Miscellaneous letters and memoranda, 1916
File
MS. Asquith 30
Held at the Weston Library
- (fol. 1) Dispatch from Sir Rennell Rodd at Rome, chiefly on the effects of Asquith's visit there, Apr. 1916
- (fol. 5) Memoranda by Lord Derby and Walter Long on the position of married men unfairly induced to attest for military service, Apr. 1916
- (fol. 16) Proposals by N. Pemberton-Billing, M.P., for the reorganisation of the air services, Apr.1916
- (fol. 28) Memorandum by Austen Chamberlain on compulsory military service, Apr. 1916
- (fol. 32) Various letters and enclosures relating to recruiting, especially 'combing out' of badged men and retention of time-expired regulars, Apr. 1916
- (fol. 50) Resolution of Liberal M.P.s on necessity of Asquith's continuance as Prime Minister, Apr. 1916
- (fol. 55) Provisional report of the committee on civil liabilities of men joining the forces, Apr. 1916
- (fol. 62) Papers on compulsion (presumably connected with his secret session speech of 25 Apr.1916, - see MS. Asquith 49, fol. 185) including a compilation of Asquith's statements on the subject, Apr. 1916
- (fol. 70) Papers relating to the U.S. government's protest against seizure of Germans from the American steamer China, Apr. 1916
- (fol. 78) Memorandum by Lord Robert Cecil urging the resignation of the government, Apr. 1916
- (fol. 82) Asquith's notes for his statement to the House of Commons on compulsory military service, May 1916
- (fol. 95) Memorandum on air services by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, May 1916
- (fol. 103) Letters of Balfour and Grey on need to present the English view of the Irish rising to the U.S.A., May 1916
- (fol. 107) Stock letter in answer to charges of bad faith in connection with the pledges about widows' sons and military service, n.d.
- (fol. 109) Typewritten and printed quotations from speeches giving pledges against industrial conscription, n.d. (?late May 1916 or later).
- (fol. 116) Resolutions to be proposed by the British delegation to the Paris Economic Conference, together with a memorandum on the subject of the Conference for Asquith's guidance, June 1916
- (fol. 149) Papers relating to the French desire for an offensive from Salonika (see also MS. Asquith 16, fols. 189-90), June 1916
- (fol. 154) Report by Admiral Jellicoe on the loss of H.M.S. Hampshire with Lord Kitchener aboard, June 1916
- (fol. 159) Extract from a letter of Prince Ghika of the Roumanian parliament circulated by the General Staff, June 1916
- (fol. 162) Lloyd George's letter declining the Secretaryship of State for War, and a later memorandum by him on the financing of American contracts, June 1916
- (fol. 168) Notes by Asquith for a meeting of the Finance Committee, June 1916
- (fol. 172) Letters concerned chiefly with the composition of the Dardanelles and Mesopotamia Commissions, with some relating to evidence given before the former, July-Dec. 1916
- (fol. 210) Letters connected with the application of Sir Francis Vane to be appointed recruiting officer in Ireland, July-Nov. 1916
- (fol. 234) Letter and enclosure from Paul Hymans about German action against deposits of foreigners and refugees in Belgian banks, Aug. 1916
- (fol. 239) Letter from Lloyd George urging need of a special mission to Russia, Sept. 1916
- (fol. 243) Letter from Haig enclosing paper entitled, 'Observations on the Military Representation on the Governor General's Council [in India]', Also another paper giving reasons for the failure of the Indian army in Mesopotamia, Oct. 1916
- (fol. 254) Copies of correspondence between General Sir William Robertson and Lloyd George over the latter's alleged disregard of the former's advice. Attached there is also a letter from H. A. Gwynne to Asquith alleging 'a sort of plot' by Lloyd George and others to undermine Haig's position, Oct. 1916
- (fol. 265) Letters concerning a French request for an allotment of steel plates for shipbuilding, Nov. 1916.
- (fol. 271) A number of pieces of notepaper bearing jottings in Asquith's hand in an envelope marked 'War Committee Oct.'15-Dec.'16'. They appear to contain notes of decisions of the committee between those dates (the last noted is, in fact, 30 Nov. 1916),? Dec. 1916
- (fols. 281 and 283) Two undated papers, one on the military situation in Persia, the other apparently a record of a cabinet or war committee decision on the organization of the army in relation to manpower available
Dates
- 1916
Extent
283 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Asquith 30
Repository Details
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