Winston Churchill Appointment Diaries, Sept 1939 - June 1945

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Whilst you can filter by Year, navigating and locating individual months is awkward via the GWU Library website, so I've created an index below and a post for each month. (The link in each month's post can be used to access the website/download images in formats alternative to PDF.)

n.b. Transcribers used American format for dates.

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September 1939
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9/1/1939 3:00 DP(P) 10 Downing St

9/4/1939 11:30am War Cabinet CWR 10:00am DS 5:00pm Duke of Westminster

9/5/1939 9:50am [two words illegible] 10:50am Drax (if train punctual) 3:30pm Cab [[note: Cab could refer to Cabinet]] 11:30pm Mr. Cross

9/6/1939 10:00am Admiral Evans 10:10am Admiral Oliver

9/7/1939 11:15am Tyrwhitt 1:10pm Mr. Young 4:30pm [illegible torn page] H.O.

9/9/1939 Dr Revesy

9/11/1939 4:30pm Shipping Defence [illegible] Committee

9/12/1939 10:00am New [illegible] Controller 5:00pm Lady Cranborne 9:30pm Colville & D of P [illegible]

9/13/1939 5:00pm Rear Admiral [illegible] Walker 5:00pm [illegible]

9/14/1939 Nore visit

9/15/1939 11:45am Cabinet [[note: time appears after Cabinet in original]] 4:.00pm Board 4:30pm Ld Beaverbrook 5:15pm Mr Knickerbocker 5:30pm Lloyd's

9/18/1939 Lunch Howe 4:30pm M. Til [[illegible]][[note: torn page]

9/19/1939 3:30pm LF [[note: rest of page torn]] 4:00pm

9/20/1939 5:00pm - Crace 5:50 Mr [illegible] [[note: page torn]]

9/22/1939 1:30pm Lunch - Lady Lytton Fl [[note: page torn]] ? Dinner Halifax 4:00pm Board 5:00pm Press 6:00pm Cabinet

9/25/1939 ? Spies 4:15pm Professor 4:45pm Lord [illegible] 4:30pm French Ambassador 5:00pm Sir R Storrs 5:15pm Lloyds 5:30pm Barney [illegible] 6:00pm Cabinet

9/26/1939 Lunch at Eden's

9/27/1939 Lunch at Flat 5:00 [Services ?]

9/28/1939 1:30pm Lunch with Lady Maureen Dudley Devonfort ? [illegibile] [[note: page torn]]

9/30/1939 [[note: page torn]]30 Sir R Vansittart to lunch pm Chartwell [[note: Churchill's country home]]
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October 1939
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10/1/1939 First Lord doing Sunday duty Lunch with Mr Bracken. 9:15pm Broadcast [[note: broadcast time follows the notation broadcast in the original]]

10/2/1939 10:65am Central War Room [two words illegible] 1:30pm Lord Home to lunch at flat. 4:30pm Turkish Ambassador 5:30 King 5:30 Ministerial [three words unintelligible] Room 8:15pm Dinner Sir S Hoare

10/3/1939 10:30am. Col. Muirhead Lunch at Flat 4:.45pm Mr. Mann - Yorkshire Post 5:00pm Head of [KenelAwith ?] Col Wiedemann 5:15pm Lord Marchwood 5:30pm Sir S. Cripps 6:00 Sir E. Grigg

10/4/1939 Mr. Randolph's wedding 1:00pm? St. Johns Smith Sq.[[note: refers to the marriage of Churchill's only son Randolph to Pamela Digby]] 5.30pm Cabinet Dine at fort - Capt Margesson

10/5/1939 10:00am C.I.G.S. [[note: refers to Chief of Imperial General Staff]] 10:45 or 11:00am American Ambassador[[note: Joseph P. Kennedy, father of John F. Kennedy]] 4:00pm HM Visit [[note: HM could refer to His Majesty King George VI]] 5:00pm Capt.[illegible] wesstrom Swedish MA 5:00pm Sir R Keyes 5:15pm Mr Charles Jarman

10/6/1939 10:00pm Soviet Ambassador 10:45pm Lord Bork 11:00 M. Ede (Sunday Dispatch Editor)

10/9/1939 4:00pm PM 5.00pm Stand back by for for KN 6:30pm H.M.K.

10/10/1939 5 0 meeting to [indistinguishable] getting u [indistinguishable] 6.15 Dept. General Isima's [indistinguishable] 930 [indistinguishable] 745 Keyes

10/11/1939 7:45am Keyes 9:30am Kitty 10:00am HPC - 6 RICHMOND TERRACE 11:30am Cabinet 5:30pm Flower Dine [illegible]

10/12/1939 11am Sir Ralph [Glynn?] 1:30pm Lunch - with [Eden?] at Savoy - [Mal Watison?] 5:00pm Rationing 5:00pm Mr. [two words illegible]] (Yankee Journalist)

10/13/1939 7:00am Target towing - [illegible] [airport?] 10:00am Neutral Tonnage - meeting 4:15pm [Grozier?] (Manchester Guardian) [[note: Manchester Guardian is a British newspaper]] 4:30pm Kell 5:00pm Meeting Talk in [Clubs?] 6:00pm Board PM dine at Admiy [[note: This notation could mean that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dined with Churchill at the Admiralty.]]

10/16/1939 11:15am Major Sir E. Crankshaw 4:30pm [No.10 meeting?] 5:30pm Mr Wade (introduced by Mr Richards) 5:45pm [Capt.?] Munroe. 6 [illegible] 6:00pm Sir R. Keyes 10:00pm Admty, Air Min meeting

10/17/1939 4:30pm Bowhill 6:00pm Tilea 6:30pm Dominion [illegible].

