W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

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• GDN/145/30/1-GDN/145/38/44
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The file contains correspondence relating to Palestine and the Middle East, particularly the settlement of Jewish refugees from Europe and the creation of a Jewish state. The file includes reports on the agricultural and financial resources of Palestine, the arms smuggling trade, and detailed accounts of interviews between Moshe Shertok [Sharett] and Harold MacMichael, High Commissioner for Palestine. There are also significant materials from Chaim Weizmann, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech, and Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier. Pieces 145/31-34 and 145/36 a...

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• GDN/145/38/110-34
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New Statesman and Nation. The file includes reports and correspondence concerning economic and labour statistics in Palestine, the continuing immigration of Jewish refugees, continuing violence in Palestine including the Tiberias Massacre, and the proceedings of the Palestine Partition Commission. There is also an account of the activities of Jewish activists and organisations in the United States, interviews with several statesmen about Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state, and several clippings from the

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Manchester Guardian The file contains correspondence concerning negotiations to increase the number of Jewish refugees allowed into Palestine, the defence of Jewish settlements, and negotiations between the Jewish delegation and the British government at the Palestine Conferences. The rest of the file is largely concerned with the diplomatic tensions leading to the Second World War. This includes extensive hand-written notes by Crozier on events such as the White Paper of 1939, a potential Anglo-Polish alliance, pogroms in Poland and Hungary, and extensive negotiations between Britain and R...

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The file contains reports concerning the political situation in Europe after Germany's annexation of Austria, the plight of Austrian Jews attempting to flee to Palestine, the establishment of the Hanita settlement in Galilee, and the proceedings of the Palestine Partition Commission.

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The file contains reports and correspondence concerning plans for continued Jewish settlement in Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state, including the settlement of the Alonim group of immigrant youths, the potential establishment of a Jewish settlement at Galilee, the prospective treatment of the Arab minority in the Jewish state, and British defence plans. There are also demographic reports estimating the number of Jews in Palestine and the number of Jews who were trained craftsmen or soldiers. There are also minutes of various meetings between the Palestine Parition Commission...

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The file primarily contains reports and correspondence concerning violence against Jews in Palestine, including local bombings, the arming of Jews for self-defence, and meetings with Turkish and Palestinian officials. There are also reports on two new Jewish settlements, anti-Jewish propaganda in Lebanon, Palestinian security, and the minutes of the proceedings of the Palestine Partition Commission.

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This file contains correspondence relating to the Second World War, including the mobilisation of Finnish and Russian forces, German propaganda, British naval intelligence, economic and natural resources in Germany, relations with neutral countries, especially Romania and Scandinavian countries, and the treatment of Jewish refugees by British forces in Palestine. The file includes correspondence from journalists including Marcel Fodor, correspondent in Brussels.

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• GDN/145/40/115-172
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The file contains a mixture of correspondence concerning foreign and domestic affairs. The foreign correspondence concerns negotiations with China and Japan about the Burma Road, rumours of a German invasion of Ireland, the mobilisation of troops in Palestine, public opinion in South Africa, reactions to the battle of Dakar and the Vichy government, and interviews with Jews and Muslims in Baghdad, Beirut, and Damascus. Domestic correspondence concerns the natural resources of Great Britain, continued debates about censorship and the role of the press, and public opinion of Neville Chamberla...

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• GDN/145/40/173-293
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Manchester Guardian The file primarily contains correspondence and Crozier's notes relating to domestic affairs, including reports of air raid casualties, circulation of the , food shortages, and relations with Ireland and Irish neutrality. Foreign correspondence concerns reports from French soldiers and other informants in Syria, diplomatic relations with the Netherlands, the United States, Japan, and the Vichy government, Spain's annexation of Tangiers, and Jewish refugees turned away in Palestine.

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• GDN/145/40/294-341
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Manchester Guardian The file contains correspondence and reports concerning the aftermath of the disaster, including accounts of meetings between Moshe Shertok [Sharrett] and High Commissioner for Palestine Harold MacMichael. There are also reports on the state of the Near and Far East and Yugoslavia. Domestically, the file contains air raid reports. There is also correspondence concerning censorship of the British press and the operations of the during the war, including wartime bonuses for some staff members and mention of an office air raid shelter.

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• GDN/145/40/31-114
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Manchester Guardian This file contains extensive materials on diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Russia, negotiations with Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and Japan, and British military action in France and Belgium. There are also materials concerning the circulation of the and the possibility of mandatory censorship of the British press. The file contains correspondence from Alexander Werth, correspondent in Russia, and Charles Lambert, correspondent in Germany.

