Lord Davies's proposed International Volunteer Force and King Zog of Albania (3); Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on the bombing of Printing House Square [London]; Blanche Dugdale; [Willoughby] Clive Garsia ["Guy Cottar"] on organization of the war effort and his book "A Key to Victory" (2); Major-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet] on Garsia's book; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] (2); Harold Grime, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the West Lancashire Evening Gazette; Sir Maurice Gwyer, Chief Justice of India, on the political situation in India; Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Haining [Vice-Chief Imperial General Staff] on finding a position for Orde Wingate in the Middle East; Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on subjects including the supply of arms to Finland, financial support for French political leaders, the difficulty of arguing with Churchill on India, inducing the Soviet Union to buy Romanian oil, the exiled Government of the Netherlands, the mission of 1st Lord Willingdon [earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] to South America and the question of forming a Romanian National Committee in Britain while withdrawing the British Mission to Romania (7); Sir Alexander Hardinge [Private Secretary to King George VI] on concerns about the capability of Admiral of the Fleet Sir [Alfred] Dudley Pound, 1st Sea Lord; Henry Harrison (3); Hubert Henderson, War Cabinet, on a memorandum by LSA on war aims and post-war policy, particularly on the economy and European union; Lionel Curtis; Sir Samuel Hoare [British Ambassador to Spain, later 1st Lord Templewood] on subjects including LSA becoming Secretary of State for India, contacting John Amery, and the lack of liaison with non-occupied France, the effect on refugees and British subjects in France, and Hoare's isolation in Spain (2); Major-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet] on subjects including co-operation between Germany and the IRA; [William] Stephen King-Hall on his likely decision to oppose the Government in the national interest; Sir John Latham on war preparations in Australia and the lack of leadership from Britain; [Beatrice] Violet, Lady Leconfield; Sir Roderick Jones [Chairman and Managing Director of Reuters] (2); Lady [Ada] Edwina Lewin [later 3rd Countess Roberts] on subjects including keeping in touch with John Amery (2); Colin Thornley, Colonial Office; 2nd Lord Lytton, Chairman of the Council of Aliens; Sir George Macdonogh, criticizing Government handling of the war; 1st Lord Marchwood [earlier George Frederick Penny]; Sir Charles Marston; Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia on the war effort; 1st Lord Midleton [earlier William Brodrick]; [William] Arthur Moore on the serious situation in India, particularly in aircraft construction, modernization of the army and the souring political mood; Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to Churchill]; Sir Firoz Khan Noon, High Commissioner for India in London; Sir [Herbert] Stanley Reed on the Indian constitution (2); William Robinson (3); Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell; Sir Claud Schuster [President of the Alpine Club]; Sir Walford Selby [British Ambassador to Portugal] on Portuguese sympathy for the Allies (2); 1st Lord Simon; Charalambos Simopoulos [Greek Ambassador to Britain]; Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air [later 1st Lord Thurso] on why more could not be done to help Greece (2); Ralph Stevenson [Principal Private Secretary to Halifax] on the effects of a speech by LSA about helping Greece; Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on subjects including LSA's return to the Cabinet, the barbarity of Nazism, defence in Africa, the collapse of France, delaying diplomatic appointments, Britain's drastic efforts to combat civil disobedience in India and the development of the war in the Mediterranean and Middle East (3); Cornelia Sorabji; 7th Lord Stanhope [earlier Lord Mahon] on the death of his wife; Edgar Stogdon; Sir Stephen Tallents [Controller (Public Relations) BBC]; Viorel Tilea on plans for post-war Europe; Averil, Lady Tryon on the death of 1st Lord Tryon; Sir Samuel Turner; [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Minister of Information, later 1st Lord Norwich] on taxing book exports (2); Sir Hereward Wake; Sir Fabian Ware on subjects including sinking the French fleet (2); the 2nd Duke of Westminster [earlier Lord Belgrave]; Sir Geoffrey Whiskard; [Arthur] Basil Williams (2); Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams; [?] Ronald Wingate on dealing with the Indian Congress; Sir [John] Evelyn Wrench, English-Speaking Union; George Young; 2nd Lord Zetland [former Secretary of State for India, earlier Lord Ronaldshay] congratulating LSA on securing a greater role for Indians in forming the new Indian constitution. Also includes: letter from Churchill in 1903 on army reform; memorandum by 1st Lord Davies on a proposed International Volunteer Force; memorandum on Anglo-Irish relations, suggesting a solution to the deadlock; remonstrance to Churchill on Irish defence forces being controlled by the Royal Ulster Constabulary; despatch from Sir Miles Lampson [British Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for the Sudan, later 1st Lord Killearn] on the political situation in Egypt, with comments from LSA on Lampson's attitude; text of broadcast by Sir [Herbert] Stanley Reed on the changed attitude to India in Parliament, and on a speech by LSA on the new constitution.
4 files.

Apr 1940-Dec 1940

Correspondence A - F. Correspondents include: A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] on criticism of convoy commodores and of the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (3); the Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on concerns about the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (2); Sir Walford Selby [former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna] on uniting the anti-Nazi elements in Austria (2); 1st Lord Sankey; Sir John Anderson [Lord President of the Council, later 1st Lord Waverley] on wage stabilisation, particularly combined with introducing family allowances and on his marriage to Ava Wigram (2); Sir Cyril Ashford; 2nd Lord Astor, Chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; 1st Lord Athlone [Governor-General of Canada]; Clement Attlee, Lord Privy Seal [and Leader of the Labour Party] on liaison between the Labour Party and Government departments under Conservative ministers and letters from LSA about control of the Planning Committee and Allied co-ordination (4); General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief Middle East] on subjects including the excellent behaviour of the Indian troops, his regrets at leaving India, the importance of Central Europe, the useful presence of the Minister of State [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos], problems in dealing with the Free French and Jewish reluctance to enlist in Palestinian companies (3); 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on subjects including a proposal for reciprocal Anglo-American citizenship and immigration from the Commonwealth into the United States (2); [Henry] Montague Bell (3); 1st Lord Bennett; Robert Boothby on being investigated [for financial impropriety] and the death of Ronald Cartland (2); Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] on LSA's suggestion that Sir Roderick Jones should take on propaganda for the Middle East, on publicity to help Slovenia [Yugoslavia] and control of Reuters (6); Ernest Brown [Minister of Health] on subjects including India Office representation on the Committee on Military and Civil Medical Personnel (2); Sir Stuart Brown; Arthur Bryant; R A Butler [Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on LSA's views about the anti-British regime in Iraq; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury on the political difficulties in India (4); Sir Frank Fletcher [former Headmaster of Charterhouse] on the death of Ronald Cartland; Mary Cartland (2); Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine] on Cartland's death; Barbara McCorquodale [Barbara Cartland] on her brother's death and writing his biography (5); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] on Cartland's biography; George Catlin on his book "One Anglo-American Nation" (9); Sir Gerald Campbell [British Minister in Washington] on barring Catlin from the United States; Sir John Chancellor on the death of 1st Lord Lloyd; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister; [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Minister of Information, later 1st Lord Norwich] on offering broadcasting facilities to the American Government, economic problems for post-war Europe and his mission to the Far East (4); Lord Cranborne [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury] on restoring an independent Abyssinia [later Ethiopia], discretionary powers of Dominion Governors, the political situation in Newfoundland [Canada], LSA's concerns about economic co-operation with the United States and his suggestion of 1st Lord Iliffe as a prospective Governor (5); Sir Alfred Morine on the political situation in Newfoundland (2); Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union] on attempts to persuade Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Mayling Chiang Kai-Shek that Jawaharlal Nehru should remain in prison; Ronald Cross [British High Commissioner in Australia]; George Dibblee on a tank invention (7); 1st Lord Simon (3); Virginia Johnes (3); 1st Lord Hankey on Dibblee's claims (4); Sir Walter Monckton [Director-General of Ministry of Information]; Blanche Dugdale; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including LSA's suggestion that General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] might need a political adviser on the Balkans, a suggestion that the United States might give economic credits to Greece, the future of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia], encouraging Yugoslavia, a request from Belgium to share the economic privileges of the Empire, LSA's complaint about not receiving War Cabinet telegrams, relations with Turkey, possible successors to the Shah of Iran, restoring Emir Abdul Illah to power in Iraq, financial assistance to Iraq, the future of King Petar of Yugoslavia, the Austrian question and the future of Central and Eastern Europe and the supply of food to Yugoslavia (25); Paul Emden (4); Sir Firoz Khan Noon [Labour Member of Viceroy's Executive Council, India]; Dame Katharine Furse; Sir Ralph Furse. Also includes: telegrams between the Dominions Office, Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and Churchill, on Italian East Africa and the future of Abyssinia; telegram from the Governor of Burma [Sir Hugh Dorman-Smith] on his meeting with Maxim Litvinov [Soviet Ambassador to the United States] and Litvinov's views on the war.
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Jan 1941-Dec 1941

Correspondence G - Z. Correspondents include: Major-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet]; [Willoughby] Clive Garsia [Guy Cottar] on his book "Planning the War"; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on subjects including LSA's tribute to 1st Lord Lloyd and Mahomed Jinnah [President of the All India Muslim League] (5); Admiral Sir William Goodenough; 1st Lord Greenwood; Francis Pember on LSA's tribute to Edward Grenfell [1st Lord St Just]; Sir Lloyd Griscom on subjects including opinion in the United States against Japan; Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on subjects including Indian representation in the United States, an Indian having responsibility for defence in India and American public opinion on the war (2); Sir Ian Hamilton; 2nd Lord Astor, Chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, on a proposed survey of Commonwealth affairs by Professor [William] Keith Hancock; Professor Hancock; Lord Cranborne [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury] on Canada's war effort; Richard Hanson, Canadian Leader of the Opposition, protesting about a speech by LSA praising Canada's war effort as belittling the Canadian contribution to the First World War; Sir Edward Harding [British High Commissioner for South Africa] on having to resign; 4th Lord Harlech [British High Commissioner for South Africa, earlier William Ormsby-Gore] on the situation in South Africa, including the lack of a successor for Jan Smuts as Prime Minister, neglect of Swaziland and the deadlock in Palestine; Wing Commander H Hemming (4); Sir Samuel Hoare [British Ambassador to Spain, later 1st Lord Templewood] on Spanish reaction to the collapse of Yugoslavia and Britain's withdrawal from Egypt, the importance of keeping Spanish goodwill, Indian Liberals, LSA's administrative changes in India, a speech by General Francisco Franco [Head of Spanish State] in support of Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, Spanish reaction to German setbacks in the Soviet Union and discouraging reports from the Spanish division in the German army and Hoare's view that an invasion of Spain was now less likely (3); Henry Hodson [Reforms Commissioner, Government of India]; Sir Walter Monckton [Director-General of Ministry of Information, then Director-General of British Propaganda and Information Services at Cairo, Egypt] on propaganda in Iceland and his new job in Egypt (2); Enid, Lady Jones on LSA's offer to help Sir Roderick Jones; Henri de Kerillis on his dismay that John Amery was being interned as an enemy in France and his own powerlessness to help the Allied cause; R A Butler [Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; Sir John Latham [Minister for Australia to Japan] on the results of defending Crete for the Middle Eastern campaign, disappointment that the Allies could not do more to help the Soviet Union, or carry out large-scale bombing attacks, Japan's 'divine mission' to lead East Asia, particularly excluding all British and American influence, the impending attack on Thailand, justification for Japan's military actions, Japanese methods of dealing with dissent and unease at Japan's situation and fear of war with the United States; Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine]; Edith, Lady Londonderry; 7th Lord Londonderry [earlier Lord Castlereagh]; Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of State [later 1st Lord Chandos] on his difficulties with the Free French and sending help to insurgents in Yugoslavia (2); [Henry] David Margesson, Secretary of State for War, on a proposed Information Centre in the Middle East for co-ordination of overt and covert propaganda, including copies of telegrams between the Commander-in-Chief Middle East [General Sir Archibald Wavell] and the War Office; Sir Edward Marsh; Sir Walter Massy-Greene on the Eastern Group Supply Council's demands on Australian wool manufacturers, the effect of a delay in licensing wool manufacture machinery, and concerns that this was a deliberate attempt by the Board of Trade to forestall Australian competition after the war (4); Sir Andrew Duncan [President of the Board of Trade] (3); Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia (3); Violet, Lady Milner; 5th Lord Monteagle [earlier Charles Spring Rice]; John Moore-Brabazon [Minister of Aircraft Production, later 1st Lord Brabazon]; Sir [John] Henry Morris-Jones on the appointment of Sir Henry Craik as Political Adviser to the Viceroy of India; 1st Lord Moyne [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Walter Guinness] on LSA's suggestion that Arab tribesmen could be recruited for the army; Sir John Murray, senior director of John Murray, publishers (2); Flora MacLeod of MacLeod [earlier Flora Walter]; Sir Firoz Khan Noon, High Commissioner for India in London, on subjects including LSA's hope that India and Pakistan would not split (3); [Arthur] George Peel; Leonard Elmhirst, Chairman of Political and Economic Planning (PEP); Annie, Lady Plumer (2); Margaret Purvis on LSA's tribute to Arthur Purvis; [?] Quo Tai-chi [Chinese Ambassador to Britain]; Catherine Radcliffe; [Frederick] Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln on the case of Nathaniel Railton (3); Sir [John] Gilbert Laithwaite, Secretary to the Governor-General of India, on correspondence between Jawaharlal Nehru and Eleanor Rathbone; Aileen, 2nd Countess Roberts; Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air [later 1st Lord Thurso] on subjects including the air services between Australia and South Africa, Palestine and Singapore and the effects of bombing on morale (4); Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on subjects including the general war situation, splits in the Nationalist Afrikaner Party following the retirement of James Hertzog, Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, economic negotiations with the United States, particularly the Most Favoured Nation clause, Palestine and concerns that Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] might be overtaxing himself (4); J Alfred Spender; Sir Bertram Stevens, Australian Representative, Empire Eastern Group Supply Council (2); Ethel, Lady Stonehaven on the death of 1st Lord Stonehaven [earlier John Baird]; Myron Taylor (2); Sir Orme Sargent, Foreign Office, on reasons for avoiding a declaration of policy on Albania, or on any other Balkan country and on Myron Taylor's questions about British policy on removing Hitler, the difference between Nazism and Hitlerism and restoring the independence of countries overrun by the Axis Powers (3); Marshal of the RAF Sir Arthur Tedder, Air Officer Commanding in Chief, RAF, Middle East, on Yugoslav officers serving in Trans-Jordan [later Jordan]; Viorel Tilea; [Hubert] Gladwyn Jebb, Ministry of Economic Warfare (2); Marshal of the RAF 1st Lord Trenchard; Sir Samuel Turner, Director of Turner and Newall Limited on distributing a booklet, "The British Commonwealth" (2); Air Vice-Marshal [Alfred] Guy Garrod [Air Member for Training on Air Council] on restrictions on gliding and distribution of "The British Commonwealth" among air training units (2); Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to Churchill] (2); Sir John Wardlaw-Milne [Chairman of the Conservative India Committee and House of Commons Select Committee on National Expenditure] on his concerns about the deadlock between Hindus and Moslems over political progress in India, suggesting that ministers should be responsible to the Governor-General rather than the Indian Parliament and problems with awarding competitive contracts (2); Sir Fabian Ware on subjects including bombs falling close to LSA's house (2); General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India, on taking up his new command, particularly the lack of an air force, Russian fears of attack on the Caucasus, shortage of tanks and the pay of Indian officers serving overseas (2); Josiah Wedgwood (3); Vi Wellington Koo [Chinese Ambassador to Britain] on his pride that China and Britain were now allies; John Winant [American Ambassador to Britain] (2); John Wolfenden [Director of Pre-Entry Training, Air Ministry]; Herbert Wood [Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham]; Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Also includes: memorandum by Wing Commander H Hemming, Managing Director of the Aircraft Operating Company Limited on the air survey work done by his company for the RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; translation of article from the Japanese paper Yomiuri on rumours of hostile Allied policy towards East Asia and cutting from the Japan Times on the influence of Europe, particularly Britain, in the East; extracts of letters from LSA to Lord Castlereagh on his views about Hitler and the sense in leaving him to invade the Soviet Union, and the British Government's failure to be frank with Germany in the past (c 1936); a letter from John Connell to Julian Amery on using a letter from LSA on the opportunities open to Wavell's Desert Force in his biography of Wavell.
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Jan 1941-Apr 1964