10/18/1939 1:15pm Lunch at Carlton Hotel Mr Harcourt Johnstone 5:00pm [air?] policy 6:00pm Wren

10/19/1939 7:00am? Frank H. Phares 1:30pm Lunch with Mr Eden 17 [Fitzbody?] St. 4:00pm Admiral [Swioski?] 4:15pm Meeting with Mr [Reoln?] PM's room H of C [[note: PM Room could refer to Prime Minister's Room; H of C could refer to House of Commons, London, UK]] 5:45pm Cab. Reports 5.35 10 Downing St Dinner to High Commissioners

10/20/1939 10:00am Meeting 5:00pm [illegible]] March of Time [[note: March of Time was a US radio show and a film series shown in movie theatres]] 6:00pm Board 7:00 pm Orbay [[note: possibly General Kiasim Orbay, head of the Turkish Military Mission, who arrived in London on October 3, 1939]] 7:30pm A.V. Alexander [[note: possibly Alexander, Albert Victor, Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, 1885-1965]]

10/23/1939 L. [[note: L could refer to lunch]] Sir V Kell [[note: possibly Sir Vernon Kell, MI5]] 5:00pm L F. [commitee?] 6 Richmond Terrace 6.30pm Cabinet at No 10 [[No 10 [Downing Street] London, UK]]

10/24/1939 4:00pm Admiral Osborne 4:30pm Dr Revesy 5:00pm Chinese Ambassador 10:30pm Conference

10/25/1939 10:00am H.P.C. 6 Richmond Terrace 1:15pm Lunch with Turkish Ambassador [illegible] 5:00pm Meeting with Lord Chatfield at 3 Richmond Terrace 6:00pm Cabinet 10:00pm D.S.

10/26/1939 11:00am Mr. D. Flower [[note: Flower, Desmond John Newman, 1907-1997]] [line of writing erased, ending with (?)] 3:00pm Further Meeting with Mr. Bevin [[note: possible reference to Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951]] 4:15pm Turks Conference - 6 Richmond Terrace 6:00pm Air Ministry [ 7:30 Wally (?) [illegible] 8:15pm Otter Club. [[note: Otter Club was a water polo club]] 10:00pm [illegible]]

10/27/1939 10:30am/pm General Morgan [[note: (possibly General Frederick Morgan]] [[note: unclear whether this entry is on 10/27 or at the end of 10/26]] 5:15pm Projectiles - DNO Ordnance Board, AM. Professor Lunch [illegible] 4:00pm 5 - Gun mountings 6:30pm Films 170 [Narden?] St. [ 7:30pm Spears 9.30pm Meeting Genl. Ismay's Rooms [[note: Ismay, Hastings Lionel, Baron Ismay, 1887-1965)]]

10/28/1939 10:00am - Sat Tizard [[note: possibly Tizard, Sir Henry Thomas 1885-1959]] 7:00pm Dinner Film 10:30pm DCNS

10/29/1939 12:00noon Cabinet Lunch 8. Lord North Street

10/30/1939 12:00noon Cabinet Lunch - P.M. 4:30pm PM's Committee 7:00pm Alexander Dine Reform Club 7:30pm Home - Dinner [[note: possibly Home, Alexander Frederick Douglas 1903-1981)

10/31/1939 6:30pm India Meeting
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November 1939
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11/1/1939 1:15pm for 1:30pm - Dominions Luncheon, Savoy Hotel 4:15pm Urbay [illegible] [[note: could also be Orbay; this name appears more than once in this project; spelling should be standardized) 5:00pm [illegible] 6:30pm 6:00pm Richmond Terrace 6:30pm Meeting with Mr Wood ([illegible])

11/3/1939 1:30pm Lunch Savoy Eden

11/6/1939 10:15am Halifax comes over 3:15 pm Cabinet ? 6:00pm [Ogelur ?] 6:30pm Campbell Stuart 8:15 pm Dinner - Dominions reps.

11/7/1939 11:00am Cabinet Photograph Lunch 2nd SL 4:00pm [illegible] C ? 5.00 Lady 6:00pm Chatfield arrives over? [two words illegible] ? 6:45pm[illegible] 7:00pm Literary Interview9:30pm CNS, Controller DNC etc

11/8/1939 Hawkey lunch [[note: Hawkey could also be Hankey]] ILS Statement Lord [Cadman?] at House after statement 6:00pm Lloyd 6:15pm Dutch Minister 6:45pm [Loraine ?] 7:00pm Air Ministry meeting here.

11/9/1939 Lunch with American Journalists (Carlton Restaurant) [[note: Carleton Restaurant, London, UK]] 4:30pm [Cerearer?] 5:30pm Shipping Meeting 8:15pm Otter Club 9:30pm Cabinet

11/10/1939 4:30pm Hankey. Chatfield. DNI. [[note: DNI could also be DN1]]

11/11/1939 4:30pm Admiral Osborne Mr & Mrs Randolph dining Admiralty House

11/12/1939 9:15 Broadcast [[note: could be am or pm]]

11/13/1939 Dinner at Dorchester 1:30pm Lunch [illegible] 8 Lord North St 3:00pm 4:30pm M. Reynaud 5:30pm Chinese Ambassador 6:30pm Air Ministry Meeting 10:00pm Underground Storage Meeting

11/14/1939 1:30pm Lunch with Lord Beaverbrook [illegible] News Reel Photograph 5:30pm General Sikorski 6:00pm General Sikorski (Private Door) [[/strike/]] Cabinet 4:00pm King 5:15pm D of D F.O. Dinner to Sikorski 5:40pm MDG 10:00pm Gatherine

11/15/1939 1:50?pm. L. and Lady P for lunch 4:00 Coordination Committee 4:30 at Air Ministry [illegible] 6:00 Committee on K's Speech. Board Room Treasury Dinner with Polish Ambassador 8 pm

11/16/1939 Coordination Committee 4:30pm Stein . 6:00pm [2 words illegible] 5:30pm Sir W. Wiseman 6:00pm SteinCoordination Cttee 6:30pm Air Ministry

11/17/1939 9:45am Ironside 10:00am [two words illegible] Grow. Prof. Osborne. 4:30pm Board. 5:30pm Cabinet

11/18/1939 Lunch at Carlton Club. Chartwell.

11/19/1939 5:00pm Cabinet

11/20/1939 Lunch: Kingsley Wood, Lindemann, [Cerawl?] 4:15pm Sir R. Keyes 4:15 pm Leslie Paton, 29 Harley St [[note: place: 29 Harley St. London, UK]] 4.30 Dominion Ministers 3 Richmond Terrace.

