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	Special correspondence
Reference	AMEL 2/2
Covering Dates	1903–1955
Extent and Medium	7.5 archive boxes

Content and context

Correspondence with specific individuals.

Letters drawn out (or in some cases copied) by LSA from the main correspondence series, AMEL 2/1. In virtually all cases, more letters from these individuals still remain in the main series, but LSA seems to have singled these files out as being of particular importance.

Churchill/AMEL 2/2 contains:

Special correspondence: Auchinleck. Correspondence with Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck on subjects including: what Auchinleck could do following retirement; the end of his time as Commander-in-Chief, India; the press campaign alleging discord between himself and Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten [Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia] and its adverse effect on Auchinleck's organisation (1944); his hope of returning to active military command and suggestion that he might take on a civil position in the meantime (1943); Indian divisions serving in Italy with the Eighth Army; the extension of the tenure of 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] as Viceroy of India; Auchinleck's feelings at being replaced as Commander-in-Chief Middle East, his decision to refuse the new Persia-Iraq Command and the difficulties of combining it with the India Command; LSA's support for Auchinleck (1942); producing officers for the Indian Army, sending help to Burma [later Myanmar] and Malaya [later Malaysia] and the situation between the Allied forces and those of General Erwin Rommel [Commander, Afrika Corps] (March 1942); reorganisation of the Middle Eastern Command; Auchinleck's success as Commander-in-Chief, India (1941); support from Oliver Lyttelton [Minister of State, Middle East, later 1st Lord Chandos]. Other correspondents include: G M Trevelyan on the possibility of Auchinleck becoming Master of one of the Cambridge colleges following his retirement from active service.
1 file.

Jun 1941-Jan 1949

Special correspondence: Lord Beaverbrook. Correspondence with 1st Lord Beaverbrook [owner of the Daily Express, earlier Max Aitken] on subjects including: Beaverbrook's lack of faith in the Conservative Government, particularly [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Avon]; the importance of keeping a base in the Suez Canal Zone [Egypt]; the lack of a Conservative policy on the Empire; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] and Empire trade; emigration; LSA's views on the Western Union; speeches and articles by LSA; an attempt by Canada to break up the sterling area; air territory (cabotage) within the Empire.
1 file.

Apr 1939-Dec 1954

Special correspondence: John Buchan. Correspondence with John Buchan [1st Lord Tweedsmuir] on subjects including: LSA's defeat when standing as Parliamentary candidate for Wolverhampton East [Staffordshire], 1910; the chances of Buchan being adopted as candidate for Oxford University (1914); the quality of Buchan's intelligence reports (1917); Canadian constitutional reform (1937); the prospects for the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII] following his abdication; Buchan's official visit to the United States as Governor-General of Canada and the closeness between Britain and the United States (1937); concerns about the health of [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] and Buchan's wish to see Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin] succeed Chamberlain; Canadian war preparations; Buchan's decision to step down as Governor-General. Other correspondents include: Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir, thanking LSA for his sympathy on her husband's death; Sir Dougal Malcolm on an inscription for Buchan's grave (3); Sir Edward Marsh on the inscription; Francis Pember on the inscription (2).
1 file.

Jan 1910-Jan 1941

Special correspondence: Sir Winston Churchill. Correspondence with Sir Winston Churchill on subjects including: organisation of the War Cabinet; the value of air transport, and LSA's view that the Air Ministry did not give it enough importance; averting famine in India; monetary and commercial policy and the possibility of this causing a split in the Conservative Party; the lifelong friendship between Churchill and LSA; honours for LSA; policy on European Union and India after the war; Army reform; Palestine; the possibility of India separating from the Commonwealth; the state of the economy (1947); the 1950 General Election campaign; Israel's attitude to Britain; the United Europe movement; LSA's memoirs; policy on the Suez Canal [Egypt]. Other correspondents include: 1st Lord Greenwood on an article by LSA on Churchill for the Daily Mail; [Thomas] Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to Churchill] on Churchill's resignation as Prime Minister.
4 files.

