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Object description
Interesting ms and ts correspondence (40 letters, 56pp, and 1 telegram, 1p, June 1924 - December 1946), notably with Brendan Bracken (Viscount Bracken), the Duke of Buccleuch, R E Butler (Foreign Office), Sydney W Carroll (Allied Newspapers), Lord Hankey, Geoffrey Harrison (Foreign Office), Miss Christine Knowles (British Prisoners of War Funds), Sir Francis Lindsay, Violet Milner (Viscountess Milner), Henry Newnham, Sir Archibald Sinclair (Viscount Thurso), Sir Frederick Whyte MP, Rear Admiral Sir Murray Sueter, and Field Marshal Sir John Dill; and his ts memoranda, notes and reports (43pp), relating to his contacts with Japanese officials, notably Major General Tatsumi, the Japanese Military Attaché in London, as a result of his former service as Military Attaché with the British Embassy in Tokyo, Japan; the situation in the Far East; and Anglo-Japanese relations, especially the reasons for tensions, Japanese aggression, and Japan joining the Axis in 1940; and commenting on the Washington Conference and the difficulties of reconciling Japanese expansionism with the interests of the British Empire and the United States; attempts to improve relations with Japan and to form an understanding and a good working arrangement with the Japanese; the change in relations with Japan once the Japanese had openly joined the Axis Pact and the resulting reconsideration of where British interests lay; Japanese relations with China, Germany, the USA and the USSR; Britain's failure to maintain the Anglo-Japanese alliance and to counter-act German influence on Japanese "patriots"; the American War Memorial at Gibraltar; a proposed Japanese Naval Memorial at Malta; and the Blitz on London.
Content description
Interesting ms and ts correspondence (40 letters, 56pp, and 1 telegram, 1p, June 1924 - December 1946), notably with Brendan Bracken (Viscount Bracken), the Duke of Buccleuch, R E Butler (Foreign Office), Sydney W Carroll (Allied Newspapers), Lord Hankey, Geoffrey Harrison (Foreign Office), Miss Christine Knowles (British Prisoners of War Funds), Sir Francis Lindsay, Violet Milner (Viscountess Milner), Henry Newnham, Sir Archibald Sinclair (Viscount Thurso), Sir Frederick Whyte MP, Rear Admiral Sir Murray Sueter, and Field Marshal Sir John Dill; and his ts memoranda, notes and reports (43pp), relating to his contacts with Japanese officials, notably Major General Tatsumi, the Japanese Military Attaché in London, as a result of his former service as Military Attaché with the British Embassy in Tokyo, Japan; the situation in the Far East; and Anglo-Japanese relations, especially the reasons for tensions, Japanese aggression, and Japan joining the Axis in 1940; and commenting on the Washington Conference and the difficulties of reconciling Japanese expansionism with the interests of the British Empire and the United States; attempts to improve relations with Japan and to form an understanding and a good working arrangement with the Japanese; the change in relations with Japan once the Japanese had openly joined the Axis Pact and the resulting reconsideration of where British interests lay; Japanese relations with China, Germany, the USA and the USSR; Britain's failure to maintain the Anglo-Japanese alliance and to counter-act German influence on Japanese "patriots"; the American War Memorial at Gibraltar; a proposed Japanese Naval Memorial at Malta; and the Blitz on London.
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Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 2006-09-20