11/21/1939 9:30pm Conference [[note:move this entry to the previous day's list]] Guests for lunch 4:30pm [Generalist] 5.30 U.S. Naval Attache Dominions Mtg. 6:00pm [Craigavon?] 7:15pm [Craigavon] 10:00pm Staff meeting

11/22/1939 Mr. & Mrs. Fellowes to lunch. The Stanleys. + Ironsides. 4:00pm U S Naval Attache 4:15pm Mr [Mason?] 4:30pm Military Coordination Committee. 7.30 for 8. 422 Cttee Dinner (Junior [Crest?] Club) [[pencilwriting [illegible] [[/pencilwriting]] 6:30pm Burgin at Air Ministry

11/23/1939 10:00am War cabinet 4:30pm Dentist. 29 Harley St Roumanian [Rumanian] Legation - lunch (Mr & Mrs C). (1. Belgrave Sq. 1:15pm for 1:30pm) 8:15pm Other Club [[note: Could be Otter Club]] 7:15pm [Controller?]. D T M

11/24/1939 10:30am Oculist Lord Winterton + Lord Cranborneto lunch. 5:00pm Sir P Loraine [[note: this individual appears in an earlier entry; check for spelling]] 6:00pm D of Kent

11/26/1939 [Eaton?]

11/27/1939 :00am Privy Council (Ordinary clothes) 4:30pm Letter on Lighting Restrictions 6:30pm Meeting at Air Ministry 9:30pm Mine meeting

11/28/1939 10:00am Cabinet 5:00pm American Ambassador 6:00pm Wingate 6:30pm Thursfield ("Times") 7:00pm Strabolgi [[note: possibly Joseph Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabogi]] 8:15pm Dinner Lady M. Stanley 10:00pm [[strike [illegible] staff meeting [[note: this item could possibly have been scheduled for 11/29/39 see original]]

11/29/1939 10.30 Staff Meeting [[note: this item could have been scheduled for 11/28/39; see previous entry]] Lord & Lady Lytton to lunch 5:00pm Camrose 5.30pm Thursfield 5:45pm Strabolgi 6.00pm Wingate 6:00pm Lighting Restrictions Committee 4:30 Military Coordinator Committee (cancelled)

11/30/1939 1:30pm Eden lunch 4:15pm Mr. Butterworth 4:40pm Cerearar 5:00pm Lighting Restrictions Committee. Family [Jennies?] Admir [note: could refer to Admiralty House, where Churchill lived as First Lord of the Admiralty]]
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December 1939
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12/1/1939 1:30pm Lunch Buckingham Palace 5:00pm Secretary General of Turkish F O [[note: F O could be an abbreviation for Foreign Office]] 6:00pm Magnetic Mine meeting

12/2/1939 10:30am War Cabinet

12/3/1939 5:30pm War Cabinet Dinner with Oliver Stanley

12/4/1939 5 Sea Lord to lunch 5:00pm [Casey?] 10:00pm Mine meeting

12/5/1939 1:30pm Gen & Mrs Freyberg to lunch & Admiral Lovell 4:30pm Mr. [Fraser] 5:30pm Military Coordination 8:00pm Dinner Admiralty House

12/6/1939 Admiral [Odendbul?] , Mrs. [Berk?] Lord & Lady Louis Mountbatten 4.30pm Cabinet [5:00pm?]Military Coordination Cttee after Cab. [[note: Cttee is probably an abbreviation for Committee; Cab. is probably an abbreviation for Cabinet]]

12/7/1939 Lady D'Abernon 1:30pm Etc DCNS 4:30pm Military Coord 6:15pm Meeting of Ministers 8:15pm Other Club

12/8/1939 4:00pm Mr Young 4:30pm Press Conference 5:30pm Military Co-ordn. Cttee [[note: Military Coordination Committee]] 7:00pm Air Ministry 10:00pm Magnetic Mine program

12/9/1939 10:30am Cabinet PM Cinema with Mrs Churchill

12/10/1939 Lunch at Chartwell 5:00pm Cabinet

12/11/1939 4:30pm Military Coordination 6:30pm Colonel Menzies Dinner Hore-Belisha & CIGS 10:00pm Royal Marine 10:45pm Monckton 11:00 pm [illegible]

12/12/1939 4:00pm S.L. to lunch 5:00pm Lord Beaverbrook 6:.00pm [Cultivator?] Dinner Air 10:00pm Royal Marine

12/13/1939 1:15pm for 1:30pm Strakosch - Claridge's [illegible] 6pm Talk to Peers 9:30pm Magnetic Mines

12/14/1939 10:00am Cabinet L.G. to lunch 4.15pm Dr. Revesy [[strike 4:30pm Military Coordination[[/strike 4:30pm Cabinet 5pm 7:00pm Crerar W Revesy 7:45pm Dine Sir J Gilmour - ACNS. DTD. Professor 9.30pm Magnetic Mines 10.00 or after Sir A Sinclair

12/15/1939 Fairburn lunch 4:15pm? 4:15pm Adm Binney [[note: Adm could be abbreviation for Admiral]] 4:20pm Adm Lyster 5.30. Revesy (?) 4:25pm Pipon 4:30 pm Dreyer 5:30pm Revesy (?) 6.30 7:00pm Fedden 5:00pm Military Coordination Deakin [[note: can't tell whether WSC met with Deakin as past of Military Coordination or later]] 6:30pm 7 Fedden 5 Military CoordinationDine Oliver Stanley

12/16/1939 Lunch with Eden. Blum. 10:30am Cabinet 12:00noon Hillgarth? 5:00pm Admiral Dreyer

12/17/1939 7:00pm Weizmann

12/18/1939 10:30am Cabinet 4:30pm Adml. Raikes 4:30pm Board 5:30pm Military Co-ord

12/19/1939 4:00pm Military Coordination 6:30pm Meeting at Air Ministry 10:00pm Royal Marine: Magnetic Mine

12/20/1939 4:00pm. C & D air. [[red overwriting]] at [[/red overwriting]] Admty. [[in red]] ? [[/in red]] 4:30pm [illegible] 5:30pm Military Coordination [[in red]] C. [[/in red]] Dinner Admty. House

12/21/1939 10:00am Cabinet 1:30pm Lunch Admty House French Embassy 6:30pm Board Meeting 8:15pm Other Club

12/22/1939 11:00am Cabinet 5:00pm Military Coordination CTTEE. 7:00pm AGRM

12/23/1939 No Cabinet 1:00pm Kell 1:15pm Lunch BB

12/24/1939 No Cabinet

12/25/1939 No Cabinet

12/26/1939 No Cabinet HALIFAX DINE (?)