May 1940-Jul 1955

Special correspondence: Coudenhove-Kalergi. Correspondence with Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, President of the Paneuropean Union, on subjects including: Paneuropean Congresses; European federation; relations between Europe and the Commonwealth; Coudenhove's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize; Coudenhove's book "Crusade for Pan-Europe"; American misunderstanding of the situation between Britain and India; Coudenhove's books "The Road to Peace" and "Europe Must Unite"; the Munich Crisis and the threat to Europe from Nazi Germany. Other correspondents include: Hamish Hamilton, Managing Director of Hamish Hamilton Limited, Publishers, on Coudenhove's autobiography; B Horovitz, Managing Director of Phaidon Press Limited, on the autobiography (3); Sir Andrew McFadyean on Coudenhove's books (8); [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on the planned Pan-European conference in New York, 1943; Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin]; R A Butler [Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on Coudenhove being refused entry to Britain on security grounds (2); [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Minister of Information, later 1st Lord Norwich]. Also includes memoranda by Coudenhove on the future of civilization, the European question and the United States and recognition of Austria's independence from Germany.
2 files.

Mar 1931-Aug 1955

Special correspondence: Professor Sir Reginald Coupland and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer. Correspondence with Sir Reginald Coupland [Beit Professor of History of the British Empire at Oxford University] and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer on subjects including: Coupland's books "The Indian Problem", "Indian Politics" and "India, A Re-statement"; regional government for India; India's future position in the world; the Indian constitution; Mohandas Gandhi's protest policy; the Congress Party's hostility to political minorities; Coupland's part in Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to India; Oppenheimer's funding for Coupland's work on the constitution. Other correspondents include: W A Chapple, Oppenheimer's representative in London (7). Also includes: notes by LSA on Coupland's books.
1 file.

Sep 1940-Oct 1945

Letters to Alfred Deakin. Copies of LSA's letters to Alfred Deakin [Prime Minister of Australia] on subjects including: the Imperial Conference of 1907, particularly on Imperial Preference, opposition to Deakin's position from Sir Wilfrid Laurier [Prime Minister of Canada] and unity within the Empire; establishing military colleges in each part of the Empire; articles by LSA on the Conference; the political position in South Africa, particularly relating to Sir Leander Jameson [Premier, Cape Colony], the state of feeling among the Boers, the federation question and growing economic prosperity, especially in Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; a secretariat for colonial affairs; LSA's impressions of British East Africa [later Kenya] and the possibility of a white self-governing colony there.
1 file.

May 1907-Jan 1908

Letters to Alfred Deakin. Copies of LSA's letters to Alfred Deakin [Prime Minister of Australia] on subjects including: the new organization of the Times; the visit of the American fleet to Australia and LSA's concern that Australia might look to the United States for defence in the Pacific; the state of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]'s Liberal Government; a secretariat for colonial affairs; the health of Joseph Chamberlain; pension reform; constitutional changes for the Empire, making self-governing members equal; the political effect of David Lloyd George's domestic affairs, the Asquiths' living arrangements with the dancer Maud Allan and the engagement of Winston Churchill [to Clementine Hozier]; the economic situation in Britain; the volatile state of the Balkans and aggressive German foreign policy; Imperial Preference and the attitudes of Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer], Churchill [President of the Board of Trade] and Arthur Balfour; Churchill's change of heart about supporting an early General Election; the 1910 General Election and LSA's defeat when standing as Parliamentary candidate for Bow and Bromley [London]; LSA's wedding to Florence Greenwood; the Parliament Bill; the Imperial Conference of 1911; the Home Rule Bill; the good effect of the visit from Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] in convincing the Government of the need for proper partnership within the Empire. Also includes: letter from LSA to Pattie Deakin following Alfred Deakin's death.
1 file.

Feb 1908-Oct 1919

Special correspondence: Drummond-Wolff. Correspondence with Henry Drummond-Wolff [Empire Economic Union] on subjects including: a paper by LSA for the European League of Economic Co-operation; tariffs, trade agreements and Imperial Preference; the civil aviation policy of the United States. Other correspondents include: Ronald Russell [Research Secretary of the Empire Economic Union]; Sir Herbert Williams [Honorary Secretary of the Empire Economic Union] (4); 1st Lord Woolton [Chairman of the Conservative Party, earlier Frederick Marquis]; T E Utley [Peter Utley] (2). Also includes memoranda by Drummond-Wolff on: the economic warfare between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the arbitrary withholding of Most Favoured Nation status from individual countries; protective and preferential tariffs; a conditional Most Favoured Nation clause; non-discrimination, customs union and preference; the organic reconstruction of international currency stabilization after the war.
1 file.