Correspondence A - J. Correspondents include: A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty], explaining that there were no submarines available to help the Yugoslavs and on efforts to persuade the French fleet at Alexandria [Egypt] to join the Allies (3); Sir John Anderson [Lord President of the Council, later 1st Lord Waverley] on the Canadian wage control scheme, and whether similar measures could be used in Britain (2); Harold Armstrong (2); Lord Athlone [Governor-General of Canada] commenting on Indian affairs, particularly the arrest of Mohandas Gandhi, the handling of the conscription issue by [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] and whether Indian princes should act as delegates to the United States (2); 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Viceroy of India, earlier Lord Hopetoun]; Clement Attlee [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs]; Jessie, Lady Auchinleck; Sir [Clement] Anderson Montague-Barlow; Sir James Barrett (3); Sir Harry Batterbee [High Commissioner for Britain in New Zealand] on British prestige in New Zealand and the decision to leave the New Zealand division in the Middle East; Eduard Benes, President of the Czechoslovak Republic; Janet, Lady Beveridge; Sir William Beveridge; 1st Lord Birdwood congratulating LSA on the Indian situation, including the arrest of Gandhi and the view from the United States (4); Robert Bower on public feeling against the Government and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, mistaken grand strategy and bad advice given to Churchill, particularly by Admiral of the Fleet Sir [Alfred] Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff] (2); Leonard Brockington; General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] on LSA's request for more battalions to be sent to Burma [later Myanmar, use that could be made of Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Wingate and Germany's essentially defensive strategy, making attacks on Egypt and Cyprus unlikely (5); General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India, on finding a place for Wingate; Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in Britain] on Richard Casey becoming Minister of State Resident in the Middle East (2); Arthur Bryant (3); Malcolm Burr; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury; Robert Cary [Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA] on Parliamentary debates about India (2); George Catlin on his proposal for an Anglo-American Institute of Cultural Relations (2); Sir Malcolm Robertson [Chairman of the British Council] on Catlin's proposal; 1st Lord Elton, General Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, on Catlin; 1st Lord Catto; Somerset de Chair on his impressions of the Middle East, particularly the difficulties in working with the Free French and the alienation of Arab sympathy (2); 1st Lord Moyne [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Walter Guinness] on de Chair's report, particularly on Palestine; [Thomas] Leslie Rowan, Private Secretary to Churchill; Clementine Churchill; Sir Firoz Khan Noon [Defence Member, Government of India] on the political situation, particularly the dangers of pushing the Moslems into open opposition to the Government; John Martin, Private Secretary to Churchill; Edward Cobb on giving up his position as Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA; [Alfred] Duff Cooper, Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster [later 1st Lord Norwich]; Colin Coote, Daily Telegraph; Colin Thornley [Principal Private Secretary to Lord Cranborne]; Field Marshal Sir John Dill on a request from Chaim Weizmann [President of the World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine] that Orde Wingate should organize Jewish Commandos in Palestine; Lord Cranborne [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 5th Lord Salisbury] on the suggestion that Duff Cooper should be sent to West Africa and propaganda to the United States on Empire affairs (2); Lionel Curtis (2); [Frances] Joan, Lady Davidson [later Joan, Baroness Northchurch] on Communist propaganda on India; Clement Davies; Margot, Lady Davson; Field Marshal Sir John Dill [Head of the British Joint Staff Mission to the United States] on the choice of a successor to General Wavell in India, the health of Orde Wingate and his own position as [Governor-Designate of Bombay]; Alan Don; Sir Patrick Duncan [Governor-General of South Africa], writing to Lionel Curtis on the political situation in South Africa, particularly the Nationalist Party and its leader, Daniel Malan, and the necessity of the British withdrawing from India after the war, and to LSA on withdrawing from India (2); Eric Dutton, commenting on India and shortcomings in Imperial administration and the free Romanian movement; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including a suggestion that a relief ship be sent from Greece to Ireland and the reconstruction of King Petar of Yugoslavia's Cabinet (10); Herbert Evatt; Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, assuring LSA that New Zealand would give any help they could with India's problems after the war; Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg [General Officer Commanding New Zealand Forces] commenting on the situation in the Middle East, particularly shortcomings in air power; J L Garvin on India's political resemblance to Ireland, and his view that Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps had understood the Hindu side better than the Moslem [during his mission to the Indian Congress] and on his own resignation as [Editor of the Observer] (2); Professor Arthur Goodhart on a speech by LSA; General Sir Hubert Gough on his concerns about the naval and military position in the Far East, particularly defending the border between India and Burma [later Myanmar]; Felix de Grand' Combe [Felix Boillot] (2); 1st Lord Greenwood; Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham]; Brigadier-General Percy Groves, Political Intelligence Department, Foreign Office, on the work of the Political Warfare Executive, the importance of troop-carrying gliders, post-war reconstruction of Europe and a paper by Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi on using aims for a new European order as a method of shortening the war (4); 1st Lord Hailey on the attitude of the Labour Party to the internationalization of colonies; Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on subjects including approaches to the Indian constitutional problem and the American view of India (3); 1st Lord Hankey on subjects including being dismissed from the position of [Paymaster-General] (2); Sir Alexander Hardinge [Private Secretary to King George VI] on awarding the George Cross to Malta; 4th Lord Harlech [British High Commissioner in South Africa, earlier William Ormsby-Gore] on the political situation in South Africa, particularly the lack of interest towards Basutoland [later Lesotho], Bechuanaland [later Botswana], and Swaziland, expansion in South African industry, the poor prospects for new immigrants and the reasons for failure of British administration in India; Alan Herbert, enclosing a verse on Mohandas Gandhi; Lord Hinchingbrooke [later 10th Lord Sandwich, then Victor Montagu] on broadcasting the proceedings of Parliament; Cardinal Arthur Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster; Sir Samuel Hoare [British Ambassador to Spain, later 1st Lord Templewood] on the deadlock in India, the need for a victory on land and his feelings at staying in Spain (3); Jan Hofmeyr [South African Minister of Finance and of Education]; 1st Lord Iliffe; Richard Jebb on his view of the Indian Congress Party; Sir William Jowitt, Paymaster-General, on his committee of reconstruction problems and the importance of nutrition to India's future needs (2). Also includes: memorandum by Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the wages situation and inflation; the originals of correspondence between LSA and Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Johannesburg Star, then Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson], 1906-41, on subjects including the South African political situation (1906-1910), a proposed Imperial press agency and Dawson's decision to leave South Africa (from 1918, copies exist elsewhere in AMEL 2/1); sequence of war sonnets by Sir Geoffrey Davson [later Sir Anthony Glyn]; paper by Arthur Goodhart on the political and constitutional implications of closer Anglo-American co-operation; paper on the Political Warfare Executive; article by Richard Jebb on Dominion status for India.
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Mar 1906-Dec 1942

Correspondence K - Z. Correspondents include: Marina, Duchess of Kent, thanking LSA for his sympathy [on the death of George, Duke of Kent]; 1st Lord Lang on Mohandas Gandhi's irresponsibility; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Viceroy of India, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on the actions of Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps [during his mission to the Indian Congress], Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan [Agent-General to Government of India in China] and on the question of his own successor (3); Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later 1st Lord Chandos] on subjects including the advantage of specialised research (2); Malcolm MacDonald, High Commissioner for Britain in Canada; Sir Dougal Malcolm on the Cripps Mission; 1st Lord Margesson on leaving his post as Secretary of State for War; Queen Mary thanking LSA for his sympathy [on the death of George, Duke of Kent]; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada in Britain, on a proposed exchange of High Commissioners between Canada and India (2); Sir Walter Massy-Greene on problems with export licences from Australia, Japanese attacks against Java [Jawa, Indonesia] and chances of an attack against Australia; James Maxton; Henry Montague Bell (3); Sir Maurice Bell; 1st Lord Brabazon [earlier John Moore-Brabazon] on leaving the House of Commons; [Henry] Austin Strutt [Principal Private Secretary to Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary]; Edward Mousley (3); Colin Thornley [Principal Private Secretary to 1st Lord Moyne, Secretary of State for the Colonies]; 1st Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness] on the Amerys using his house [while he was in Egypt as Deputy Minister of State]; Hopson Murfee, Secretary of the Edmund Burke American Memorial Committee (3); Bernard Myers, Commissioner in Britain for the New Zealand Red Cross Society; Walter Noble, President of the Conference of the Methodist Church on his distress at the actions of the Indian Congress; Sir Firoz Khan Noon [Labour Member of Viceroy's Executive Council, India] on the lack of progress in Britain's African colonies, the importance of the British Government not acceding to the Congress's demands, Moslem war efforts and Noon's meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on labour issues, conflict between Hindus and Moslems; Montagu Norman; Morgan Phillips; Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information]; Thomas Dugdale, Chairman of the Conservative Party [later 1st Lord Crathorne]; Ralegh Phillpotts; Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal [Chief of the Air Staff] on the possibility of attacking railway junctions at Bologna and Verona [Italy]; 1st Lord Rankeillour [earlier James Hope] on the debate on India in the House of Lords; Aileen, 2nd Countess Roberts (2); Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States] thanking LSA for a book and (writing to Winston Churchill, Prime Minister) comparing India to the United States at the end of the American War of Independence and suggesting a temporary Dominion government for India; Henry Sargeaunt; Hilary St George Saunders (4); Sir George Schuster; Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin]; 3rd Lord Selborne [Minister of Economic Warfare, earlier Lord Wolmer] on the death of his father and [?] son and getting supplies to Yugoslavia (4); Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air [later 1st Lord Thurso] on sending supplies to Yugoslavia; Sir Walford Selby; Frederick Seymour Cocks; Ernest Shepard on his cartoon of LSA; 1st Lord Simon [Lord Chancellor] congratulating LSA on his handling of Indian affairs and on a speech (2); Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (2); Cornelia Sorabji; Percy Spender; Eric Dutton [Chief Secretary, Zanzibar] on the attitude of the Zanzibar Indians; Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on a proposed Standing Committee of Parliament on the Colonies; 1st Lord Swinton [Cabinet Minister Resident in West Africa, earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, then Philip Cunliffe-Lister] on Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan's view of Chinese ambitions to take over Burma [later Myanmar] and parts of India, and his concerns that Moslems were not receiving concessions from the British Government; Myron Taylor on terms of surrender and the future attitude of the Soviet Union and Roosevelt's view of a possible solution to the Indian problem (2); John Martin [Principal Private Secretary to Churchill] on the fact that there had been no discussion of India during Churchill's visit to Washington; Viorel Tilea (3); Ronald Tree [Parliamentary Private Secretary to Brendan Bracken] on the importance of stressing to the Americans the effect an Indian collapse would have on the rest of Asia; Sir Samuel Turner; William Watkin Davies; Beatrice Webb [Beatrice, Lady Passfield]; "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster, earlier Lord Belgrave] (2); Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Wingate on his report of his activities in Ethiopia; General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] on Wingate's report and finding a suitable position for him; Lord Wolmer [Minister of Economic Warfare, later 3rd Lord Selborne] on his new post; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis] congratulating LSA on his handling of the situation in India; Sir Francis Wylie; Sir Hubert Young; Slobodan Jovanovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, thanking LSA for his address on Yugoslavia. Other subjects include: economic relations with the United States; Churchill's view of India. Also includes: notes of sentences passed by the Germans against members of the Yugoslav partisans, with extracts from a Yugoslav newspaper on internal struggles among the partisans.
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Jan 1942-Apr 1943

