Item 103 - Letter from Frederick Pethick-Lawrence to R. C. Trevelyan

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TRER/18/103

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Letter from Frederick Pethick-Lawrence to R. C. Trevelyan

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  • 1 Sept 1945 (Creation)

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Fourways, Gomshall, Surrey. - Thanks Bob for writing with his and Bessie's congratulations and good wishes [on being appointed Secretary of State for India and Burma. A 'Cabinet Minister's job may be defined as follows:- to reconcile the irreconcilable, to solve the insoluble & generally to achieve the impossible' but the 'attempt is exhilarating'.

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      Annotation in pen, perhaps in Elizabeth Trevelyan's hand, under the signature 'Fred', that this means 'Pethick-Lawrence'.

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