Nov 1940-Feb 1955

Special correspondence: [Robert] Anthony Eden. Correspondence with Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including: a pension paid to the Turkish Imperial Family; French attempts to bring about a Four-Power meeting on the future of Germany; developing Empire trade and the influence of GATT [general agreement on tariffs and trade]; LSA's views on the situation in Palestine; National Service; defence of the Suez Canal [Egypt] and the Sudan problem; keeping out of internal Yugoslav politics; LSA's plan for a nucleus of skiing and mountaineer troops; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain's failure to rally the nation and to persuade Germany that Britain was in earnest about war; the Munich Pact; Japan's drive into China following the Munich Pact; a proposed visit to Britain by Kurt von Schuschnigg [Chancellor of Austria]; the difficulties of Eden meeting Chaim Weizmann [President of the World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine]. Other correspondents include: Sir Paul Dukes; Myron Taylor. Also includes: rough notes by LSA and a supplement from the bi-monthly survey of Commonwealth and colonial affairs, on the Conservative contribution to the Commonwealth in Asia, including LSA's role in India.
1 file.

Feb 1937-Apr 1955

Special correspondence: Professor H Duncan Hall. Correspondence with Duncan Hall [British Embassy, United States] on the Commonwealth and Duncan Hall's textbook on the Commonwealth and Empire. Also includes: address by Duncan Hall on the Commonwealth, his review of LSA's "Thoughts on the Constitution" and his memorandum on American post-war policy towards the Commonwealth; notes on the Empire Parliamentary Conference at Ottawa [Canada], 1943.
1 file.

May 1943-Mar 1955

Special correspondence: Grant Hayward. Correspondence with Julian Grant Hayward on subjects including support for the Empire and Anglo-French relations. Other correspondents include: Edward Spears [Chairman of the Anglo-French Parliamentary Committee].
1 file.

Nov 1939-Feb 1951

Special correspondence: Hicks. Correspondence with Kathleen Hicks, widow of [Frederick] Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln, on subjects including memorials to Hicks at Harrow School, Lincoln and Gibraltar and Kathleen Hicks's biography of her husband. Other correspondents include: Ralph Moore, Head Master of Harrow School (2); Harry Pirie-Gordon, Harrow Heraldry Committee (3); Paul Sandlands (2); "Jacker", Sir [Francis] Stanley Jackson; Sir Maurice Headlam (2); Sir John Murray, senior director of John Murray, publishers (4); William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury; Sir Walter Moberly, Chairman of the University Grants Committee; [Edward] Hugh Dalton, President of the Board of Trade; Lindsay Dewar; James Tomlin (2); [Clarence] Henry Marten; Raymond Savage; Alan Don; Sir Ulick Alexander [Keeper of the Privy Purse]. Also includes: extracts from letters in tribute to Hicks.
1 file.

Mar 1942-Jan 1954

Special correspondence: Hore-Belisha. Correspondence with Leslie Hore-Belisha on subjects including: Hore-Belisha's failure to win a Parliamentary seat in the 1950 General Election and his regret that LSA was no longer in Government; the importance of a united Europe; LSA's fears that Winston Churchill would not know when to resign; Britain's place in Europe, particularly relations with France; balancing the power of the Soviet Union with a United States of Europe; LSA's achievements in India; Hore-Belisha being pushed out as Secretary of State for War.
1 file.

Jan 1939-Feb 1950

Special correspondence: Ionides. Correspondence with members of the Ionides family, including Michael Ionides, Cyril Ionides, Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Ionides and Alexander Ionides on subjects including: Michael Ionides joining the Iraq Development Board; implications of the treaty establishing a European Defence Community; irrigating the Jordan Valley; Philip Ionides's patent claim for his invention for rapid airfield construction, 1940. Other correspondents include: Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso]; E Harberd, Ministry of Supply Patents department (3); John Gandee [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India]. Also includes: documents relating to Philip Ionides's patent claim.
1 file.