12/27/1939 11:30am Cabinet Lunch Page - [Ceroft ?] - Carlton Hotel 5:00pm Drax 6:00pm Magnetic Mine

12/28/1939 Cabinet if necessary 4:30pm Sir James Hawkey [[illegible]] Robert [Rennick?]

12/29/1939 No Cabinet

12/30/1939 No Cabinet Portland Miss [Terne ?]
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January 1940
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1/1/1940 No Cabinet

1/2/1940 11:00am [Cab.?] 4:30pm DNC 6:30pm Col Menzies Dinner Admiralty House.

1/3/1940 4.00pm Shipping Meeting 5:00pm Military Coordination 7:45pm Colonel Gretton

1/6/1940 3 Ministers [[note: cannot tell whether 3 refers to time or number of ministers who attended]]

1/7/1940 No Cabinet

1/8/1940 3 Ministers

1/9/1940 3 Ministers

1/10/1940 11:00am P.M. [[note: P.M. could refer to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain]] 4:30pm Dentist 5:30pm N C [Misty?]

1/11/1940 4:30pm Desmond Flower 5:00pm Admiral Holland 5:10pm Admiral Vivian

1/12/1940 11:15pm Sir Athol Anderson 1:30pm Gen Spears lunch Admty House 4:30pm Col ERDELHUN 5:00pm MILITARY COORDINATION 6:30pm Air Min meeting in Board Room 8:00pm Anderson

1/13/1940 FIRST LORD ON DUTY CABINET

1/14/1940 5:00pm Sir Horace Wilson.

1/15/1940 1:00pm Lunch (Mr Amery) 11:30pm. Sir J. Reith 3:00pm Cabinet. 5:00pm (?) Danish Naval Attache[acute] 5.30 Military Coordination. Mrs Sandys to dine [[note: Mrs. Sandys could refer to WSC's daughter Diana Churchill Sandys]] 9:30pm 10:00 R.M.

1/16/1940 1:30pm Lunch with French Ambassador 5:00pm Argentine Naval Attache [[srike]] 5:30pm Scapa Conference . Debate 5:30pm Military Co-ordination. H of C. [[note: H of C. could refer to the British House of Commons, London, UK]] [[pencil underwriting]] Mrs. Sandys to dine[[/pencil underwriting]] [[note: Mrs. Sandys could refer to WSC's daughter Diana Churchill Sandys]]

1/17/1940 1:15pm Lunch to French Journalists 4:30pm Roumanian Minister 5:00pm Military Coordination 6:30pm No. 10 Meeting

1/18/1940 10:00am . Dr. Revery 4:30pm Mr. Crozier (Manchester Guardian) [[note: Manchester Guardian was a newspaper]] 5:00pm Yugoslav Minister 5:15pm Roumanian Minister 5:30pm Scapa Conference Catherine DNC (Cultivator) Dinner to Dautry 6:30pm Shipbuilding Meeting

1/19/1940 1:30pm Mr Oliver & Lady Maureen Stanley to lunch and Mr Eden 4:30pm Sir E. Grigg 5:00pm Scapa Conference 6:40pm 7:00pmV A. [two words illegible] [[/strikeout]] dinner?Military Coordination Sir K Wood and Lord B

1/20/1940 12:00noon Cabinet 1:00pm Mr. Deakin to lunch, & Sir Roger Keyes 9:15pm Broadcast

1/21/1940 10:30am Hairdresser 11:00am Sir Andrew Duncan 4:30pm Mr. Snedden (Shipbuilding Federation)

1/22/1940 10:00am Sir [J. Lidgas?] illegible 5:00pm Mr Harris (Lloyds Bank) Mr. Snedden (Shipbuilding Federation) 6:30pm Robb (Concrete ships) 7:00pm [Catronime?] 10 U.P Meeting

1/23/1940 Also Mons. Masaryk, Sir Edward Marsh & Miss [[1 word illegible]]Mrs. Laughton-Matthews to Lunch (Z) [[note: (Z) could also be the number 2]] 4:30pm Sir P Harris 5:00pm. A.G.R.M. 5.30pm Military Coordination

1/24/1940 Lord & Lady Cranborne to lunch 4:00pm Lord Privy Seal's Committee. 10:00am. Mr Harris (Bank) 1922 COMMITTEE. (SPEECH) H of C. 5:10pm [[Note: this line is circled in red ]]

1/25/1940 Secretary, Parly Secy, Mrs Shakespeare, Prof L to Lunch [[note: Prof. L could refer to Frederick Lindemann, scientific adviser to the British government and close associate of WSC.]] 4:30pm Dentist 5:45pm New Construction Meeting

1/26/1940 Lunch with Stanleys 4:30pm Major Jefferis & Cor. Varley 6:00pm Magnetic Mine

1/27/1940 2:30pm Speak Manchester

1/28/1940 Lunch Mr Bracken [[note: Mr. Bracken is Brendan Bracken]] 5:30pm Mr Bullock

1/29/1940 4:30pm Admiral Brivonesi (Italian N.A. on departure) [[note: N.A. could be abbreviation for naval attache]] 5:00pm Sir [two words illegible] 6:15pm Dinner [three words illegible]

1/30/1940 8:00pm. D [rest of word illegible]] Army.