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley] on a recommendation by the British Commonwealth Science Committee for English-speaking countries to maintain scientific representation in London; Clement Attlee [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs] on subjects including self-government for Newfoundland [Canada] (4); General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief in India, on the new South East Asia Command, thanking LSA for his help and giving the Military Medal to the Indian Army; Archduke Robert of Austria; Sir James Barrett; Princess Marthe Bibesco; John Bickersteth, Director of Army Education, on educating the troops about the Empire; General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] on LSA's suggestions for mountain warfare; Malcolm Burr, Balkan Press Reading Bureau, Istanbul [Turkey] on LSA's links with Serbia; Robert Cary [Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA] on subjects including the upcoming India debate (March 1943) (2); Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, on subjects including LSA's robust line about the Empire (2); Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC]; Sir William Clark; Sydney Coles (5); Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps [Minister of Aircraft Production] (2); Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd [Minister of Fuel and Power] on cumene aviation fuel and King Zog of Albania's petrol allowance (2); Lionel Curtis (2); Frances, Lady Davidson [later Baroness Northchurch]; 10th Duke of Devonshire [earlier Lord Hartington] on leaving his position as [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India and for Burma]; Geoffrey Drage; Sir T Drummond Shiels [Vice-President, Royal Empire Society]; Sir Paul Dukes on being banned from lecturing about the Soviet Union (5); Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air [later 1st Lord Thurso] on Dukes and suggestions for improving liaison with American forces (3); [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including representation at the Vatican, setting up a Cabinet committee to discuss the post-war settlement, obtaining the release of the Bishop of Dalmatia and a proposed Yugoslav-Soviet meeting (6); Leonard Green, Chairman, Yugoslav Society of Great Britain, on bringing the Yugoslavs and Soviet authorities together; Walter Elliot on economic articles (2); Rear-Admiral Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Naval Secretary to First Lord of Admiralty, on praise for Admiral Sir Herbert Fitzherbert [Flag Officer Commanding Royal Indian Navy]; S J Frame (4); Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (2); J L Garvin (3); Charles de Gaulle; [Charles] Sydney Goldman; William Griesbach, Inspector-General of Canadian Active Service Force, on immigrants from Britain and their unwillingness to fight and the likelihood of emigration ceasing due to the Beveridge Report on the welfare state; Percy Groves on LSA's proposals for an Imperial policy on civil aviation; Philip Guedalla on a film to commemorate Magna Carta and on retaining air bases in Iraq (7); General Sir Ian Hamilton (2); 1st Lord Hankey; 4th Lord Harlech [High Commissioner for Britain in South Africa, earlier William Ormsby-Gore], writing to Attlee on the possibility of international intervention in African affairs and to LSA on a possible African Conference, the ending of South African isolation, his anxieties about Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies and trouble caused by Mohandas Gandhi (2); Maurice Headlam; Lady Mary Herbert on the death of her husband, Sir John Herbert [Governor of Bengal] (2); Lindsay Dewar on his biography of Nugent Hicks (2); William Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in Britain, on the broadcasting of debates in the New Zealand Parliament; Lord Hinchingbrooke [Chairman of the Tory Reform Committee, later 10th Lord Sandwich, then (Alexander] Victor Montagu] on broadcasting Parliamentary debates and affirming Conservative principles; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] on the importance of India to the future of the Empire; Thomas Hutton, Assistant Editor of the Birmingham Post, on the death of Edgar Record, Editor; R A Butler [Minister of Education] on subjects including courses at Dominion universities for those whose education was interrupted by the war (3); Sir William Jowitt [Minister without Portfolio]; Sir Roderick Jones; 1st Lord Kemsley [earlier James Berry]; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Keyes; Richard Law [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, later 1st Lord Coleraine] on chances of a treaty between the French and Syria and Lebanon and the petrol allowance for King Zog of Albania (2); Sir [Edward] Humphrey Leggett on the British Empire Producers' Organisation; David Lloyd George (3); Frances Lloyd George; Sir Guy Locock, Director of the Federation of British Industries; Sir Halford Mackinder (4); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Minister Resident at Allied Headquarters in North-West Africa [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada in Britain (2); Barbara McCorquodale [Barbara Cartland] on her biography of Ronald Cartland (2); Ralegh Phillpotts, Chairman of the British Tabulating Machine Company Limited; Sir Walter Womersley [Minister of Pensions]; Lady Constance Milnes-Gaskell [Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Mary] on the Queen's interest in the work of the India Society; Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary, on safeguarding British trading interests without restrictive trade treaties; Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten [Chief of Combined Operations, then Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia] on LSA's suggestion for seizing Cephalonia, his memorandum on planning for war and mountain troops for Burma [later Myanmar] (2); 1st Lord Moyne [Deputy Minister of State, Cairo, earlier Walter Guinness] on the visit by Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] to Egypt and the results of Churchill's impatience with the French and on his own future position; Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar [Indian representative at the War Cabinet and Pacific War Council]; Terkel Nielsen (3); Sir Firoz Khan Noon, Defence Member, Government of India, (writing to Florence Amery) on subjects including Congress propaganda against LSA and support for Congress in Britain, the appointments of General Sir Claude Auchinleck [as Commander-in-Chief in India] and General Sir Archibald Wavell [Viceroy and Governor-General of India] and the qualities of the outgoing Viceroy [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] (2); Albert Peel, Editor of the Congregational Quarterly, apologising for printing a statement that LSA had opposed the India Act; Arthur Pickard-Cambridge; Edward Strutt; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; A L Rowse on LSA's classical writings and his own "The Spirit of English History" (3); John Hampden, Director of Books and Periodicals, British Council; Gustave Rudler, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, congratulating LSA on his honorary degree; Duncan Duncan-Sandys on his support for LSA's Imperial outlook; Sir George Schuster on the second-rate administration in India and the need for a new initiative; Sir Leslie Scott on Imperial policy, particularly praising a speech by LSA at York on the Empire (5); 1st Lord Simon; Harold Balfour [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air]; Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on LSA's views about post-war civil aviation in the Empire, concerns about Churchill's health and Smuts's own address to the Empire Parliamentary Association (4); Francis Smythe on mountain troops; Cornelia Sorabji; Percy Spender, Opposition Member of the Australian Advisory War Council, on his support for LSA's views on the Empire, the recent Australian elections and the growing view of the importance of the Empire to Australia among the Australian Labour Party, criticism of Britain's policy on India and the shortage of men from the Dominions involved in Pacific colonial administration (2); Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on subjects including the new constitution for Malta (2); James Stuart; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, then Philip Cunliffe-Lister] on a proposed international Commercial Union; James Thomas; Marshal of the RAF 1st Lord Trenchard; Sir Samuel Turner on the World Trade Alliance; Eugenie, Lady Wavell; General Sir Archibald Wavell [Viceroy and Governor-General of India] on the need for more transport aircraft and making Indian troops eligible for the Military Medal; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, on the death of her son; Lorna Wingate; Brigadier Orde Wingate; Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate (2); Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] on suggestions for improving relations with American troops; Slobodan Jovanovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (2); Seyyid, Sultan of Zanzibar, on his country's contribution to the war effort; [Eileen] Marygold Sterling on the petrol allowance for King Zog of Albania (2). Also includes: memorandum by Julian Amery on the conflict between the Yugoslav Government in Britain and the Partisans; the originals of correspondence between LSA and J L Garvin, 1904-42, (from 1918, copies exist elsewhere in AMEL 2/1); memorandum by Lord Harlech on a possible international organization for Africa south of the Sahara after the war; pamphlet by the Tory Reform Committee on reaffirming Conservative principles; memorandum by Percy Spender on the urgent need for a plan on post-war Empire air communications.
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Jan 1943-Dec 1943

Correspondence A - K. Correspondents include: Joseph Agius (3); Sir Mohamed Akbar Khan on the Indian Comforts Fund and American criticism of the Indian Army; 9th Lord Albemarle [earlier Lord Bury]; Princess Alexandra of Greece (2); Herve Alphand [Director of Economic Affairs for the French National Committee in London] on a proposal for financial arrangements between France and Britain; Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer [later 1st Lord Waverley] on subjects including a paper by LSA on the sterling problem (2); Sir Archibald Wavell, Viceroy of India, on the suspension of the Ministry and the famine in Bengal (2); Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] on support from some members of the Labour Party for the Communist-backed India League; George Baker; 1st Lord Baldwin (3); Richard Law [Minister of State, later 1st Lord Coleraine]; Thomas Balogh on getting his parents a visa for Palestine (2); Colin Thornley [Principal Private Secretary to Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Oliver Stanley on getting a visa for Balogh's parents; Jacques Bardoux on his relations with the Vichy Government of France and his contacts with Charles de Gaulle [leader of the Free French]; Robert Barrington-Ward [Editor of the Times] (2); 1st Lord Birdwood; representatives of the Birmingham Public Opinion Action Association, with resolutions including a demand for interest-free housing loans after the war and a protest against the Allied treatment of the liberated Greeks (4); Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Boucher, Commander 17th Indian Infantry Brigade, on LSA's visit to the brigade; General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to Minister of Defence, Winston Churchill]; Sir Frank Brown; Arthur Bryant; Malcolm Burr; Sir Montague Burton; R A Butler [Minister of Education] on Cabinet discussions about food shipments to India, the Attachment Bill and Wavell's underestimation of the political problems of India (4); William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (2); Robert Cary [Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA] on subjects including leaving LSA to become [a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury] (3); Ethel Casey; Somerset de Chair; Sir Noel Charles, British High Commissioner in Italy (2); John Peck [Private Secretary to Churchill], thanking LSA for his letter on losing 5th Lord Munster [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India and for Burma, earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence] and on post-war organization of the Armed Forces; Lieutenant-General Mark Clark, Commander of the Fifth Army on LSA's visit to his headquarters, and the behaviour of Indian troops in the Italian campaign; Sydney Coles (8); Sir Richard Cooper; 1st Lord Crewe [earlier 2nd Lord Houghton] recalling his time as Secretary of State for India; Sir William Croft [Chief Civil Assistant to Minister of State in Cairo, Egypt] on the departure of Richard Casey [Minister of State] and appointing Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham] as his successor (3); John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (4); Lionel Curtis on the next conference on British Commonwealth relations; Clement Davies; Cecilia Dawson on the death of Geoffrey Dawson [earlier Geoffrey Robinson]; Sir T Drummond Shiels (2); Alice, Lady Duncan; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including LSA's views on the future of Western Europe, Yugoslav politicians trying to position themselves favourably with Marshal Tito and LSA's view that Britain had backed the wrong side in both Poland and Yugoslavia (5); Dorothy, Lady Halifax; Walter Elliot on his view of a solution to the political deadlock in India; Negley Farson (7); Keith Feiling on quoting letters from LSA to [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain on Churchill being a blight at the Treasury (1929) and on Chamberlain's speech on the Munich Crisis (2); [George] Howard Ferguson on LSA's handing of Indian affairs, the failure of Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to India and India's future trading prospects; Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (2); Sir William Furse; [Leonard] David Gammans; Charles de Gaulle; Yvonne de Gaulle on the liberation of Paris [France]; Arthur Goodhart; Eric Gore-Browne; Sir Charles Grant; 1st Lord Greenwood; Carleton Allen, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford; Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham] on his latest book [? "British Foreign Policy"]; Percy Groves, Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department; Nellie Guedalla; 1st Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on international Indian representation and American press comment about Eden leaving the Foreign Office (2); Mary Glasgow, Secretary of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (5); Sir Ian Hamilton (2); H W Harding (3); Sir Harold Hartley; Henry Thursfield; A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty]; Maurice Headlam; Professor A V Hill [Scientific Adviser, Government of India]; Lord Hinchingbrooke [Chairman of the Tory Reform Committee, later 10th Lord Sandwich, then (Alexander) Victor Montagu] on the dispute in the committee and his decision to make way for Quintin Hogg [later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone] as the new chairman; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] on his decision to accept a peerage and enter the House of Lords, rather than remain in the House of Commons; Jessie, Lady Holdsworth (4); Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary; Robert Hudson [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries] on his concerns about economic internationalism; Graham Hutchinson (4); Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Hutton [Secretary, War Resources and Reconstruction Committees of Council (India)] on his retirement from the army.
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Jan 1944-May 1945