May 1940-Apr 1955

Special correspondence: Jabotinsky. Correspondence on and with the Jabotinsky family, particularly on the deportation of Eri Jabotinsky from Turkey, allegations that he had been involved in the assassination of 1st Lord Moyne [Deputy Minister of State, Egypt, earlier Walter Guinness] and attempts to get him a British visa. Correspondents include: Colin Thornley [Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for the Colonies] (2); Jeanne Jabotinsky (7); Josiah Wedgwood; 1st Lord Lloyd [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (2); Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (2); Vladimir Jabotinsky [Zeev Jabotinsky] on Eri Jabotinsky's arrest as a prisoner of war in Palestine and his own concerns about anti-Jewish feeling in Palestine (5).
1 file.

Apr 1936-Aug 1945

Special correspondence: Prince Hamid Kadjar and Prince Hossein Kadjar of Persia [Iran]. Correspondence with the princes and their father, Prince Hassan, former Crown Prince, on subjects including: the stoppage of their allowance from the Nizam of Hyderabad; Hossein's joining the Royal Navy and the possibility of working for the Ministry of Agriculture and finding work in Canada; Hamid's joining the Navy; Hassan's intention to visit Canada. Other correspondents include: Sir Chintaman Deshmukh, Minister of Finance, Government of India; 5th Lord Salisbury [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1952, earlier Lord Cranborne]; Desmond Crawley, Principal Private Secretary to Salisbury; Sir Paul Patrick [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, India Office]; Charles Herbert, Indian Political Department; Kenneth East, Private Secretary, India Office (2); Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on the difficulty of receiving the princes at the Foreign Office; Arthur Thesiger (2); Sir Reader Bullard [British Ambassador to Iran] on the Iranian Government's attitude to the princes and the unlikely chance of their succeeding to the throne; A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] (6); Robert Hudson [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries]; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including advising against Sir Reader Bullard seeing Prince Hassan and the proposed allowance for the princes from the Nizam of Hyderabad (3); Belle Rennie on helping the princes (16); 2nd Lord Cromer [Lord Chamberlain, earlier Lord Errington] on the Foreign Office's advice that the princes should not be invited to Court functions; 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Henry Mond], Imperial Chemical Industries Limited [ICI]; Sir Reginald Glancy [Adviser to Secretary of State for India] on asking Sir Akbar Hydari [President, Hyderabad State Executive Council] to help the princes (7); Richard Crofton [Director-General of Revenue, Hyderabad] (2); Robert Boutflour, Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester [Gloucestershire], on Hossein's training (3); Sir Akbar Hydari (2).
1 file.

May 1936-Jul 1953

Special correspondence: Robert Menzies. Correspondence with Menzies [Prime Minister of Australia, 1939-1941 and 1949-1966] on subjects including: GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; the Suez Canal [Egypt]; the Commonwealth Conference, 1952; the European League for Economic Co-operation; strengthening the Sterling Area; devaluation of the pound; the result of the 1945 General Election. Other correspondents include: Ronald Russell, suggesting that Menzies might oppose further concessions on Imperial Preference. Also includes: text of a broadcast by Menzies on Australia's support for Britain and hopes for a future world sovereignty, 1948; tribute by Menzies to 1st Lord Baldwin.
1 file.

Jun 1941-Jun 1955

Special correspondence: Lord Moyne. Correspondence with 1st Lord Moyne [Deputy Minister of State, Egypt, earlier Walter Guinness] on subjects including: Moyne's future; the Arab States and Palestine; war damage to Moyne's house; the situation in Beirut [Lebanon]; the Balkan Affairs Committee; American claims in Saudi Arabia; Egyptian internal affairs; Palestine and Jewish immigration; resentment against French influence in the Middle East; partition proposals; the breakdown in law and order in Ethiopia. Other correspondents include: 2nd Lord Moyne [earlier Bryan Guinness], thanking LSA for his sympathy on the death of his father; Sir William Croft [Chief Civil Assistant to Minister of State, Egypt]; Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Sir [Percy] James Grigg [Secretary of State for War]; [Henry] Montague Bell (3); Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information]. Also includes: text of LSA's broadcast in tribute to Moyne; memorandum by Brigadier Stephen Longrigg, Chief Administrator of Eritrea, on the settlement of Jews in Eritrea; report by Sir Douglas Harris [Reconstruction Commissioner for Palestine] on the possibilities of settlement in the Negeb district of Palestine.
1 file.