1/31/1940 1:30pm Lunch Yugoslav Minister 5:00pm? Questions H of C 6:00pm Magnetic Mine 7:15pm [three words illegible] 10:00pm U.P. Meeting
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February 1940
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2/1/1940 4:30pm Dentist

2/2/1940 1:30pm Lunch Scandinavian Journalists 5:30pm Varley Sir A and Lady Sinclair to dine [[note: Sir A Sinclair refers to Sir Archibald Sinclair then head of the Liberal Party and future Secretary of State for Air May1940-May 1945]] 10:00pm 1940-1

2/3/1940 First Lord on Duty Cabinet 5:00pm 1940-1

2/5/1940 4.30pm [illegible] Sir (illegible) Hawtrey Mr Dewar 8.30 [four words illegible, erased]

2/6/1940 Luncheon Park

2/7/1940 Luncheon party

2/8/1940 Jefferis and Varley 5:00pm General Spears 5:30pm Military Coordination 8:15pm Other Club

2/9/1940 Lord Mayor's Luncheon 3:30pm M. C. [[illegible]] 5:30pm Zaleski 6:00pm Reith

2/10/1940 10:30pm Cabinet Sir J Hawkey & Mr Dewar to lunch

2/12/1940 10:45am Military Coordination Committee 4:30pm SofS for Air [[note: SofS stands for Secretry of State]] 8:30pm Dinner Buckingham Palace

2/13/1940 Lunch Mr. John and Lady Gwendoline Churchill and Lord and Lady Cranborne [[note: John and Lady Gwendoline Churchill are WSC's brother and sister-in-law.]] 6:00pm Mr. Shinwell, ACNS

2/14/1940 10:45am Lord Mountbatten -Admiralty House Lord Cecil to lunch? 4:30pm Board meeting 5:50pm Rear Adml Bevan ( new Naval Attach . Rowe) 6:00pm Magnetic Mines

2/16/1940 Mr Hulton Luncheon Party " " 4:30pm Captain [Jefferies?] 5:30pm Air Ministry meeting

2/17/1940 10:00am Cabinet 12:00noon Sir Roger Keyes 5:00pm Sir Walter Monckton

2/18/1940 6:00pm Sir Walter Monckton

2/19/1940 4:30pm Board Meeting 6:30pm Air Ministry 11:00pm Monckton

2/20/1940 Lady Clifford lunches 4:30pm Sir A. Hardinge 5:00pm Captain Everett (Ajax) 5:15pm [Burgin ?] I.S.L. Controller

2/21/1940 Lady Colefax to lunch 5:15pm Captain Daniel 5:30pm Danish Naval Attache 5:45pm [Snetton ?]

2/22/1940 10:30am Early Cabinet 1:00pm Major Mills 1:30pm [Mr?]. Marchbanks w/[Mr. Carrigan?] to lunch 4:30pm 4:15 Board 8:15pm Other Club [[note: Other Club is a political dining society founded by WSC and F.E. Smith]]

2/23/1940 Early Cabinet 11:30am [Exeter?] etc 3:30pm Cabinet4:30pm Joubert 6:00pm 2 U.P. 6:30pm [[pencil underwriting]]aux[[/pencil underwriting]] Rac 10:00pm UP x Bursary RM

2/24/1940 First Lord on Duty Cabinet (11:00 am) Mr Flower to lunch 8:00pm Dinner at Mr Eden's

2/25/1940 12:30pm Commander Bickford ("Salmon").

2/26/1940 Board 4:30pm 5:00 4:45pm Kermit Roosevelt [[note: Kermit Roosevelt was the son of Theodore Roosevelt and the first cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt]] 7:00pm N.A. Helsinki

2/27/1940 1:30pm Lunch Spanish Embassy Navy Estimates

2/28/1940 Captain Euan Wallace to lunch 6:00 pm Magnetic Mine [[note: This entry is outlined in red.]]

2/29/1940 Lobby Journalists
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March 1940
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3/1/1940 Mr & Mrs Euan Wallace to lunch [[pencil underwriting]] [two words illegible] [[/pencil underwriting]] 4:30pm Drax 4:45pm Admiral Holt 5:00pm HRH [[note: HRH could stand for His/Her Royal Highness and could refer to a member of the British Royal Family]] 5:15pm Scapa Meeting 7:00pm Admiral Edward Collins 7:30pm General Spears 10:00pm Operation S.N.

3/2/1940 10:30am FIRST LORD'S CABINET DUTY 12:00noon. Adml Edward-Collins. 12:10pm Stefan Levant Sir Reginald & Lady Soames \ Mr. Deakin to lunch

3/3/1940 6:30pm Sir Horace Wilson

3/4/1940 Lady Desborough to lunch 5.30 M.C. (I L's room in H of C) Sir R. Glyn [[note: H of C could refer to House of Commons]]

3/5/1940 1.30pm Mr. Roosevelt to lunch + Lord + Lady Halifax [[note: Need to determine which Mr. Roosevelt came to lunch; could have been a Roosevelt cousin; probably not one of FDR's sons]] Beatty 5:00pm [illegible] [[note: Looks as though something was erased]] 5:30pm [Dorchester?] 5:40pm Edelstein 5:50pm 4:30pm Adml Holt 6:00pm Anthony Eden 6:15pm [illegible] 6:30pm Beatty Admiralty House Dinner

3/6/1940 4:30pm Sir R. Glyn. 5:15pm [Edelstein?] 5:30pm Captain [Danckwerts?] 5:00pm [Kennedy-Purvis?] 5:15pm Chaplain of the Fleet

3/7/1940 1:30pm Lunch Spanish Embassy 5:30pm Captain Danckwerts 7:00pm[illegible] Mr. Bracken [[note: Mr. Bracken could be Brendan Bracken]]

3/11/1940 4:30pm MC I Ln Room H of C [[note: H of C could refer to House of Commons]]

3/12/1940 1:30pm Lunch at Spanish Embassy PM lunch [[note: Could refer to lunch with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain]] [[pencil underwriting]]4:30pm[[/pencil underwriting]] Noel Coward [[note: Noel Coward (1899-1973) was a popular British playwright, director, actor and entertainer. In 1942 he would produce and direct the film "In Which We Serve" which was a tribute to the British Navy]] 5:00pm Sumner Welles [[Sumner Welles (1892-1961) was US under secretary of State in 1940. FDR sent him to Italy, Germany and England in February and March of 1940 to discuss peace proposals.]] 7:00pm Minister10:00pm U.P. Meeting

3/13/1940 1:30pm Mr. Mann to lunch, Lippmann MC 5:00 pm 5:30pm 6:00pm Minister 8:30 [illegible] [/illegible] Dinner (I.L. next to S.W.). 6:00pm 10 . [Cultivator?]