Correspondence L - Z. Correspondents include: Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI]; Sir John Latham [Chief Justice of Australia] on the death of his son and the appointment of Richard Casey as Governor of Bengal [India]; Henry Lewin; Frances Lloyd George; Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg; Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later 1st Lord Chandos] on paper allotted to different political parties; Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery, commander of the Eighth Army in Italy, on his Indian divisions (2); Henry McGowan, Archdeacon of Aston, Birmingham [Warwickshire] (3); Sir Walter Womersley [Minister of Pensions]; Ralegh Phillpotts; General Andrew McNaughton, Canadian Minister of National Defence on retiring from active service, his hopes that the Canadian Army would not be broken up and difficulties with Canadian unity (2); Sarah Millin on subjects including her dramatised account of a meeting between Jan Smuts and Mohandas Gandhi (2); Frederick Montague [later 1st Lord Amwell]; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, on subjects including LSA's illness and the help given to him by the Government of India (3); Sir Arcot Mudaliar on subjects including the political situation in India, particularly the talks between Gandhi and Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of Muslim League Party] (2); Mehmed Munir Bey; John Murray, Principal of the University College of the South West of England; 5th Lord Munster [former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India, earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence]; Jam Saheb, Maharaja of Nawanagar (2); Harold Nicolson; Sir Firoz Khan Noon [Indian representative, British War Cabinet] (2); Sir Patrick Hannon on Noon's tour of Birmingham; Maurice Petherick; Clement Attlee, Lord President of the Council; Morgan Phillips (2); F W Pick (4); Sir Malcolm Robertson [Chairman of the British Council]; H W Harding, Poetry Society (4); Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer [later 1st Lord Waverley]; Montague Rendall; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] (3); Harry Roberts; A L Rowse; Lilian Russell; Sir Leslie Scott (2); Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] on subjects including LSA's views about broadcasting Parliament (2); Sir Oliver Simmonds; Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on subjects including an Institute of Empire Studies, the importance of Indian Ocean policy, Smuts's own problems with the Indian High Commissioner in South Africa, the results of meddling in Greek politics and the war lasting too long (5); Sir Edward Spears [First Minister to Republics of Syria and the Lebanon] on the continuing distrust of the French in the Middle East; Percy Spender [Opposition Member of Australian Advisory War Council] on the Munich Pact, the Australian Prime Minister [John Curtin] and his support for the Empire, Australian public opinion on the Soviet Union and Britain, the difficulties of the Australian Opposition and treatment of Germany after the end of the war; Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on subjects including the future government of Malaya [later Malaysia] (2); Sir Hassan Suhrawardy on the murder of 1st Lord Moyne [Deputy Minister of State, Egypt, earlier Walter Guinness]; [Nicholas] Robin Udal, Secretary of the Athenæum (3); Viorel Tilea; G M Trevelyan; Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to LSA] on Cabinet discussions about pay proposals and demobilisation for the Indian Army, food shipments and a welfare delegation; Sir Hereward Wake (2); Campbell Hone, Bishop of Wakefield on the policy of bombing German civilians; Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell, Viceroy of India (mostly writing to Florence Amery) on subjects including Sir Firoz Khan Noon and Gandhi (6); Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster (2); Sir Frederick Sykes on writing a biography of Sir Henry Wilson; Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson [Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre] thanking LSA for his views on the settlement of Europe in light of military progress in the Balkans and attempts to prevent civil war in Albania; John Winant [United States Ambassador to Britain]; Sybil Wingate on the death of her brother, Major-General Orde Wingate (2); [Estelle] Sylvia Pankhurst, Editor of New Times and Ethiopia News, on publishing LSA's tribute to Orde Wingate; Lorna Wingate; George Engle on publishing LSA's tribute to Orde Wingate in the Charterhouse magazine; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]; Ernest Bevin [Minister of Labour and National Service] on emigration to the Dominions for demobilised troops; 1st Lord Woolton, Minister of Reconstruction [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Sir William Wright, Chairman of the East India Distilleries and Sugar Factories Limited; George Young; Leonard Green, Chairman of the Yugoslav Society of Great Britain. Also includes: Sarah Millin's account of the meeting between Smuts and Gandhi; text of LSA's tribute to Orde Wingate; note by LSA on the broadcasting of Parliament.
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Jan 1944-Dec 1944

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Ian Henderson, Foreign Office; Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre] on subjects including his Indian divisions (4); 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood (2); Victor Altmann (3); [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]; 3rd Lord Selborne [Minister of Economic Warfare, earlier Lord Wolmer]; Sir William Croft [Chief Civil Assistant to Minister of State in Cairo, Egypt]; Walter Amstutz on republishing Winston Churchill's "My Early Life" in German (4); Daniel Macmillan [Chairman and Managing Director of Macmillan and Company Limited] (2); Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer [later 1st Lord Waverley] on economic negotiations with the United States after the war (2); Viola, Lady Apsley; Sir Cyril Ashford; Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, thanking LSA for his generosity on the results of the General Election and regretting that LSA was no longer in Parliament (2); General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief in India, on subjects including the political deadlock in India, the decline in British influence, army pay, progress in Burma [later Myanmar], broadening military training in the future and (writing to Ralegh Phillpotts, Chairman of the British Tabulating Machine Company), the success of the machines in intelligence work (5); 1st Lord Baldwin on subjects including his financial situation and sympathy with LSA over the General Election (5); Penelope Balogh; Jacques Bardoux; Sir Ernest Barker; Robert Barrington-Ward [Editor of the Times] (2); Sir Edward Benthall, Member for War Transport, Governor-General of India's Executive Council; Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including avoiding a premature decision on the status of the South Tyrol and the repatriation of Austrian prisoners of war (4); Sir Shanti Bhatnagar; Princess Marthe Bibesco; 1st Lord Birdwood on subjects including released prisoners of war from the Indian Army, the failure of the Simla Conference on the future of India and the loss of the General Election (8); Edwin Haward, Secretary of the India-Burma Association; Brendan Bracken [First Lord of the Admiralty]; Francis Brett-Young; Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] on LSA's ideas for the post-war Army and the Mountain Warfare School (3); Arthur Bryant (2); Sir Christopher Bullock; Rohan Butler; Lieutenant-General Adrian Carton de Wiart, special military representative with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, on subjects including the visits of Lord Louis Mountbatten [Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia] and Julian Amery to China; Robert Cary [former Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA] on subjects including appointing a new governor for Madras, creating an Empire Trade Secretariat and LSA's part in the development of family allowances (6); Richard Casey, Governor of Bengal (2); Joseph Coudurier de Chassaigne [George Saint-Clair] (3); Lieutenant-General Mark Clark, Commanding General 15th Army Group, on his Indian divisions (2); Sir Bede Clifford; Conway Conway; [Alfred] Duff Cooper [British Ambassador to France, later 1st Lord Norwich]; Sir George Courthope, Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company, on the silver shortage; Cecil, Lady Craigavon (2); Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps on LSA's policy on the government of India (2); Lionel Curtis; Margot, Lady Davson; Sir Hugh Dow, Governor of Sind; George Drew, Prime Minister of Ontario [Canada] on asserting Ontario's future with the Commonwealth; Sir Paul Dukes; 2nd Lord Elibank on his motion about the Most Favoured Nation clause; Ermine, Lady Elibank; Sir [Edward] Lionel Fletcher (2); Sir Frank Fox; A F Frangulis, Permanent Secretary-General of Académie Diplomatique Internationale; 1st Lord Greenwood; Sir Edward Grigg, Minister Resident in the Middle East [later 1st Lord Altrincham] on subjects including his impression of Julian Amery, opportunities missed in East Africa, the situation in Palestine and Syria and avoiding a long-term commitment to the United States (4); 1st Lord Hailey [Chairman of the Colonial Research Committee] on LSA's scheme for an interim Indian constitution; Sir Richard Nosworthy [Minister (Commercial) at Rome, Italy]; 1st Lord Simon, Lord Chancellor; 4th Lord Harlech [earlier William Ormsby-Gore] on the sugar industry of Java [Jawa, Indonesia] and Britain's failure to develop India; [George] Heaton Nicholls [South African High Commissioner in Britain]; Walter Hingston, India Office (2); Quintin Hogg [later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone] thanking LSA for his congratulations on his appointment [as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air]; Lionel James; Sir Roderick Jones on subjects including LSA's statesmanship with India and his sympathy with him over John Amery (2); Bernard Curson [Assistant Private Secretary to LSA]; Alec Joyce, India Office; 1st Lord Lambert; Patrick de Laszlo on setting up factories in India; Sir John Latham; [Beatrice] Violet, Lady Leconfield; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun]; 5th Lord Listowel [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, India Office, earlier Lord Ennismore]; Malcolm MacDonald, British High Commissioner in Canada, on his decision not to stand in the General Election; Sir Dougal Malcolm; Arthur Drew, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, on the repatriation of Austrian prisoners of war; General Sir Richard McCreery [commander of the Eighth Army in Italy] on his Indian divisions; Sir Humphrey Milford, Publisher to the University of Oxford; Charles Mott-Radclyffe on leaving his position [as Parliamentary Private Secretary to LSA]; Mehmed Munir Bey; Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Donald Munro; 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence]; Harry Wimperis, the Athenaeum; Bernard Myers; Harold Nicolson (2); Sir Firoz Khan Noon (writing to Florence Amery); 16th Duke of Norfolk [earlier Lord Arundel] declining the Governorship of Madras; Sir Cyril Norwood (3); Catharine, Lady Norwood (2); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer on subjects including the political situation in South Africa (2); Marie, Lady Willingdon, Chairman of the Over-Seas League, asking LSA to stand for re-election as Vice-President; Sir Arthur Page (3); Gaston Palewski, Private Secretary to Charles de Gaulle; Sir Charles Petrie, Managing Editor, New English Review; Morgan Phillips (3); 1st Lord Queenborough [earlier Almeric Paget]; Sir [Abraham] Jeremy Raisman [Finance Member of Government of India]; Margaret Hornsby-Smith, Ministry of Economic Warfare; Eleanor Rathbone on an amendment to the Family Allowance Bill; Major-General Denys Reid; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; Gisela Richter; Major-General Dudley Russell, Commander, 8th Indian Infantry Division; Duncan Duncan-Sandys, Minister of Works; 1st Lord Schuster [Alpine Club]; James Chuter-Ede, Home Secretary; Anton Bon (3); Raja Sir Maharaj Singh; Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on economic negotiations with the United States, holding on to former Italian colonies in Africa, British territorial losses under the peace treaty, the likely execution of John Amery and the ambitions of the Soviet Union (3); Sir Donald Somervell on his sympathy [over John Amery]; Cornelia Sorabji (2); Wilson Southam, the Ottawa Citizen (4); Harold Spink, Director of Spink and Son Limited, on buying jewellery and paintings from LSA (3); Marie Stopes, President of the Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth-Control; Sir Ronald Storrs on his visit to Egypt; 1st Lord Riverdale [Vice-Chairman of the British Council, earlier Arthur Balfour]; 1st Lord Tyrrell; Henry Strauss [later 1st Lord Conesford]; Frank Taylor, Ministry of War Transport Finance Representative overseas; Viorel Tilea; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet] on Tilea's paper about Romania; [Nicholas] Robin Udal, Secretary of the Athenæum; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff]; G M Trevelyan on the task ahead in the Far East and his concerns about future party factions; Arnold Ward; Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell [Viceroy of India]; 2nd Duke of Westminster [earlier Lord Belgrave]; John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary] to Winston Churchill, Prime Minister; [Arthur] Basil Williams; Malcolm Hay, Chairman of the Orde Wingate Memorial Executive Committee; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Hugh Wyndham [later 4th Lord Leconfield] on Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick's responsibility for the minute's silence on Armistice Day. Also includes: notes by Lady Apsley on a Conservative Travel and Holidays Association and on ways of improving the party machine; draft declaration by LSA on the future government of India; memorandum by Viorel Tilea on Romania's future contribution to an Allied victory.
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Dec 1944-Jan 1946

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: King Abdullah of Transjordan, sending his sympathy [on the execution of John Amery] (2); William Allen [Press Attaché, British Embassy in Turkey]; Victor Altmann (3); Cyril Bailey; [Arthur] Beverley Baxter; Brendan Bracken; 1st Lord Brand; Arthur Bryant (2); Charles Buzzard; Sir Robert Cary, mainly on the India debate (February-March 1946), especially a statement by Clement Attlee [Prime Minister] (February), speeches by Winston Churchill [Leader of the Opposition] and the refusal by [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] to become involved, and also on criticism of Churchill, the general performance of the Labour Government, the loan from the United States and Cary's personal debt to LSA (10); Harold Nicolson; Richard Casey on subjects including his book ["An Australian in India"] and finding a Parliamentary seat in Australia (2); 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] on mistaken policy over the reconstruction of Germany; Percy Cohen [Head of Library and Information Department, Conservative Central Office]; Sydney Coles (4); [Alfred] Duff Cooper [British Ambassador to France, later 1st Lord Norwich] criticising the speech by Churchill at Zurich [Switzerland] on a United States of Europe without Britain; [Edward] Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer on his fund for setting up National Parks; Patrick Donner; George Drew, Prime Minister of Ontario [Canada] on the proposed Washington Loan and its effects on the Empire; Israel Sieff [Vice-Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Marks and Spencer Limited]; Keith Feiling on his biography of [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain; Sir Frank Fox; A F Frangulis [Permanent Secretary-General of Académie Diplomatique Internationale]; 1st Lord Greenwood; George Heaton Nicholls [South African High Commissioner in London]; Sir [James] Bennett Hance, Director-General of the Indian Medical Service; 1st Lord Harmsworth; Sir Cuthbert Headlam on the need to reform the House of Lords; Jan Hofmeyr [South African Minister of Finance and of Education] on the likelihood of Britain being unable to repay the Washington Loan; Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]; Aubrey Jones (2); Sir Clive Baillieu [Deputy Chairman of Dunlop Rubber Company Limited]; 1st Lord McGowan, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (ICI); Hugh Fraser; Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI; Toby Low [later 1st Lord Aldington]; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada; Vincent Massey; Rene Massigli, French Ambassador to Britain; Sir Eugen Millington-Drake (4); C A le Neveu, le Monde, on articles by LSA about India (7); [Ada] Edwina, 3rd Countess Roberts [Ada Edwina Lewin], on finding a biographer for 1st Lord Roberts; Harry Roberts (2); Paul Ruegger on LSA's friendship for Switzerland; Denis Saurat on popularizing Western European union; Guy Scholefield; Franz Seiler (3); Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on subjects including the death of John Amery (2); representatives of Sotheby and Company on LSA's sale of Persian art (3); Wilson Southam, the Ottawa Citizen (6); Percy Spender on subjects including the Washington Loan (2); Dame Elizabeth Cadbury on sending relief to Styria, Austria; Sir Ronald Storrs (2); [Benedict] Humphrey Sumner, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford University; Dame Meriel Talbot; Sir Stephen Tallents; Peter Tennant [Information Counsellor, British Embassy, Paris (France)] on a lecture by LSA in Paris; James Tomlin; 1st Lord Vansittart on the ideas of Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi [President of the Paneuropean Union] (2); 2nd Duke of Westminster [earlier Lord Belgrave]; Leopold Wickham Legg [Joint Editor, Dictionary of National Biography]; Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate; Sir [John] Evelyn Wrench; John Wright [later John Cecil-Wright]. Also includes: text of a speech by George Drew on the co-operation between the Empire and the United States during the war and continuing to co-operate in peace time.
3 files.

