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Papers recording his service with Field Marshals Sir John Dill and Sir Henry Maitland Wilson (later Lord Wilson of Libya), Heads of the British Joint Staff Mission, Washington, December 1942 - ?February 1945, including: pamphlets and 15 correspondence files, May 1942 - February 1945, relating to Dill's visits and speeches to various American organisations, the Kermit Roosevelt Fund, and Dill's Colonelcy of the Parachute Regiment, including operations in Sicily and Italy, 1943; a notebook with his ms diary (32pp), 15 November - 12 December 1943, of Dill's attendance at the First and Second Cairo Conferences, 15 November and 12 December 1943, and a ms copy of Dill's (?) diary (6pp) of the Teheran Conference, 27 November - 2 December 1943; his ms notes, c 1960, on his service in America (17pp, transcript 13pp), December 1942 - 1950, mentioning Admirals Ernest King, Sir Percy Noble and Sir James Somerville; Generals G C Marshall, H H Arnold and W Bedell Smith; James Forrestal, Robert A Lovett, and Harry S Truman; photographs; and many paper cuttings. Also included is his ms diary (63pp), 31 December 1935 - ?February 1936, of his trip to India and the North West Frontier, mentioning Brigadier (later Field Marshal Earl) Alexander.
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Papers recording the service of Major the Honourable Reginald Winn, ADC to Field Marshal Sir John Dill and Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson (later Lord Wilson of Libya), Heads of the British Joint Staff Mission, Washington, December 1942 - ?February 1945, including 15 correspondence files, May 1942 - February 1945, with original incoming letters and carbon copy out letters, relating to: Dill's Colonelcy of the Parachute Regiment, including operations in Sicily and Italy in 1943 and Normandy and Arnhem in 1944; correspondence arranging Dill's visits to various American and Canadian organisations, with copies and drafts of speeches he gave and programmes and pamphlets from the visits, including visits to Toronto and Dill receiving an honorary degree from The University of Toronto; to Richmond, Virginia (June 1943); to the West Coast [California and Texas] and including a transcript of a telephone conversation between Dill and US General George Marshall (July 1943); a visit to Seattle and Canada (October- November 1943); a visit to Saint Andrew Society, Chicago that had to be called off (October-November 1943); visits to Detroit to talk at the Economic Club and Chrysler Tank Arsenal (January 1944), Toronto to talk at the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society (January 1944), Kingston, Ontario, to visit the Royal Military College of Canada (January 1944), and a visit to Ottawa to stay with Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Govern General of Canada (January 1944); a visit to Yale University for Dill to accept the Henry E Howland Memorial Prize and give a speech (February 1944); a visit to Philadelphia to address the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society (March 1944); a visit to Williamsburg to address the College of William and Mary and for Dill to accept an honorary doctorate (April 1944); a visit to the Academy of Political Science to give a speech on The Psychological Approach to the Transition from War to Peace (April 19440: visits to various US Army Camps, including II Army Corps, Jacksonville, and Fort Blanding, Florida, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, US Military Academy, West Point, and others (mostly 1942); ANFA Conference, tours of Africa, India and China (1943); correspondence to and from Lady Nancy Dill; correspondence relating to the Mrs Kermit Roosevelt Fund.