3/14/1940 Col & Mrs Lister for lunch 1:30pm [Dr Colyn?] 5:30pm UP meeting 5.30pm Lord Ebbesham 8:15pm Other Club

3/15/1940 Chinese Ambassador to lunch 5:00pm MC I?) 7:00pm Sir J Gilmour [[note: Could refer to Sir John Gilmour (1876-1940) minister of shipping who died on March 30.]] 8:30pm Dine at Stanleys'

3/16/1940 10:30am Cabinet 12:00noon 5 SL

3/18/1940 4:30pm Col Fred. [Palmer?] 5:00pm Military Co-ordination 8:00pm Dine with H.M. [[note: H.M. could refer to King George VI (1895-1952)]] Dine [illegible] Lord & Lady Halifax 8:30

3/19/1940 I.S.L. & Admiral ? Blake to lunch 5:30pm Adml. Pridham-Wippell. 7:00pm American Ambassador. [[note: Joseph P. Kennedy, 1888-1969, also father of President John F, Kennedy]] Dine with Lord & Lady Halifax.

3/20/1940 5:00pm Danish N.A. [[Note: N.A. could refer to Naval Attache]] 5:15pm Mr. Corbin, Sir T O'Connor 6:00pm Cultwater [[Note: Need to check this name; it has appeared earlier in March 1940]] 10:30pm Campbell

3/21/1940 Sir R. & Lady Vansittart to lunch 5:00pm DA/SW 5:30pm Genl Spiers 6:00pmSalvage.

3/22/1940 Good Friday I. L. [Duty?] 8:30pm Sir J. [Grigg?] dinner

3/23/1940 I.L. [Duty?] 1:00pm. See Special Entry candidate.

3/25/1940 Easter Monday I.L. [Duty?]

3/26/1940 Cab. [(Zellerenerstein)?] [[pencil underwriting]] [Sarrow?] [[/pencil underwriting]] Barrow

3/27/1940 Mr & Mrs C lunch with Lord Lloyd 11:00am 10:50amCabinet 5:00pm Assheaton 5.15pm Mr Harrap 5:30pm PM [[Note: could refer to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain]] 6:15pm Mr Harrap 6:30pm Eden 6:30pm Stein 7:00pm Hopkas

3/28/1940 1:15pm for 1:30pm Carlton Hotel

3/29/1940 10:00am Mr Harrap. 11:30am Full Cabinet Sir Emsley & Lady Carr to lunch 5:00pm Mr [Crozier?] [[note: Check spelling of this name with that of Manchester Guardian reporter who is listed earlier in March.]] 6. R.M. meeting 8.30 Mr Duff Cooper & Lady Diana to dinner

3/30/1940 9:20pm Broadcast

3/31/1940 6:00pm Mrs McCormick (?)
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4/1/1940 6:30am A.A M. meeting (Upper War Room) 5:00pm. Mrs McCormick 5:15pm Lithgow 6:00pm Adml Stuart

4/2/1940 1:30pm Sir E Marsh, Sir Bede & Lady Clifford to lunch 5:00pm Ministerial Privates - First Lord's Room, H of C 6:30pm Tizard 7:15pm Sir J Reith [[Note: Sir John Reith (1889-1971) director-general of the BBC]] A.H. dinner

4/3/1940 10:00am General Spears 10:30am Cabinet 1:00pm Solicitor General 4:30pm Coultwater 5:00pm Spears 5:00pm Sir A Skein 5:30pm War Coordinator 8:30pm Dine with Mrs. Montague Savoy 8.30 [[note: Savoy Hotel, London, UK]] 6:00pm A.G.R.M & Civil Lord

4/4/1940 1:45pm Cabinet . Gen Ismay after Cabinet 1:00pm Warrender 1:30pm Sir James & Lady Hawkey to lunch 5:00pm. Denison 8:15pm Other Club

4/5/1940 1:30pm Sir John Reith lunch U.P. Trials (provisional)

4/7/1940 11:00 am PM [[Note: PM could refer to British prime minister Neville Chamberlain]] 6:00pm Bridges 8:45pm Sir K. Wood to dine Ismay [[note: Sir Lionel Hastings, Baron Ismay, Churchill's military assistant. His nickname was "Pug"]]

4/8/1940 11-00amBeaton-Board Room 4:50pm Lord Lloyd 5:00pm. Military Coordinator 8:30pm Dine with Sir S. Hoare [[note: Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood]]

4/9/1940 [cut off] Imperial [Cabinet/] House 10:30m CabinetLunch Lord McGowan Imperial [Cabinet/] House [cut off] [[note: It looks as if this meeting was put in the time slot allotted to lunch above]] 4:30pm Bohemian 5:00pm M. Tilea 5:15pm Drawbell. [[note: possibly James Wedgwood Drawbell]] 8:30 Dine with Duke & Duchess of Devonshire Black tie 9:30 Richmond [Terr?].

4/10/1940 To lunch- Sir John Reith? 5 :00pm [Cultwater?] [Gibralter?] 6:00pm Mr Wood. 7:30pm Attlee [[note: Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Lord Attlee, Leader of the Labour Party, member of the Br. coalition government during WWII; became prime minister in 1945]] 8:30pm Dinner to F[oreign] O[ffice] representatives (black tie)

4/11/1940 11.00am Cabinet 5:00pm American MA (General Miles) [[note: M. A. could refer to military attache]] Air Ministry Meeting 6:30pm MC

4/12/1940 11:30am Cabinet 4:00pm Cabinet (?) 5:30pm MC

4/13/1940 11:30am Duty Cabinet 5:00pm M.C.