Nov 1945-Nov 1947

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Sir [Leslie] Patrick Abercrombie; A V Alexander, Minister of Defence on subjects including LSA's ideas on the National Service Bill (2); [Albert] Spenser Allberry (2); Carleton Allen; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Sir Algernon Aspinall; Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees, on subjects including the chances of civil war in Palestine; [William] Bankes Amery [Head of British Food Mission to Australia] on the food parcels sent to Britain by individual Australians; Robert Barrington-Ward, Editor of the Times (2); Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary] on LSA's implication that he had only just begun supporting the Empire; Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter, Chairman of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; Robert Boothby on passing a resolution on Conservative trade and Empire policy and his book ["I Fight to Live"] (8); Caroline, Lady Bridgeman; Sir Harold Butler on subjects including devolution; Archibald Campbell (3); Sir Ernest Canning; Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain]; Sir Robert Cary; Joseph Coudurier de Chassaigne [George Saint-Clair] (3); Alfred Chotzner (2); Sir George Cockerill; Lionel Curtis; John Corbin (3); John Craik-Henderson, Chairman of the Group considering the British Parliamentary System, on LSA becoming a member of his group; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, thanking LSA for a memorandum; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher to the University of Oxford, asking LSA to write the introduction for Anthony Trollope's "The Prime Minister"; [Edward] Hugh Dalton, thanking LSA for his sympathy [on his departure as Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Richard Denman, suggesting that LSA might become a director of the Highlands and Lowlands Rubber Company (3); 17th Lord Derby, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire [earlier Lord Stanley] on Julian Amery standing as a Parliamentary candidate for Preston; Walter Harte, Secretary of the Devonshire Association (2); Eric Dutton [Chief Secretary, Zanzibar] on Empire economic affairs, particularly the ill effects of the Washington Loan and the risks of building up a standard of living which smaller colonies could not maintain; Walter Elliot; A F Frangulis, Permanent Secretary-General of Académie Diplomatique Internationale (2); Hector McNeil [Minister of State, Foreign Office] on the Académie Diplomatique Internationale; Dame Katharine Furse; Leslie Gamage; Viola Garvin on the death of J L Garvin; Edward Gilman (2); George Gooch, Editor of the Contemporary Review; Sir William Goodenough, Chairman of Barclays Bank Limited; Arthur Greenwood; William Hadley [Editor of the Sunday Times]; Sir William Haley, Director-General of the BBC, inviting LSA to join the BBC's General Advisory Council; 1st Lord Hall [First Lord of the Admiralty] on naval statues for Trafalgar Square [London]; [Ronald] Olaf Hambro [Chairman of Hambros Bank Limited]; Sir Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal; Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith [Vice-Chairman, Refugees Defence Committee]; Sir Hubert Henderson; Sir Alan Herbert; [Maurice] Christopher Hollis on dealing with the United States over tariffs; Sir William Furse (2); Vincent Massey; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] (2); William Hughes; Amir Abdul Illah [Prince Regent of Iraq]; Aubrey Jones (2); Sir Mohamed Akbar Khan; 3rd Lord Leconfield [earlier Charles Wyndham]; Rene Leon; representatives of the Royal Society of Literature (3); 2nd Lord Lloyd on going into politics; Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd on the results of local elections in Birmingham [Warwickshire] and the state of the Conservative vote; Sir Arthur Longmore (2); Pamela, Lady Lytton on the death of 2nd Lord Lytton; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, on proposals by LSA for settling trade and exchange problems, Canada's dollar shortage and his own impending retirement from office (3); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Sir Simon Marks; Harry Meade; 2nd Lord Mersey [earlier Charles Bigham]; Sir Eugen Millington-Drake (3); Sir [Clement] Anderson Montague-Barlow; Nigel Nicolson, Assistant Editor of Contact Publications Limited; Gaston Palewski [Private Secretary to Charles de Gaulle]; Maurice Petherick; Sir Ralegh Phillpotts; Sir [Frederick] John Pollock; Eva, Lady Reading, President of the British section of the World Jewish Congress; 3rd Countess Roberts [earlier (Ada) Edwina Lewin] (3); J Mark, Private Secretary to Lord Pakenham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [later 7th Lord Longford] on the trial of Prince Anton Rohan (3); Sir George Franckenstein; [Cicely] Alice, Lady Salisbury, on the death of 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne]; Sir Arthur Salter on past army reform, particularly relating to 1st Lord Haldane; Lord Sandon [later 6th Lord Harrowby]; Sir Leslie Scott; Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on subjects including LSA's plan to visit India, the political and economic crisis in Britain and the growing threat to Europe from the Soviet Union (3); James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip] on LSA's request to broadcast on Empire policy; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, then Philip Cunliffe-Lister] on the need to redefine the Conservative Party; Ivor Thomas [Parliamentary Under-Sec. of State for the Colonies, later Ivor Bulmer-Thomas]; 2nd Lord Tweedsmuir [earlier John Buchan]; Thomas Utley [Peter Utley], the Observer, on journalism for the Dominions; Terence de Vere White on his biography of Kevin O'Higgins; Sir Fabian Ware on his decision to retire as Vice-Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission; [Henry] Wilson Harris, Editor of the Spectator; 1st Lord Winster [Governor of Cyprus, earlier Reginald Fletcher] on suggestions by LSA that Cypriots should pass on to Colonial service elsewhere, on Cyprus's status and the chances of Greece taking over the administration (2); Seyyid, Sultan of Zanzibar. Other subjects include: the constitutional development of India; a heart attack suffered by LSA. Also includes: text of broadcast by Winston Churchill [Leader of the Opposition] on the failure of the Labour Government, sent to LSA by Sir Robert Cary as the best thing Churchill had done since the Election; text of suggested speech by LSA for [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] on Empire policy.
3 files.

Jul 1946-Jan 1948

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: George Shreeve, Deputy Director-General, British Council; Sir Ronald Adam, Chairman and Director-General of the British Council; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali on the massacres following the hand-over of power in India; John Astor [Director of the Phoenix Assurance Company]; Clement Attlee, Prime Minister; Sir Girja Bajpai [Secretary-General of Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India]; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury] on subjects including the United Europe movement being taken over by Federalists (2); Robert Boothby; 1st Lord Brand on a federal Europe and the situation in Palestine (3); Arthur Bryant (3); Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain] on subjects including a broadcast by LSA about Joseph Chamberlain (3); Richard Casey; Hilda Chamberlain; Sir Harold Claughton; Sir [Arthur] James Steel-Maitland; Sir Piers Debenham (2); George Drew, Prime Minister of Ontario [then Leader of Conservative Party of Canada] on subjects including Canadian borrowing (2); Walter Elliot on subjects including keeping Winston Churchill [Leader of the Conservative Party] involved in discussions with Chaim Weizmann [President of the Israeli Provisional Council] and on British policy towards Palestine (4); Herbert Evatt; Sir Frank Fox; A F Frangulis [Permanent Secretary-General of Académie Diplomatique Internationale]; Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle on a possible attack on France by the Soviet Union and results for Britain; Sir Ralph Furse, Adviser on Training Courses for the Colonial Service; 2nd Lord Goschen, promising to support LSA if he stood for the Oxford University Parliamentary seat; Sir Lancelot Graham, the Royal Empire Society; Arthur Greenwood; Olive Heseltine (4); Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe]; Emrys Hughes on LSA's article on Mohandas Gandhi; [Mary] Catharine Inge (2); Lionel James (3); Sir Clement Jones, Chairman of the Commonwealth Shipping Committee on the committee's report on West Indian shipping; Sir Roderick Jones (2); Timothy Jones (3); [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] on subjects including his approaching retirement and LSA's article in tribute to Gandhi (7); Charles Kirkpatrick on LSA's Gandhi article; Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] (2); Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos] on economic multilateralism (2); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Vincent Massey; Violet, Lady Milner; Sir Eustace Missenden, Chairman of the Railway Executive; Sir David Monteath [Under-Secretary of State for Burma] (2); Sir [Arthur] Clive Morrison-Bell; 1st Lord Mountbatten on his departure as [Governor-General of India]; Walter Nash, Minister of Finance, New Zealand, on the Havana Conference [Cuba] and the resulting charter for an international trade organization (2); Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India; Godfrey Nicholson on the difficulty of finding a new Parliamentary seat for LSA, because of his age; Philip Noel-Baker [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations], writing to LSA and Lord Zetland on subjects including the Scarbrough and Zetland Reports on the possibility of setting up an Oriental Centre in London (4); 2nd Lord Zetland [earlier Lawrence Dundas], writing to Noel-Baker, on the Government's decision not to publish his report; Noel Odell; Dame Beryl Oliver, Director of Education, British Red Cross Society; Sir Ernest Oppenheimer; Lady Delia Peel, Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth, on LSA's speech on the wedding of Princess Elizabeth; 1st Lord Pethick-Lawrence on LSA's review of Winston Churchill's war memoirs, disagreeing with LSA's view that the Labour Party would have been willing to have Lord Halifax as Prime Minister, rather than Churchill (2); Sir Charles Rey on reasons for the defeat of Jan Smuts in the South African elections, including the unpopularity of Jan Hofmeyr [former Deputy Prime Minister], the Government's lack of native policy, administration of wartime controls and Smuts's recognition of Israel just before the election and also provocative measures by the new Nationalist Government, the widespread nature of apartheid and the state of the native reserves; 11th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Sir Lawrence Lumley] on the future of the India Office library; Raja Sir Maharaj Singh, Governor of Bombay, on his appointment; Jan Smuts on subjects including LSA's article on Gandhi, the ruin of Palestine and his recognition of Israel, the loss of the General Election and the new form of the Commonwealth (7); 1st Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham]; Percy Spender on the need for closer collaboration between the economic advisers of Britain and the Dominions, particularly Australia; Oliver Stanley on the deplorable situation in Palestine; James Stuart on standing down [as Chief Opposition Whip]; [Frank] Showell Styles; Alexander Symon, Acting High Commissioner for Britain in India, on the news that the Indian Army had moved into Hyderabad [? Pakistan]; Brendan Bracken; Sir John Thornycroft (writing to LSA and Sir Robert Gould, Chief Industrial Commissioner, Ministry of Labour and National Service) on the economic situation, particularly the effect of wage increases (2); Sir Samuel Turner; Sir Duncan Watson, President of the Imperial Industries Club; Wilfred Wellock; Thomas White (3); [Henry] Wilson Harris [Editor of the Spectator]; Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour] on his agreement with LSA over Western union; Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York on the United Europe movement.
2 files.