Sep 1942-Nov 1944

Special correspondence: Salisbury. Correspondence with 5th Lord Salisbury [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 1940-42 and 1943-45, earlier Lord Cranborne] on subjects including: Salisbury's visit to Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] in 1949 and Rhodesian views on federation; Palestine; the Parliament Bill and reform of the House of Lords; European unity; the constitution of Newfoundland [Canada]; migration to Australia; representation of the Dominions in an Imperial War Cabinet.
1 file.

Jun 1941-Nov 1952

Special correspondence: Prince Samy. Correspondence with and on the Samy family, particularly on an official allowance made to them, and whether they had a legal claim against the Government relating to various properties formerly belonging to the Imperial Ottoman family in the Middle East. Correspondents include: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office] (2); Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice [Foreign Office Legal Adviser]; Sir William Goodenough; Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary] (3); Sir Wyndham Deedes (3); Sir Andrew Ryan (2); Sir Orme Sargent [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] (2); Hector McNeil [Minister of State, Foreign Office]; Philip Noel-Baker [Minister of State, Foreign Office]; Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; [Henry] Wickham Steed; 1st Lord Woolton [Minister of Food, earlier Frederick Marquis]; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] (5).
1 file.

Jul 1938-Jan 1955

Special correspondence: Schonegevel. Correspondence with Bernard Schonegevel on his lectures in the United States in support of the Empire and on his observations of war production in Canada. Other correspondents include: Gervas Huxley, Director of the Empire Division, Ministry of Information (2); [Alfred] Duff Cooper [Minister of Information, later 1st Lord Norwich]; Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information]; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] on Canadian gun manufacturing; Claude Pepper, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
1 file.

Mar 1941-Oct 1944

Special correspondence: Selborne. Correspondence with 3rd Lord Selborne [Minister of Economic Warfare, 1942-1945, earlier Lord Wolmer] on subjects including: Selborne's business interests; the biography of his father, 2nd Lord Selborne; LSA's concerns about trade policy and Imperial Preference; the situation in Albania, particularly relating to Abas Kupi (1944); finding active duties for Julian Amery in SOE [Special Operations Executive]; propaganda by the Yugoslav Partisans; the Munich Pact. Also includes: note on Julian Amery's impressions of Albania; telegram from Major-General William Stawell to Major-General Colin Gubbins on finding employment for Julian Amery.
1 file.

Nov 1939-Sep 1948

Special correspondence: Jan Smuts. Correspondence with Smuts on subjects including: accounts of military operations on the Tugela River [South Africa]; the Irish Convention (1917); the Palestine Campaign; the need for a separate Air Staff; costs of the separate war fronts; peace negotiations following the First World War; migration to South Africa; the Locarno Pact; the Imperial Conference (1926); LSA's Empire Tour; the proposal that Smuts should become High Commissioner of Palestine; the South African flag; the League of Nations and the former German colonies; the partition of Palestine; the South African Protectorates [Swaziland, Basutoland (later Lesotho) and Bechuanaland (later Botswana)]; Germany's Anschluss with Austria; Czechoslovakia and the Munich Pact; the coming of war; policy on India, particularly the appointment of an Indian High Commissioner to South Africa; the progress of the war in North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Eastern Front; relations with the United States; a biography of Smuts, "Grey Steel", by Harold Armstrong; the trial of John Amery; the Indian constitution; the recognition of Israel; General Elections (in Britain and South Africa). Other correspondents include: [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain on the future of the Empire Marketing Board; 1st Lord Sankey [Lord Chancellor] on the Privy Council's attempt to extend its authority in South Africa; Allen Lane, Director of Penguin Books Limited (3); Sir Reginald Coupland.
4 files.