4/14/1940 11:30am Cabinet Broadcast 4:30pm MC

4/15/1940 Lindemann Lady [Reading?] [Conrad?] (?) 11:00am Cabinet 5:00pm No 10 D.S. [[note: No 10 could be a reference to the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street]] 5:30pm M.C. 7:00 [illegible] [Holland?] 8:15pm S of S, CIGS, DCNS dinner Dine Lord Portal

4/16/1940 11:30am Cabinet 4:45pm Admiral Clarke 5:00[m Tommy 5:00 HM [[note: HM could refer to His Majesty King George VI]] 5:30pm Balkan Ministers 5:00pm (H of C) 9:45pm Mr. Wood of [Harrod's/]

4/17/1940 10:00am M.C. 10:00am Downing St. [[note: could be a reference to prime minister's residence 10 Downing Street]] 11:30am Cab. [Cabinet] 5:00pm Palace [[note: could be a reference to Buckingham Palace, home of King George VI]]6:30pm M.C. 6:30pm Sir A Stern 6:45pm Bevin 7:00pm P.M. [[note: P.M. could be a reference to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

4/18/1940 10:00am M.C. 1.30pm Lunch Hillgarth Selby 5:00pm ACNS(A) 8:00pm Admiralty Dinner 10:30pm NA(S)

4/20/1940 10:30am Cabinet 1:30pm Lunch to Lord Salisbury.5:00pm Home Secretary 6:30pm M.C.

4/21/1940 4.30pm Cabinet M.C. meeting after Cabinet 9:30pm M.C. Upper War Room

4/22/1940 Lunch w Eden 5:00pm Cabinet

4/23/1940 9:30 10:00pm M.C.

4/24/1940 11:00am Cabinet 5:00 Adml [illegible] cancelled 5:30pm Duke of Kent [[note: Prince George, Duke of Kent, younger brother of King George VI]] 7:00pm M.C.C. No. 10 9:30pm P.M. at No. 10 [[note: refers to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain]]

4/25/1940 11:30am Cabinet 1:30pm Mr Rogers to lunch (Canadian Minister of Defense). 5:00pm [4 illegible words] 5:00pm Mr. Meyer & interpreter 8:15pm Other Club

4/26/1940 ? 10:00am M.C.C. 4:45pm Commander Job (Argentine Naval + Air AttachÃ©) 5:00pm M. Tilea (Roumanian Minister)

4/27/1940 10:30am? Cabinet 11:00pm Lord Birkenhead & Mr. Deakin

4/28/1940 10:00am Sir R [oger] Keyes

4/30/1940 [[note: part of the entry for April 29, 1940 appears here but there was no entry listed for that date. The visible entries for that date are as follows: 5:30 pm Admiral [Kayrick?] 5:25 pm Admiral Sir Howard Kelly Entries for April 30, 1940 10:00am K. A. [illegible] 1:30pm Sir A Wilson to lunch ? Mr. Lloyd George to lunch [two words illegible 5:30pm Captain Diggle. 6:30pm Sir P. [Lorraine?] 10:00pm General Ismay
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7/1/1940 11:30amWar Cabinet 11.30 am Lunch Mr D Cooper & Lady Cooper, Lord Lloyd, Mr Bracken Cabinet 6 pm Dine C.I.G.S. 10:00 1st Lord & 1st Sea Lord. 10:30pm C.A.S. 11:00pm Prof L. [[note: possibly a reference to Frederick A. Lindemann, WSC's science advisor]]

7/2/1940 12:00 Cabinet Lunch General Bourne. Mr Deakin. Major Cazalet.

7/3/1940 11:40pm Lord Halifax 12:.00noon Cabinet 6:30pm King

7/4/1940 11:30am Cabinet 1:30pm Lady Gwendoline Miss Clarissa to lunch. [note: Lady Gwendoline Spencer-Churchill was WSC's sister-in-law; Clarissa Spencer Churchill was his niece and the future wife of Anthony Eden]] 8.30pm dine with Mr. Chamberlain at No 11.

7/5/1940 11:30am C.O.S. 12:00noon Cabinet Lord Beaverbrook to Lunch L: Sir A. Sinclair 5:20? 5:00pm Ministers [not?] [met?] in War Cabinet 5:45pm Lord Lloyd. 6:45pm Lord Halifax 7:15pm Mr Ian Colvin. 8.30pm Lord Beaverbrook to dine. 10:30pm [illegible] 11:30pm [Philip?]

7/6/1940 10:00am Cabinet Start for [Linb? field]

7/7/1940 1:00pm Lord [Conipadan ?] to lunch (& Lord Beaverbrook) 7:00pm Cabinet

7/8/1940 11:30pm Cabinet 1:30pm Lord Woolton to lunch, Lord Halifax H. E. Belgian Ambassador, & Mons. de Vleeschaucoer. 5:00pm Supply (Aircraft Production) 7:00pm6:30pm I. L. & I. S. L. (Mining) 8.30pm Maj. Gen & Mrs. Greyberg [ ? Greybery ?] to dine.

7/9/1940 12:00 Cabinet 1:30 Mr. Lees Smith to lunch, Lady Colefax, Lord Simon, Mlle. Eve Curie & Ernest Bevin 4:45 [Exfed?] with Lord Beaverbrook & [illegible] Sinclair ? King 7:30 C.O.S.

7/10/1940 12:00noon Cabinet 1:30pm Lord & Lady Camrose to lunch, + Major Morton 6:00pm Lord Dillon 6:15pm Admiralty 7:00pm H.M. [[note: could be a reference to His Majesty King George VI]] 7:45pm Mr Attlee 8:30pm Service Ministers to dinner

7/11/1940 11:00am Cabinet 12:30pm 2:00pm visit to S.E. Coast:30pm 1:00pm Sir Alfred & Lady Beit to lunch Sir Archibald & Lady Sinclair & Mde.Tabouis [[note: Mde. may be abbreviation for Mademoiselle] General Ismay [illegible] p.m. 3 [3 words illegible]10:30pm Sir A. Sinclair 11:00pm Lord Lloyd

7/12/1940 11:15am Lord President 11:30am Cabinet 1:30pm Lady Violet Bonham-Carter to lunch 4:45pm Sir. A. Sinclair Genl. Auchinleck, Paget & Ismay, dinner & sleep Chequers