Jan 1948-Dec 1948

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alexander [Governor-General of Canada]; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on subjects including recalling his time as Assistant Editor of the Outlook with J L Garvin (2); Clement Attlee, Prime Minister; Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees; Thomas Balogh; Jacques Bardoux on the decline of the Communist Party in France and the death of his wife (2); Sir Ernest Barker; Enid Moberly Bell; 1st Lord Birdwood; Robert Boothby [delegate to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe] on the assembly becoming bogged down and the world economic crisis (3); Roy Bridges; Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland [later 1st Lord Brookeborough] on the results of the Northern Irish elections; 1st Lord Broughshane [earlier William Davison] on LSA standing as Parliamentary candidate [for South Kensington, London]; Arthur Bryant (2); Andrew Burn; Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick, Honourable Company of Master Mariners, writing to LSA and Sir Simon Marks, Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Marks and Spencer Limited (4); Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain]; Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham] (2); Richard Casey on the scale of the Liberal Party's victory in the Australian elections; Desmond Flower, Literary Director of Cassell and Company Limited on LSA's autobiography (2); Arthur Creech Jones [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Sir Ronald Cross; Julian Crossley; Geoffrey Crowther, Editor of the Economist; Henry Dalzell Payne (2); Clement Davies; 10th Duke of Devonshire [earlier Lord Hartington] on his niece, Catherine Macmillan, becoming engaged to Julian Amery; Sir Hugh Dow [Consul-General, Jerusalem] on hostilities between Arabs and Israelis in Jerusalem and trying to agree on a shared Middle Eastern policy with the United States (2); George Drew, Leader of the Opposition, Canada, on the worsening trade relations between Britain and Canada (3); David Eccles on the Labour Government's dangerous economic policy, the risk of the sterling area collapsing and his attempts to push British economic policy at the Council of Europe (3); Sir Frank Fox; A F Frangulis, Permanent Secretary-General of Académie Diplomatique Internationale; Sir Ralph Furse; Charles Gos; [William] Keith Hancock [Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies] on the role of the institute; Sir Patrick Hannon on subjects including LSA's resignation as President of his local branch of the Navy League (2); George Harrap, George G Harrap and Company Limited, regretting that they could not publish LSA's autobiography; Sir Hubert Henderson [Professor of Political Economy, Oxford University] on LSA's fears of the effects of devaluation, exchange rates and the advantages of Canada keeping to sterling (3); Patrick Hodgson; Sir Robert Holland on the unfeasibility of European federalism and the failure of the "One-World" idea; Sir William Houstoun-Boswall [British Minister at Beirut, Lebanon] on subjects including the demoralised state of the Arabs and an attempted coup by the Parti Populaire Syrien; John Howard on the possibility of LSA standing as a Parliamentary candidate for Bedford; William Hughes on his party's success in the Australian elections; William Inge; Lionel James on LSA's autobiography; 1st Lord Kennet [earlier (Edward) Hilton Young]; [William] Mackenzie King on subjects including Florence Amery's illness (3); Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine] on the possibility of LSA standing as his successor [as MP for South Kensington]; Frederick Lister (2); Arnold Lunn, President of the Ski Club of Great Britain; 1st Lord Lyle of Westbourne [President of Tate and Lyle, Limited], regretting that there was no vacancy for LSA on the Board of Directors; Sir Dougal Malcolm, President of the British South Africa Company, on the difficulty of bringing LSA back onto the Board; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] on subjects including Britain's decline into bankruptcy (2); Sir Simon Marks, thanking LSA for his part in Britain's friendlier policy towards Israel; Vincent Massey on the strong feeling in Canada against British commercial policy; Sir Ion Hamilton Benn; Sir Ernest Oppenheimer commenting on the futility of financial conferences, particularly on the false valuation of sterling (2); Sir Ralegh Phillpotts; David Pyke (4); Lady Katharine Seymour [Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth], sending the Queen's sympathy on Florence Amery's stroke; Sir Charles Rey on the first year of the new South African Nationalist Government, its severance of ties with Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth, the apartheid policy and Seretse Khama [King of the Bangwato] (2); Duncan Duncan-Sandys; 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary], Rhodes Trust; Sir Leslie Scott; 19th Lord Sempill [earlier William Forbes-Sempill] on a debate on Newfoundland [Canada]; [Arnold] John Hugh Smith on the Coefficients Club, including George Bernard Shaw, H G Wells and J L Garvin (2); Jan Smuts on subjects including the repercussions of sterling's devaluation (4); Francis Smythe on the need for Winston Churchill to resign as Leader of the Conservative Party, in favour of a younger man; William Downie Stewart; James Stuart; [Frank] Showell Styles; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, then Philip Cunliffe-Lister]; Angela Thirkell; G M Trevelyan on LSA's book "Thought and Language"; Sir [Charles] Dennistoun Burney; Viorel Tilea (2); Henry Usborne, Founder, Parliamentary Group for World Government; Terence de Vere White on his biography of Kevin O'Higgins (4); Alfred Wadsworth, Editor of the Manchester Guardian; William Casey, Editor of the Times; Admiral Sir Martin Dunbar-Nasmith, Vice-Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, on LSA's tribute to Sir Fabian Ware, founder of the commission; Anna, Lady Ware; Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate (2); Percival Witherby (9); Seyyid, Sultan of Zanzibar; Sir William Strang [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office]. Also includes: note by Lord Swinton on Preference and Most Favoured Nation status as relating to Palestine.
3 files.

Jan 1948-Dec 1949

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees (2); Jacques Bardoux (2); Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter on his resignation as Chairman of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; Ivor Brown; Andrew Burn (2); Sir Montague Burton; R A Butler [Chairman of the Conservative Party's Advisory Committee on Policy] thanking LSA for his praise of the Conservative Manifesto; Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain]; Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham] (2); Richard Casey, Australian Minister of Works and Housing and of National Development (2); Joseph Coudurier de Chassaigne [George Saint-Clair]; Randolph Churchill; Sir William Clark [Chairman of the Royal Empire Society]; Eric Pridie, Chief Medical Officer, Colonial Office, on studies in anti-malarial work; Colin Coote [Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph]; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, thanking LSA for his sympathy on his retirement from ill health; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher to Oxford University, on LSA's miscellaneous writings (2); Sir Hugh Dow [Consul-General, Jerusalem] on a partition of Jerusalem between Israel and the Arabs and stalemate between Israel and Jordan; John Dulanty; Leif Egeland, South African High Commissioner in London (2); Walter Elliot; [Andrew] Hamilton Gault; V Halperin on his biography of 1st Lord Milner (4); 1st Lord Hankey on LSA's autobiography, recalling the war crisis of 1911; Sir Patrick Hannon; Sir Alfred Hennessy; Sir Robert Hodgson; [Margaret] Patricia Hornsby-Smith, thanking LSA for his help in her election campaign; William Hughes on the forthcoming British elections and Australian political situation; 1st Lord Simon on the death of Olive Heseltine; [William] Mackenzie King; Sir Alec Kirkbride; Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] on LSA's suggestion of 2nd Lord Tweedsmuir [earlier John Buchan] as [?] a future Governor-General of Canada; Sir John Latham; Dame Enid Lyons, thanking LSA for his congratulations on her appointment to the Australian Cabinet; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] on subjects including Julian Amery, the lack of inspiration in the Conservative Party and LSA's autobiography and miscellaneous writings (3); Don Salvador de Madariaga; Vincent Massey (2); Edwin Monro, Chairman of the National Rifle Association (2); [Isabelle] Hope Muntz (6); Sir John Murray, senior director of John Murray, publishers [and editor of the Quarterly Review] on subjects including V Halperin's biography of 1st Lord Milner (5); Mary Noyes; Reginald Paget on the development of armoured forces and National Service; Israel Sieff [Vice-President, World Jewish Congress] (2); James Parkes on the divisions between pro-Israeli and pro-Arab supporters over Palestine (2); Sir Arthur Pickard-Cambridge; [Christian] Paul Pineau (2); 1st Lord Reith on taking up the Chairmanship of the Colonial Development Corporation; Sir Charles Rey commenting on political corruption in South Africa and the Immorality Bill; General Sir Brian Robertson, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces, on LSA's Middle East Defence paper and commenting on the British position in Egypt; Ronald Russell on a proposal by Italy for a European preferential tariff area; Sir Reginald St Johnston; Sir [James] Arthur Salter (writing to LSA and William Casey, Editor of the Times) on emergency food storage in case of a submarine blockade, European tariffs and whether to stand for election again (5); 1st Lord Samuel; Sir Maharaj Singh, Governor of Bombay [India] on LSA's tribute to Jan Smuts and the different Indian view; Jan Smuts on subjects including LSA's decision not to stand for election and the Soviet Union's ambitions in the Far East (4); Nona Smythe on Frank Smythe's biography; Percy Spender, Australian Minister for External Affairs, on subjects including the situation in the Middle East and Empire economic relations (2); Freya Stark; Edgar Stogdon (2); Marie Stopes; Sir Ronald Storrs; Angela Thirkell (3); Sir [Sydney] Richard Wells on LSA standing as an election candidate for Bedford (2); Thomas White, Australian Minister for Air and Civil Aviation on the results of the Australian elections, hopes of a similar result for Britain and increased scope in aviation following the development of the jet engine; Edgar Williams, Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, asking LSA to write the entry for Jan Smuts; Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate (with note to Wingate from Admiral Sir Walter Cowan).
3 files.

Jan 1950-Dec 1950

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] asking LSA to write an article on the state of sterling; Sir Denis Boyd, Principal of Ashridge College; Clement Attlee on receiving the Order of Merit; David Ben-Gurion; Sir Ernest Benn; John Biggs-Davison on his biography of George Wyndham; Sir Oswald Birley; Basil Blackwell [Chairman of Basil Blackwell and Mott Limited] on LSA's "The Elizabethan Spirit" and his miscellaneous writings (3); William Bowly on LSA's autobiography, recalling his time at the War Office [as Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, 1918-19]; Sir [Harold] Leslie Boyce, Lord Mayor of London; Brendan Bracken on leaving the House of Commons (2); James Butler; Arthur Bryant (2); R A Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer on his appointment and general policy between partners in the Sterling Area (2); Charles Hill [Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food]; [Margaret] Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health; Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain]; Richard Casey, Australian Minister of Works and Housing and of National Development on the political stalemate in Australia; William Casey [Editor of the Times] on LSA's autobiography; Sir Felix Cassel; Joseph Coudurier de Chassaigne [George Saint-Clair]; Margaret, Lady Cochrane; Alec Joyce [Head of Information Department, Commonwealth Relations Office], on subjects including Empire Day (2); Sir Reginald Coupland; Alice Crawley, recalling LSA's meetings with Florence Nightingale; Dame Isobel Cripps on the health of Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps (3); Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher to Oxford University on LSA's selection of speeches "India and Freedom"; Lionel Curtis (2); Noel Barber, Editor of the Daily Mail; Sir Geoffrey Davson [later Sir Anthony Glyn] on being put up for the Alpine Club; Claude Elliott [President of the Alpine Club]; Sir Wyndham Deedes; [?] Mary, Duchess of Devonshire; Sir Hugh Dow [Consul-General, Jerusalem] on the chances of King Abdullah of Jordan making peace with Israel and the advantages of Britain concentrating economic aid for the region in Jordan; Alan Dower (2); [John] Aubrey Edgcumbe [former Private Secretary to LSA as Secretary of State for the Colonies] on LSA's autobiography, recalling his achievements; Eliahu Elath [Israeli Ambassador to Britain]; Walter Elliot (2); Charles Fay; 1st Lord Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand; Douglas Glover; Pieter Gerbrandy on the effects of proportional representation and the socialist trend; Maive Goodenough; Leonard Green, Chairman of the Yugoslav Society of Great Britain and of the Save the Children Fund (2); 1st Lord Greene; [William] Keith Hancock [Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London] (3); 1st Lord Hankey on LSA's autobiography (3); F W Heath, Odhams Press Limited, on subjects including LSA's autobiography and a biography of 1st Lord Milner (6); Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand (2); Leslie Hore-Belisha; 1st Lord Ismay [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations] on subjects including the Commonwealth Migration Council, the case for transferring the Protectorates of Swaziland, Bechuanaland [later Botswana] and Basutoland [later Lesotho] to South Africa and also Julian Amery (4); [Frank] Cyril James on subjects including the dangers of hostilities between the United States and China (2); Ernest Jansen [Governor-General of South Africa]; Richard Jebb; Sir Clement Jones; Sir Roderick Jones on subjects including his time in South Africa and Emanuel Shinwell's respect for LSA (5); 1st Lord Kemsley [Chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Limited, earlier James Berry] on his Empire Journalists Scheme; Sir Alec Kirkbride [British Minister in Libya]; Ronald Carton on LSA's tribute to David Lamb; Sir Alan Lascelles on the biography of 1st Lord Chelmsford [earlier Frederic Thesiger]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; Basil Liddell Hart; Oliver Lyttelton [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Chandos] on subjects including the possibilities of self-government for Malaya [later Malaysia] (4); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] on the Government's irresponsibility; Daniel Malan [Prime Minister of South Africa]; Sir Dougal Malcolm (2); Max Mallowan [Director, British School of Archæology in Iraq]; [Alfred] Ernest Marples, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government, on housing construction (2); Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Kilmuir] on European attitudes to Britain; Violet, Lady Milner; William Morrison, Speaker of the House of Commons [later 1st Lord Dunrossil] on taking on the job of Speaker; Vice-Admiral 1st Lord Mountbatten, 4th Sea Lord; Lewis Namier [Professor of Modern History, Manchester University], on the condemnation of the White Paper on Palestine in 1930; Harold Nicolson (2); Cecily Niven (3); Alfred Noyes (2); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer; Osbert Peake [later 1st Lord Ingleby]; Sir Charles Rey on subjects including the apartheid policy in South Africa, maladministration of the Protectorates, witch-doctor murders in Basutoland [later Lesotho] and the state of the Nationalist and United parties (2); Dermot Morrah, Editor of the Round Table; Sir [James] Arthur Salter, Minister of State for Economic Affairs on subjects including LSA's views about Most Favoured Nation status and inducing Canada to join the Sterling Area (3); 1st Lord Samuel on a proposal to present a bronze Menorah by Benno Elkan to the Israel Knesset (2); Duncan Duncan-Sandys, Minister of Supply on LSA's views on reorganizing the steel industry after nationalization; Emanuel Shinwell, Minister of Defence, on LSA's suggestions, particularly for a military base on the Sinai peninsula [Egypt] (2); Marcus Sieff on his memorandum on the Middle East; Albertus Geyer, South African High Commissioner in London; Sir Ronald Storrs; Camilla Sykes; Sir Stephen Tallents on his history of the Empire Marketing Board; G M Trevelyan; J P R Wallis on his biography of Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick (3); Siegmund Warburg, Managing Director of S. G. Warburg and Company Limited; Anna, Lady Ware; Sir Herbert Williams; 1st Lord Winster [earlier Reginald Fletcher]; Leonard Green, Chairman, Yugoslav Society of Great Britain (2); Isabel, Lady Hutton; James Parkes. Also includes: index to all correspondents; notes by LSA on forms of self-government for the colonies; papers on the refugee appeal by the Children's World Community Chest.
4 files.

