File 11 - General political correspondence

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RAB/G/11

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General political correspondence

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  • 1940–1941 (Creation)

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Butler, Richard Austen (1902-1982), Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
(1902-1982)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Labelled 1940 by Julia Fish. Largely made up of Foreign Office papers and drafts of parliamentary statements on the course of the war, including RAB's views on Narvik as sent to Halifax and Cadogan, statement on Finnish-Soviet Peace Treaty. Also letters of congratulation on reappointment to the Foreign Office, texts of broadcasts on European situation, constituency correspondence and personal papers, copy letter Halifax to Churchill re RAB's conversation with Swedish Ministers

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