Sep 1903-Oct 1950

Jan Smuts Memorial Fund. Correspondence and papers on the memorial fund, with correspondents including: John Rodgers [Secretary of the Smuts Memorial Committee] (13); Henry Willink, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (3); James Butler [Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge] (2); G M Trevelyan (4); Sir Geoffrey Heyworth (4); Sir Roderick Jones (3); Sir Lionel Whitby, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (4); 5th Lord Salisbury, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations [earlier Lord Cranborne] (4); Winston Churchill [Leader of the Opposition, then Prime Minister] (5); Clement Attlee [Prime Minister, then Leader of the Opposition] (6); 1st Lord Tedder; Vincent Massey; Sydney Roberts, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (3); 1st Lord Brand; Hugh Kindersley (2); 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary of the Rhodes Trust] (2); 4th Lord Harlech [earlier William Ormsby-Gore] (3); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (3); Nicolas de Wet; 1st Lord Athlone; 1st Lord Kemsley [earlier Sir James Berry]; 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry]; Alan Don, Dean of Westminster; James Gray, [Editor] of South Africa magazine (2). Also includes: texts in tribute to Smuts and for the Smuts Fund Presentation Book; reports and minutes of the Memorial Committee.
2 files.

Oct 1950-Aug 1955

Special correspondence: Spenser Pryse. Correspondence with Gerald Spencer Pryse on his scheme for a series of films showing the history of liberty in the Empire and the United States. Other correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Information, later 1st Lord Altrincham]; Frank Darvall [Deputy Director American Division, Ministry of Information].
1 file.

Sep 1939-Oct 1950

Special correspondence: Myron Taylor. Correspondence with Taylor on subjects including: Anglo-American economic relations, particularly Imperial Preference; the death of King George VI; British policy in the Middle East; the future of Korea; the chances of European union, particularly relating to the attitude of the Soviet Union; plans for an international organization for peace and security; LSA's views on the future of the Pacific. Other correspondents include: Dwight D Eisenhower, President of the United States and John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, thanking Taylor for sending them copies of LSA's "A Balanced Economy"; Basil Liddell Hart. Also includes: note on British rights in Sinai [Egypt]; note by LSA on the state of Europe in January 1940; note on German reconstruction (1945); notes on the situation in Italy (February 1945); press release on American relief for Italy; memorandum by Taylor on the post-war rehabilitation of Germany and permanent peace in Europe.
1 file.

Jul 1942-Feb 1955

Special correspondence: Chaim Weizmann and Vera Weizmann. Correspondence, mainly with and on Chaim Weizmann [President of the World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1921-1931 and 1935-1946 and President of Israel, 1949-52] on subjects including: LSA's part in the Balfour Declaration [on supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine]; sovereignty over Jerusalem; British policy on Israel, particularly the attitude of Winston Churchill; the partition of Palestine, particularly over the Negev area and the policy of the Foreign Office; Jewish support for the Allies during the war; treatment of Jewish immigrants to Palestine; limits to Jewish settlement of Palestine; the White Paper on Palestine (1930). Other correspondents include: Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies] advising LSA not to attend a session of the Zionist Federation annual conference, dedicated to Weizmann; [Edward] Hugh Dalton [President of the Board of Trade] on medical supplies for the population of India; Paul Goodman, asking LSA to contribute to a book in Weizmann's honour (3); Israel Sieff, Chairman of the British Committee for the Weizmann Memorial; Eliahu Elath [Minister of Israel]; Sir Wyndham Deedes. . Also includes: progress report on the Weizmann National Memorial (1954); report on the Weizmann Institute Foundation; summary of statement given by Weizmann before the United Nations special committee on Palestine (1947); papers by Weizmann on chemical industries based on sugar carbohydrates and fermentation; outline of plan by Harry Philby for a Jewish-Arab settlement.
2 files.

Oct 1930-Dec 1954

Special correspondence: Rhys Williams. Correspondence with Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams on subjects including: the death of Sir Rhys Rhys Williams; the revelation of the agreement between Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, over atomic power in 1943; her book ["Taxation and Incentive"]; the United Europe Movement; economic policy, particularly relating to trade; the Joint Council of Monetary and Economic Research; social reform. Other correspondents include: Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer [later 1st Lord Waverley] on Juliet Rhys Williams's income tax ideas. Also includes: text of article by Walter Lippman on politics and American foreign policy; tables illustrating Juliet Rhys Williams's ideas for income tax reform; pamphlets by Juliet Rhys Williams outlining a new social contract, as an alternative to the Beveridge Report, and on income tax reform.
1 file.

Sep 1942-Feb 1955

Special correspondence: Yehia Anglo-Egyptian Union. Correspondence with M Yehia on the Anglo-Egyptian Union, with other correspondents including: Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on Yehia; Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg] (2); Sir Thomas Moore.
1 file.

Apr 1939-Oct 1940