Jan 1951-Mar 1952

Correspondence: journalism and reviews. Correspondents include: Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch, on his book "Winston Churchill by his contemporaries"; [Henry] Wilson Harris, Editor of the Spectator, on LSA's review of a biography of 1st Lord Baldwin, also proposing an article on 1st Lord Milner and on Jean van der Poel's "The Jameson Raid" (3); Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher to the University of Oxford; Basil Nicolls, Acting-Director-General of the BBC, inviting LSA to serve on the BBC's General Advisory Council; [George] Ronald Lewin, Organiser of the BBC Third Programme Talks, asking LSA to broadcast on the relationship between the Crown and the Prime Minister (2); Lionel Curtis (writing to LSA and V Halperin) on Halperin's biography of 1st Lord Milner (2); Violet, Lady Milner (2); John Astor; Cecilia Dawson on LSA's broadcast about the history of the Times, particularly her late husband [Geoffrey Dawson, earlier Geoffrey Robinson, Editor]; Donald Baverstock, Producer, BBC General Overseas Service, asking LSA to take part in discussions to mark the statute of Westminster and on changes in the Commonwealth (2); Charles Curran, Assistant Editor of the Evening Standard on LSA's article on Jawaharlal Nehru; Sir Dougal Malcolm on LSA's review of Jean van der Poel's "The Jameson Raid" (2); Arthur Bryant; [William] Keith Hancock [Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies] on van der Poel; representatives of Odhams Press Limited on V Halperin's biography of 1st Lord Milner (10); Henry Hodson [Editor of the Sunday Times] on LSA's tribute to 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun]; Sir William Haley [Director General of the BBC]; 1st Lord Clydesmuir [earlier (David) John Colville, Governor of the BBC]; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on the Milner biography. Also includes: text of LSA's review for "The Founding of the Second British Empire" by Vincent Harlow [Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth, Oxford]; notes for a possible broadcast on an united Europe.
1 file.

May 1951-Nov 1952

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; Nancy, Lady Astor, thanking LSA for his sympathy on the death of 2nd Lord Astor; Jacques Bardoux; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst] on helping LSA with agricultural policy questions (4); P Clavell Blount (3); 1st Lord Brand on the disadvantages of financial aid from the United States; Leonard Brockington; Arthur Bryant (2); 1st Lord Bruce, Chairman of the Finance Corporation for Industry Limited; James Butler [Regius Professor of Modern History]; R A Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including giving financial aid to Israel (2); Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain]; Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham]; Sir Robert Cary on Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, being out of date, particularly on economic policy, on the performance of the rest of the Conservative leadership and on the declining standards of the civil service (2); William Casey, Editor of the Times, on his approaching retirement; Sir Henry Clay on raising tariffs; Sir [Peter] Alexander Clutterbuck [British High Commissioner in India]; 5th Lord Salisbury [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, earlier Lord Cranborne] on the Indian Criminal Tribes Act; Dermot Morrah [Editor of the Round Table]; 1st Lord Norwich [earlier Alfred Duff Cooper]; Malcolm Cooper [Professor of Agriculture, University of London]; [Edward] James Corbett; Joseph Coudurier de Chassaigne [George Saint-Clair]; [George] Beresford Craddock; Lionel Curtis (3); Patrick de Laszlo on ship design (2); John Diefenbaker on the need for close co-operation between the Commonwealth and the United States; Frederick Doidge, High Commissioner for New Zealand in London; Sir Hugh Dow; George Drew, Leader of the Canadian Opposition on relations with the Commonwealth and the United States; Sir Thomas Dugdale [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, later 1st Lord Crathorne]; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain, on memorials to Chaim Weizmann and Jan Smuts (3); Benno Elkan on his bronze Menorah for the Israeli Knesset; Walter Elliot on LSA's writing about agricultural policy; 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary, Rhodes Trust]; Herbert Finberg; [1st Lord Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand]; Michael Huxley, Editor of the Geographical Magazine; Kenneth Goodenough, British High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] on the centenary of Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit; John Griffith, lecturer in administrative law, University of London; 1st Lord Schuster on LSA's tribute to Sir Maurice Gwyer (2); Sir Percivale Liesching [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office] on Gwyer and the Statute of Westminster (2); Sir Edward Harding [former Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office] on Gwyer; Louisa Haldane; Ronald Hall [Secretary, Economic League for European Co-operation (British Section)]; [William] Keith Hancock [Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies]; Sir Patrick Hannon (2); Vincent Harlow [Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth, University of Oxford] (2); Nicolaas Havenga [South African Minister of Finance] on inequalities in gold prices with the United States (2); Sir Robert Ho Tung; Albert Hunt; David Eccles, Minister of Works; A F Frangulis, Permanent Secretary-General of Académie Diplomatique Internationale; [Ferdinand] Stephen Joelson on the United Central Africa Association; Sir Cecil Kisch; George Kitson Clark; Martin Lindsay; [? 5th Lord Listowel, earlier Lord Ennismore]; 1st Lord Llewellin on his Empire delegation to Canada; 1st Lord Lyle of Westbourne; Oliver Lyttelton [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Chandos] on the lack of support for any extension of the preferential system, or any change to GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Sir Dougal Malcolm; Mar Shimun, Patriarch of Assyria; Canon John Douglas (2); Vincent Massey; Sir Ivor Maxse; David Maxwell-Fyfe, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Kilmuir]; Patrick Mayhew, President, Oxford Union Society (2); Sarah Millin; Violet, Lady Milner (2); Dermot Morrah, [Editor] of the Round Table, on the Rhodes centenary; Harold Nicolson on his biography of King George V; Sir Ernest Oppenheimer on subjects including the Smuts Fund and the South African constitution (3); Guy Chilver, Editor of the Oxford Magazine (2); Sir Edward Peacock (2); Maurice Petherick (2); 1st Lord Ismay [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations] on the possible transfer of Swaziland to South Africa; [Christian] Paul Pineau; C R Potter (4); Sir Harry Railing on economic co-operation within the Commonwealth; 2nd Lord Reading [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, earlier Lord Erleigh] on the sovereignty of Sinai [Egypt] and the possibility of converting it and the Canal Zone to an international trusteeship; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on the status of Sinai; 1st Lord Reith on the chairmanship of the Colonial Development Corporation; Sir Charles Rey on the likely success of the Nationalist Party in the next South African elections, the poor state of the United Party, anti-apartheid protest in Britain and the state of apartheid in South Africa; Ivor Bulmer-Thomas [earlier Ivor Thomas]; William Robson, the Political Quarterly; Ronald Russell; Louis St Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada; Sir [James] Arthur Salter, Minister of State for Economic Affairs, on subjects including his views on GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] (4); Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso]; Sir Waldron Smithers (2); Isie Smuts [Sybella Smuts]; Finola, Lady Somers on whether Britain would recognize King Farouk of Egypt as King of Sudan; 1st Lord Swinton [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, then Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, then Philip Cunliffe-Lister] on subjects including whether the Government of Pakistan would stay with the Crown or declare Pakistan a republic and on preference (3); [George] Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade on LSA's views about GATT; Arnold Toynbee; Paul Vellacott, Master of Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge (3); Siegmund Warburg; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (3); Karl Weber (5); Sir Cecil Weir [Head of British Delegation to High Authority of European Coal and Steel Community] on LSA's "Towards a Balanced Economy" and on assisting the development of poorer economies (2); Edgar Williams [Editor] of the Dictionary of National Biography; E L R Williamson, consulting economist (4); Chester Wilmot [Reginald Wilmot]; Sir [John] Evelyn Wrench, [Editor] of the Spectator, recalling Geoffrey Dawson [earlier Geoffrey Robinson], Editor of the Times (2); Woodrow Wyatt on his book [? "Southwards from China"]. Also includes: index to all correspondents; text of lecture by [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali on Islamic and Western impacts; American Tariff League bulletin on controversy over American trade policy and protectionism; text of a broadcast by Leonard Brockington on the royal visit to Canada; text of article by LSA in tribute to Sir Maurice Gwyer; interim report of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Board; text of Lord Swinton's speech on preference, made at the Commonwealth Conference.
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Nov 1951-Jan 1953

Correspondence A - M. Correspondents include: Rosalind, Duchess of Abercorn; Konrad Adenauer [Chancellor of West Germany]; Cyril Alington; John Allen; John Astor [owner of the Times] on LSA's hopes for an Imperial Preference policy being unrealistic; Nancy, Lady Astor; Archduke Robert of Austria (2); Thomas Balogh; Jacques Bardoux; [George] Herbert Baxter (2); Edward Beddington-Behrens; Kenneth Goodenough, British High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; Princess Marthe Bibesco; John Biggs-Davison on the Conservative Commonwealth Council (3); 2nd Lord Birdwood; 2nd Lord Birkenhead [earlier Lord Furneaux]; Sir [Harold] Leslie Boyce; 1st Lord Brand; Leonard Brockington; Lennox Broster, Governor of London House [later Goodenough College]; Arthur Bryant on subjects including a hostile article on Cecil Rhodes and policy on Egypt (9); W J Busschau (4); R A Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain] (2); Sir Olaf Caroe; Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham] (2); Roger Cary; Anne Chamberlain; [Ernest] Owen Clough; George Cole; Sir [Patrick] Ashley Cooper; [George] Beresford Craddock; Virginia Crawley [Virginia Cowles] asking LSA to review her biography of Winston Churchill; Frances, Lady Davidson [later Baroness Northchurch] on LSA's criticism of Stanley Baldwin in his memoirs (3); Margot, Lady Davson asking LSA to address the Royal Empire Society summer school (2); Hugh Dawes; Oliver Dawnay, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, thanking LSA for his help with a speech by the Queen Mother; Patrick de Laszlo; Canon John Douglas on [the Assyrian Patriarch] Mar Shimun; Alan Dower; George Drew, Canadian Leader of the Opposition on the hostility of Louis St Laurent [Prime Minister of Canada] to the Commonwealth and misrepresentation of a speech by Drew on Commonwealth preferences; Eric Dutton [former Chief Secretary, Zanzibar] on Sultan Seyyid of Zanzibar's wish to see LSA; Charles Eade, asking LSA to contribute to or review "Churchill by his contemporaries" (3); Leif Egeland; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain, on subjects including the urgent need for a working arrangement between Israel and the Arabs (4); Zehava Elath on sculpting LSA's head; Stanley Evans; Theodore Feilden (3); Geoffrey Finsberg, asking LSA to help with an appeal to strengthen Imperial Preference; Canon John Firth on Montague Rendall and the history of Rhodes scholarships; David Quinn, Professor of History, University College, Swansea; Walter Harte [Emeritus Professor of History, University College of the South West of England]; John Foster [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office] on subjects including keeping the Gold Coast [later Ghana] in the Commonwealth (2); Christina Foyle, asking LSA to lecture for Foyle's Lecture Agency; Charles de Gaulle; [Willoughby] Clive Garsia; Viola Garvin on the memorial to J L Garvin (7); [Leonard] David Gammans; [Charles] Sydney Goldman, recalling J L Garvin and the Outlook newspaper; 1st Lord Geddes commenting on the publication of Field Marshal 1st Lord Haig's diaries for 1917-18; Sir Alexander Godley, congratulating LSA on his memoirs, particularly on the South African War and Northern Ireland; Nubar Gulbenkian; 1st Lord Hailey on subjects including the United Central African Association; Louisa Haldane (2); 3rd Lord Halsbury, Managing Director of the National Research Development Corporation [earlier Lord Tiverton]; Sir Charles Hambro; Professor Sir [William] Keith Hancock, on his biography of Jan Smuts (3); Claude Elliott; Maurice Headlam (2); Helena Hirst on the death of Francis Hirst; [Maurice] Christopher Hollis, Chairman of Hollis and Carter Limited, publishers; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe]; Sir Godfrey Huggins [later 1st Lord Malvern], Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland [later Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi] on the referendum on Protectorate status and admitting a quota of Africans to Salisbury University (2); Dame Mary Hughes; Jay Humphries, former secretary to LSA (3); Lionel James; Ronald Jasper on his biography of Arthur Headlam; Sir Charles Jeffries on LSA's decision to bring Sir Samuel Wilson into the Colonial Office (2); Eric Johnson; Sir Roderick Jones on subjects including LSA's memoirs and eightieth birthday (6); Sir David Kelly; Richard Law, Chairman of the Central and Eastern European Commission [later 1st Lord Coleraine]; Edwin Leather on his disagreement with LSA over trade policy and the position of Canada; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd]; Sir John Le Rougetel [British High Commissioner in South Africa] (2); Basil Liddell Hart on LSA's memoirs and Don Pablo Azcarate y Florez; Flora Lion on painting LSA; Tom Longstaff; 1st Lord Lyle of Westbourne; Oliver Lyttelton [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Chandos] on subjects including LSA's views on self-government for West African countries, particularly the Gold Coast [later Ghana] and Nigeria (5); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] (2); Barbara McCorquodale [Barbara Cartland]; Sir Dougal Malcolm; [Alfred] Ernest Marples, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government; Vincent Massey [Governor-General of Canada] (2); Patrick Mayhew (2); 2nd Lord Mersey [earlier Charles Bigham]; Sir Eugen Millington-Drake (2); Violet, Lady Milner (5); 1st Lord Milverton [earlier Arthur Richards], thanking LSA for chairing the United Central African Association during his absence; Dermot Morrah, [Editor] of the Round Table; [Thomas] Malcolm Muggeridge, Chairman of the Anglo-Polish Society; Sir [Richard] Gordon Munro, High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] in Britain, regretting that he could not continue in his post because of ill health; 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey Fitz-Clarence]; Bernard Myers. Also includes: index to all 1953 correspondents; print of a tribute to William Ker by Sir Ernest Barker; colour transparencies of LSA; notes by LSA commenting on a draft speech by the Queen Mother on Cecil Rhodes and Central Africa; text of a broadcast by David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, on the growing violence on the Israeli-Jordanian border; notes by Don Pablo Azcarate y Florez, former Principal Secretary of the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission, on recent developments in Palestine.
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Jan 1953-Dec 1953