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Patria Manchester Guardian The file contains correspondence and reports concerning domestic and foreign affairs, including reports of the treatment of Jewish refugees by British soldiers, Libya, Finland, and Jewish refugees aboard in the wake of the disaster. Domestically, the file contains materials concerning rationing, the evacuation of British children, air raid reports, and interviews with Anthony Eden. There are also materials concerning the circulation, sales, advertisement,and accounts of the .

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• GDN/145/41/1-100
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The file contains correspondence and reports concerning domestic and foreign affairs, including reports on the state of the British navy and army, accounts of meetings between Anthony Eden and Joseph Stalin and a meeting between Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier and Edvard Beneš about the Czechoslovakian Jews. There are also materials concerning Yugloslavia, Spain, Iraq, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Japan, Denmark, and relations between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. Additionally, there is a significant amount of materials concerning the deportation of Jewish refugees from Palestine and mobilising Jewish...

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Manchester Guardian The file contains correspondence and Crozier's notes on foreign and domestic events. Materials include reports on continued Jewish immigration to Palestine, including the arming of Jewish refugees and Jewish divisions in the British armed forces, and correspondence from Charles Lambert concerning the Balkans, Iraq, Iran, the Vichy government, Spain, Libya, and food supplies in France. There are also reports about the Blitz, including air raid reports and analysis of the effects on the economy and workforce, as well as reports on the cabinet and provisions for the wartime...

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The file contains correspondence and reports, primarily from Charles Lambert and Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier concerning diplomatic and military action in Greece, Russia, Norway, Finland, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Spain, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, France, Belgium, and Germany. It includes reports of the flight and attempted peace negotiations of Rudolf Hess in Scotland, Japanese propaganda in Syria and Lebanon, Wendell Wilkie's visit to Europe, Australian soliders in Palestine, reactions to the sinking of , the Turko-German pact, and Anthony Eden. There are also accounts of interviews between Namier an...

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The file contains foreign correspondence, primarily from Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier and Charles Lambert. Contents include air raid reports and reports on diplomatic relations in Russia, Iraq, Japan, Poland, France, Syria, Palestine, and Turkey. A large portion of the materials deals with the German invasion of Russia and anti-Jewish riots and pogroms in Baghdad. Other topics include petrol rationing in Britain, the United States's take over of military operations in Iceland, air raids in Hull, the situation of Jews in Yugoslavia, the proceedings of the Home Security Conference, and the Jewi...

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The file contains foreign correspondence, especially from Charles Lambert and Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, concerning relations between Syria and France, Russia, Germany, Lebanon, Egypt, the United States, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Libya, the Battle of the Atlantic, Palestine, Japan, and Turkey. There are also materials concerning the Jewish war effort in Palestine, Jews in Croatia, Rudolf Hess, Charles de Gaulle, the possibility of an Arab Federation, reactions to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Eight Point Plan, and analysis of American political figures such as Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sum...

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The file contains correspondence largely concerned with foreign affairs, including Iran, Libya, Turkey, trade agreements between Turkey and Germany, Mexico, the United States, Spain, Palestine, Persia, Italy, Serbia, Finland, and the possibility of a Japanese attack on China or Russia. There are also materials concerning the Zionist movement in South Africa, the Jewish and Palestinian contributions to the war effort, the possibility of a Jewish Division within the British armed forces, work camps in France, Jewish detainment camps in Mauritius, and reports on home security. In three instanc...

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The file contains foreign correspondence on topics including Hitler's plan for a "new order in Europe", Persia, Finland, Japan, Libya, Abyssinia/Ethiopia, Iraq, Palestine, India, Russia, Burma, the Battle of Rostov, public opinion in Germany, Jews in Romania and immigration of Romanian and Hungarian Jews to Palestine, and Sir Winston Churchill's visit to the United States. The file also contains correspondence between Chaim Weizmann and Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, an account of a meeting between Mose Shertok [Sharrett] and Sir Harold MacMichael, High Commissioner for Palestine, an int...

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• GDN/145/42/1-100
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The file contains correspondence and reports concerning Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Syria, Yugoslavia, Malaya, Spain, Switzerland, Lebanon, Abyssinia/Ethiopia, Persia, German military operations, German activities in the Middle East, changing relations with the Vichy government and Charles de Gaulle, Jews in France and the Netherlands, and demographic data about the Jewish population in France, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunis. The file also contains correspondence from interned Jewish refugees in Mauritius and appeals to admit children and relatives turned away or detained in Palestine. The file con...