The Papers of Leopold Amery

Correspondents include: Andrew Acheson, Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Office; Professor James Butler [Chief Historian for the Official Military Histories of War]; Major-General Ian Playfair; John Ehrman [Historian, Cabinet Office]; 1st Lord Salter; Clement Attlee, recalling the decision to keep [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] out of the War Cabinet; Robert Boothby, recalling the rebellion against Chamberlain; General Sir Alan Brooke [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] writing in 1943 on the Iraq-Persia Command being downgraded and the importance of airborne forces both during and after the war; Graham Spry [former Personal Assistant to Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps and member of the Cripps Mission to India] on the mission.

Also includes: notes of a talk with 1st Lord Alanbrooke]; rough notes; press cuttings; issues of Hansard covering debates on India, 1941-42, with a letter from LSA to Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] on moderate Indian opinion and Dominion status; India Office statement on the Cripps Mission; copies of letters from LSA to Field Marshal Sir John Dill [Chief of Imperial General Staff] on his concerns about British policy towards Iraq in 1941, Yugoslav prisoners of war, control of the defence of Burma [later Myanmar] and airborne forces, with a letter from Dill on praise received by Indian troops; copies of letters and memoranda by LSA featured in the book's appendix on the case for airborne operations, war planning and a review of the Indian situation.