Together with: Letters written to Winn on the death of FM Dill (November 1944); many press cuttings relating to Dill, conferences, etc.; Leaflets and pamphlets of places Winn and Dill had visited, and programmes of events attended;
a notebook with Winn's ms diary (32pp), 15 November - 12 December 1943, of Dill's attendance at the First and Second Cairo Conferences, 15 November and 12 December 1943, and a ms copy of Dill's (?) diary (6pp) of the Teheran Conference, 27 November - 2 December 1943; Notebook containing brief ms journal of the ‘Quebec Conference No. 2’ (OCTAGON) covering 10-17 Sept 1944, together with ms transcripts of letters and messages sent and received by Dill – to Lt Gen Browning re 1st Airborne Division at Arnheim (30 September 1944), to Adm Sir Percy North (5 October 1944), from Mackenzie King (18 October 1944), to Adm Ernest J King C-in-C US Fleet (27 October 1944) (with note by Winn that this was the last official letter which FM Dill ever wrote), from Adm King (29 October 1944), and the message from the US Chief of Staff to the British Chiefs of Staff on the news of Dill’s death (5 November 1944), message from the British Prime Minister to US President (1 Jan 1945), and presentation of posthumous DSM to Lady Dill (5 Jan 1945); a ms personal letter written by General George C Marshall to FM Sir John Dill while Dill was in hospital (2pp, n.d. [November 1944]); Two original copies of 78th Congress 2nd Session, S.J.RES. 158, Joint Resolution recognizing the outstanding service rendered to the United Nations by Field Marshal Sir John Dill, 24 November 1944 (2pp), with a covering letter from the British Military Attaché saying that Lady Dill might like to have them (1p, 29 November 1944); Photocopies ts transcriptions of appreciations of Dill by Gen Sir Clement Armitage, Dorothy Thompson, Sir James Grigg (SoS for War), Seventy Eight Congress of the USA Joint Resolution recognizing the outstanding service rendered to the United Nations by Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Lewis Douglas, James Forrestal (US Sec of the Navy)), Editorial from the Baltimore Sun 11/11/1944 re his burial at Arlington; a memo (1p, ts, 18 February 1946) to Winn regarding Winston Churchill’s visit to Washington DC, and Major Winn acting as his ADC for the period of his visit; ‘Mr Churchill’s Programme’, (2pp, ts, 26 February 1946) giving an itinerary for Churchill 26 Feb – 21 Mar 1946, with ms note by Philip Trood[?];
‘Duties of Individual Members of His Majesty’s Embassy for the United Kingdom at Washington, 30th November 1945’ (20pp, ts, November 1945), listing all Special Advisers, Service Attachés, Chancery, Reports Division, Commercial Department, General Department, and Information Office staff, with an alphabetical index of subjects and to whom questions regarding these should be referred, with ts coversheet relating to Churchill’s arrival in Washington (2 March 1946); a ts account (23pp) by Winn of Field Marshal Dill and his party attending the Cairo Conference, leaving Washington 15 November 1943, the journey via Puerto Rico, British Guiana, Brazil, Ascension Island, Khartoum, with details of sight-seeing and meetings with local governors and dignitaries, flying to Cairo, housed at Mina House, meeting the American Chiefs of Staff, the arrival of General and Mrs Chiang Kai-Shek two days early throwing the agenda off, being left behind when FM Dill and the Combined Chiefs flew to Teheran (27 Nov – 2 Dec), FM Dill turning down the chance to go to the Pacific Theatre with General Marshall, returning to Washington DC; several folders of memoirs relating to Winn's service with Dill, potentially intended for publication; Also included is Winn's ms diary (63pp), 31 December 1935 - ?February 1936, of his trip to India and the North West Frontier, mentioning Brigadier (later Field Marshal Earl) Alexander; Winn's ms notes, c 1960, on his service in America (17pp, transcript 13pp), December 1942 - 1950, mentioning Admirals Ernest King, Sir Percy Noble and Sir James Somerville; Generals G C Marshall, H H Arnold and W Bedell Smith; James Forrestal, Robert A Lovett, and Harry S Truman; c.40 photographs, by US Signal Corps of the Cairo Conference (Nov 1943), Tehran Conference (Nov-Dec 1943), and Second Quebec Conference (September 1944), including some Air Ministry photos of the Tehran Conference; 13 photos of Anthony Eden and FM Dill visiting Fort Bragg, North Carolina (March 1943); multiple copies of portrait photographs of Dill; and various other official British, Canadian, and American photographs of Dill and others, including four images of the funeral of FM Dill at Arlington Cemetery, and the unveiling of the statue to him.
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Catalogue date 1990-11-26