Correspondence N - Z. Correspondents include: Sir Harold Nicolson on LSA's book "Thoughts on the Constitution" (2); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (4); Caroline, Lady Oppenheimer; Lord Eustace Percy; Charles Ponsonby, thanking LSA for his speech to the Royal African Society; Sir Charles Rey on the recent South African elections and the success of the Nationalists; Paul Reynaud on dissolutions of Parliament (3); Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams; Sir [Thomas] Ellis Robins (2); Sir James Ross, First Division Pensioners' Group (9); 1st Lord Vansittart on Civil Service pensions (2); 1st Lord Rotherwick [earlier Herbert Cayzer]; Sir Douglas Savory; Sir George Schuster on Central African Federation, particularly relating to Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] and Nyasaland [later Malawi]; Nita Selby-Lowndes (3); Lady Katharine Seymour [lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother] on subjects including the Queen's request for a copy of LSA's tribute to Cecil Rhodes (3); Cecil Sibbett; 1st Lord Simon on his Romanes Lecture and his concerns about the Suez Canal [Egypt] (3); Field Marshal Sir William Slim [Governor-General of Australia] on subjects including Egypt (2); Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith on the lack of leadership for an active Commonwealth partnership; Sir Waldron Smithers; Sir Donald Somervell (2); Sir Herbert Stanley; J O Steed (3); Leonard Stein on the Balfour Declaration and 1st Lord Milner (2); Walter Stirling; Sir Ronald Storrs (2); 1st Lord Swinton [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, then Philip Cunliffe-Lister] on subjects including articles by [?] Oswald Pirow advocating apartheid across Africa and a pooling of South African and British protectorates (2); Sir [Thomas] Shenton Thomas; George Scott, Deputy Editor of Truth; 2nd Lord Wavell; Sir Robert Webber; Karl Weber (3); 11th Lord Scarbrough, Lord Chamberlain [earlier Sir (Lawrence) Roger Lumley] (2); [?] Anne, Duchess of Westminster; Sir Thomas White, High Commissioner for Australia, in London (2); 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour] on LSA's memoirs, particularly Winston Churchill's lack of an Imperialist outlook (2); Percival Witherby (7); Sir [John] Evelyn Wrench [Chairman of the Spectator] (2); Geoffrey Winthrop Young. Also includes: notes by LSA on future warfare, commenting on [John] Enoch Powell's "War in Three Dimensions"; notes by LSA on the constitution, relating to the dissolution of Parliament. Please note that there is an index to all 1953 correspondents at AMEL 2/1/48.
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Jan 1953-Dec 1953

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Cyril Alington (2); Sir Carleton Allen, congratulating LSA on a tribute to 1st Lord Milner; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; Sir Claude Auchinleck; Frank Aydelotte [former American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees] (2); 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Empire Industries Association (2); Jacques Bardoux; Sir Ernest Barker (2); 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier (Francis) Vernon Willey]; Sir Harry Batterbee on the situation in New Zealand; Sir Alfred Beit; Princess Marthe Bibesco (6); John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Research Department, suggesting the publication of an address by LSA to the Empire teachers; Sir Alfred Bossom; Sir [Harold] Leslie Boyce; William Brittain [Chairman], Brittain Publishing Group; Manlio Brosio on his departure [as Italian Ambassador to Britain]; Lennox Broster on the Rhodes Scholar scheme; Ashley Brown on support for the IRA; Sir Arthur Bryant; [Leonard] David Gammans [Assistant Postmaster-General] on safeguarding the character of programmes broadcast by the Independent Television Authority; David Butler on "The New Macchiavelli" (2); Sir Nevile Butler on the Institut International des Civilisations Differentes (2); Dorothea, Lady Butterworth; Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain] (2); Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham] on writing about 1st Lord Milner (2); Alfred Chotzner; Colin Coote [Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post] on LSA's memoirs; Owen Croft; Janet Ashbee on Elsa de Szasz (4); Ethel, Lady Dilke; Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith; Canon John Douglas; Lief Egeland on subjects including the death of 1st Lord Simon, the Rhodes Trust and the situation in South Africa (2); John Ehrman on his Official Military Histories of the Second World War, particularly the appointment of 1st Lord Mountbatten as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia and India's contribution to the war effort (2); Eliahu Elath [Israeli Ambassador to Britain]; Zehava Elath on sculpting LSA's head (2); Walter Elliot; Simon Elwes on painting LSA's portrait; [Eric] Gordon England on his ecological research foundation; Sir Geoffrey Faber on subjects including his impressions of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] (2); Hope Ffennell; Lettice Fisher; Hugh Fraser; Charles Fry (5); Muriel Gamage; Albertus Geyer [South African High Commissioner in London] (2); Lord Dudley Gordon [later 3rd Lord Aberdeen and Temair]; Sir Lancelot Graham, Chairman of the Royal Empire Society; 1st Lord Hailey; [Andrew] Hamilton Gault; Sir Patrick Hannon; Vincent Harlow on subjects including finding a compromise to the dispute over the government of Cyprus (2); Stuart Helps, Chairman of the British South African League (5); Kathleen Hicks (3); Sir Alexander Grantham, Governor of Hong Kong; Eleanor Holland-Martin; Campbell Hone on LSA's tribute to 1st Lord Simon; 1st Lord Horder; Leslie Hore-Belisha on LSA's self-sacrifice; Sir Robert Ho Tung; Sir Godfrey Huggins [later 1st Lord Malvern], Prime Minister, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland [later Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi] commenting on setting up the Federal Parliament; Sir Archibald Hurd; John Ivimey; Sir Roderick Jones; Sir David Keir on his impressions of Malaya [later Malaysia]; Eric Kennington (2); 1st Lord Kilmuir [earlier David Maxwell Fyfe]; Meriel Knowling (4); Eileen Price-Davies; Alan Lennox-Boyd [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton] (2); Sir John Le Rougetel [British Commissioner in South Africa] on subjects including electing a new leader for the Nationalist Party; Basil Liddell Hart on the claim by T E Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia] that he had been invited to become High Commissioner for Egypt (7); Winston Churchill (writing to Liddell Hart) on Lawrence; 2nd Lord Lloyd on becoming [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Oliver Lyttelton [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Chandos] on LSA's proposals for Cyprus, the Potomac Charter and the future of Togoland [later Togo] (3); Maurice Macmillan, Macmillan and Company Limited; Niall Macpherson [later 1st Lord Drumalbyn] on the Australian Dried Fruits Board (2); Raja Sir Maharaj Singh (2); Sir Dougal Malcolm (2); Mar Shimun; Sir Ivor Maxse; Patrick Mayhew; Arthur Meighen; Sir Eugen Millington-Drake; Mary, Lady Mills on the death of Sir Frederick Mills (2); Violet, Lady Milner; Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg; Edmund Morris Miller; 5th Lord Munster [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence]; Bernard Myers; Sir Harold Nicolson; Frederick Northedge, Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (2); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (3); Edgar Williams, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford; Sir Arthur Page (2); Sir [Arthur] Cosmo Parkinson; Sir Geoffrey Peto; Paul Reynaud; Sir Bruce Richmond; [Ada] Edwina, 3rd Countess Roberts [earlier Lady Edwina Lewin]; Sir [Thomas] Ellis Robins; Alfred Ryan [Assistant Editor and Literary Editor of the Times] on the history of the Curragh Incident [over the imposition of Home Rule in Ireland, March 1914] (3); 1st Lord Samuel; Sir Douglas Savory; Sir Walford Selby; 2nd Lord Simon on LSA's defence of his father (2); [Arthur] Lionel Smith; Sir Waldron Smithers (2); Sir Ronald Storrs; 1st Lord Swinton [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, then Philip Cunliffe-Lister]; Jane, Lady Turner; Angela Thirkell; Marshal of the RAF 1st Lord Trenchard on LSA's view that during the war the RAF should have surrendered some of its bombers for airborne divisions instead; [William] Brian Tunstall, contributor to Cambridge History of the British Empire; Francis Turnbull; W H Turner (4); Georges Vanier; 1st Lord Vansittart on LSA's defence of 1st Lord Simon; [Hilda] Francesca Vellacott; Paul Vellacott, Master of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (2); Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe; Sir Hereward Wake, asking LSA to defend the reputation of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson from attacks in the memoirs of General Sir Hubert Gough; Henry Walston; Sir Thomas White [High Commissioner for Australia, in London]; Sir Philip Wilbraham; Percival Witherby (8). Also includes: index to all 1954 correspondents.
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Dec 1953-Jan 1955

Correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: 9th Lord Albemarle [earlier Lord Bury]; John Allen; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Katharine, Duchess of Atholl; Clement Attlee, recalling the fall of the Chamberlain Government and the draft letter by himself, LSA and others asking Winston Churchill to remove [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax from his new Cabinet; Archduke Robert of Austria; Frank Aydelotte; Cyril Bailey; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye; Thomas Balogh, with a memorandum on the problem of the constitution of Malta; Carlyon Bellairs; Princess Marthe Bibesco; John Biggs-Davison on articles and asking LSA to speak in his constituency (5); Edith, Lady Bird; Robert Blake on quoting from LSA in his biography of Andrew Bonar Law; Maybery, Lady Boyce; 1st Lord Bracken; Bernard Braine; 1st Lord Brand on subjects including the death of Sir Dougal Malcolm and the choice of Sir [John] Evelyn Wrench as the official biographer of 1st Lord Milner (3); Leonard Brockington (2); Alice, Lady Butler, on the death of Sir Richard Butler; Sir Nevile Butler, asking LSA to address the Institut International des Civilisations Differentes; Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain] (2); Richard Casey; Joseph Coudurier de Chassaigne [George Saint-Clair]; Sir [Peter] Alexander Clutterbuck, British High Commissioner in India, on the death of Sir Girja Bajpai [Governor of Bombay] (2); Maurice Collis on his biography of Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith (3); Vera, Lady Cranworth on a Victoria League meeting (5); Clement Davies, recalling a meeting on asking Winston Churchill to remove Chamberlain and Halifax from his new Cabinet (2); Sir Howard d'Egville; Henry Drummond-Wolff; Muriel Gamage; Edgar Williams, Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (writing to Leslie Gamage); Norman Gibbs; 3rd Lord Gorell [earlier Ronald Gorell Barnes]; John Grigg; 1st Lord Hailey [Chairman of the Indian Civil Service (Retired) Association]; Louisa Haldane; Marjorie Eyre, Secretary to Sir [William] Keith Hancock [Professor of British Commonwealth Affairs in the University of London] on Jan Smuts's papers (3); Sir Alfred Hennessy; [Ethel] Kathleen Hicks on whether a new history of the Church would include her late husband, [Frederick] Nugent Hicks, former Bishop of Lincoln (3); Alwyn Williams, Bishop of Winchester [mistakenly called Bishop of Durham]; 14th Lord Home [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, earlier Alexander Douglas-Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; Dame Mary Hughes; Sir Roderick Jones; Sir David Keir, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford; Sir Cecil Kisch; Alan Lennox-Boyd [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton] on LSA's views about the Maltese constitution and Cyprus (4); 1st Lord Llewellin [Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, later Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi] on the need for financial development and a visit by Julian Amery; Gwilym Lloyd-George [later 1st Lord Tenby]; Sir Charles Lloyd Jones; Sir John Le Rougetel on subjects including Canada's position between the Commonwealth and the United States; Sir Arnold Lunn; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Stockton] on Cyprus and the exile of Archduke Robert of Austria (3); Sir Dougal Malcolm (2); Sir John Marriott; Vincent Massey; 1st Lord McGowan; [Daniel] Roland Michener on LSA's views about the Commonwealth and possible alternatives to GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] for Canada; Jean Monnet, President of the European Coal and Steel Community on LSA's views on the Commonwealth and the need for Western European countries to integrate to avoid a collapse; Sir Mehmed Munir Bey; 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence] on the need for the Royal Navy to have an ice-breaker for operations in the Antarctic or Arctic; Sir Otto Niemeyer; Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (2); Harry Oppenheimer; Major-General Llewelyn Price-Davies on defending the memory of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Wilson from the account in General Sir Hubert Gough's memoirs of the Curragh incident following the imposition of Home Rule in Ireland, March 1914; Eileen Price-Davies (2); Sir [William] Keith Hancock; 1st Lord Reith, Chairman of the Colonial Development Corporation; Alfred Ryan; Sir Donald Simson; Sir William Slim [Governor-General of Australia]; John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, University of Oxford; Henry Hopkinson [Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, later 1st Lord Colyton]; H B Spiller (6); 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, then Philip Cunliffe-Lister]; 1st Lord Templewood [earlier Samuel Hoare]; John Townley [President of Preston Conservative Association] on Julian Amery's success in increasing his majority at Preston [Lancashire]; Alfred Wadsworth, [Editor] of the Manchester Guardian; Sir Hereward Wake on LSA's portrait by Simon Elwes and Sir Hubert Gough's memoirs; Sir Thomas White, High Commissioner for Australia, in London; H Wickcliffe Rose, President of the American Tariff League Incorporated, on their opposition to GATT (3); Percival Witherby (4). Also includes: index to all 1955 correspondents; set of articles by E L R Williamson, "Surplus Men, Surplus Wheat" on the Canadian economic situation.
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Jan 1955-Sep 1955