7/14/1940 4:30pm Halton Camp

7/15/1940 11:00am. Defence Committee (Supply) 12:00noon Cabinet 5:30p-m Meeting of Ministers at Adty 6:30pm V. G. P. S. Meeting in Admiralty 10:30pm Mr Greenwood & Sir A. Salto

7/16/1940 11:00am. Defence Cttee. (Supply) 12:30pm CABINET To Lunch:- 1:30pm {Lord & Lady Bessborough,Mr. Oliver & Lady Maureen Stanley. Mr. E. Mowrer. 5:00pm Conference on U. P. & Fuses. 6:00pm King 6:30pm Sir R. Keyes 6:45pm Col Menzies 7:15pm Norwegian Ministers. 7:45pm 10:30pmLd Swinton

7/17/1940 S. Coast

7/18/1940 11:15am Mr Dewar, Sir James Hawkey 11:30pm Cabinet Lunch 1:30pm { Lord & Lady Winterton, Mr. & Mrs. Amery, Sir. Edward Bridges, Sir Auchland Geddes} 6:15pm 5:30pm Meeting with [3 or 4 words illegible] Mr. Eden 7:30pm Norwegian Ministers. 8:30pm Service Ministers 9:30pm [Hawkey?]

7/19/1940 10:00am Supply meeting (tanks) 10, Downing Street. 11:00am Home Defence Meeting. U.W.R., Admiralty. 12:30pm Cabinet 3:00pm Mr. Eden 4:15pm Lord Horne 4:30pm Leave 5:00pm Aircraft [display?]

7/20/1940 Chequers

7/21/1940 Chequers 7:00pm Cabinet

7/22/1940 11:30am Cabinet 1:15pm Chief Whip 1:30pm General De Gaulle to lunch 2:30pm Lord Beaverbrook 4:45pm Mr. Eden 5:00pm Meeting at No. 10, I.L, I.S.L. 3 S.L. CIGS, S of Sp, C.A.S., Ismay. 6:30pm Defence Committee (supply) 7:30pm Lord Lloyd 8:30pm General Brook to dinner 10:30pm Lord Beaverbrook & C.A.S.

7/23/1940 4:30pm Meeting at Admiralty 11:30am Cabinet 1:30pm Mr Bevis, Mr & Mrs Garvin to lunch 6:00pm King 6:30pm King Defence (Supply) Committee 8:30pm Dine with Admiral Evans King and Crown Prince Norway

7/24/1940 Inspecting in U.W.R. 11:15 12:00 noon Lord Halifax 11:30pm I.L., I.L.L., S.C.N.S, Keyes 12:30pm Cabinet 12:45pm Depart [illegible] 9:45pm Arrive St Pancras

7/25/1940 11:30am Cabinet 1:30pm Gen. de Gaulle to lunch, Lord Ivor Churchill 3:45pm L. Halifax 5:00pm Chancellor Exchequer - Lord [Wood?] 5:30pm Colonel Donovan [[note: Colonel Donovan could refer to William J. Donovan, the future head of the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner to the CIA]] 5:45pm Chinese Ambassador 6:00pm Meeting, Exchange of Information [in?] U.S.A. 7:00pm Minister of Agriculture 8:30pm Eden, Dill, Lloyd, Ismay, Beaverbrook

7/26/1940 10:30am High Commissioners 11:30am[[pencil underwriting]] [illegible] UWR 11:30am 12:00noon Cabinet 1:30pm To lunch - Mr Wall, Mr Attlee, Lord Swinton, Major Morton 4:45pm Mr de Marjerie [illegible] , Mr Chamberlain 5:00pm Mr Crozier (Manchester Guardian) 5:15pm Mr Amery 5:30pm Mr de Marjerie 5:45pm Sir W Monckton

7/29/1940 11:30am Cabinet (C.W.R.) 1:30pm Mr Randolph to lunch 2:45pm Lord Beaverbrook 4:25pm 5:15pm Mr Butler 5:30pm Defence Committee No. 10 7:00pm The King 7:45pm Mr Eden 10:00pm Lord [Korder?] 11:15pm Mr Attlee & Mr Greenwood

7/30/1940 12:30pm Cabinet. 1:30pm. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Duke & Duchess of Devonshire, Lord Ivor Churchill 5:00pm ? The King 11:30pm Leave King's X [[note: King's X could refer to King's Cross Railway Station, London, UK]]

7/31/1940 5:00pm [illegible] [meeting?] 8:30pm. return
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8/1/1940 11.30 Cabinet 1.30 Sultan of Johore to lunch & Lord & Lady Desborough, Mr & Mrs Eden, Lady Forbes. 5.0 Archbishop of Canterbury. ? 5.30 Sir W. Citrine ? Dinner Pakenham-Walsh, P.J.C.

8/2/1940 12.30 Cabinet 1.30 Cardinal Huntley, Lord & Lady Lloyd, Lord & Lady W.S. Morrison 5.0 Food Meeting

8/3/1940 Lunch - Gen de Gaulle, Gen Shear Major Ro[illegible] Dinner - Lord Gorst, Sir Hugh Dowding, Prof. Linderman, Capt. Sandys

8/5/1940 11.30. Cabinet C. 1.30 Signature of Polish Agreet. Lunch - Gen. Sikorski. Mais Zalcoki. Capt. Cazalck. Lord Halifax 4.45 Lord Halifax 5.15. Sir H. Wil[[ilegible]] 6.0 Sir A. Sinclair 10.30 Sir. R. Keyes

8/6/1940 10.3 a.m. Defense Committee (Supply) 12. {[blacked out]] Cabinet 1.30 L(?) Deakin to lunch (/).30 speaker - H. Of. c. 4. I.S.L. {[faint pencil]] 5.0 Gen. S. E. Crankshaw (?) pm ? To Chartwell 6.30 King 7.0 Defence C (Supply) 7.45 . . 8.0 Lord Beaverbrook

8/7/1940 9 A.M. Start from Downing St. 7.20 P. M. Arrive back H. {[faint pencil]] 10.30 Genl de Gaulle 11.0 C.O.S. 7 Ismay

8/8/1940 11.30 Cabinet 1.30 Dr Benes to lunch 5.0 strikeout Gen Wavell

8/9/1940 12.30 Cabinet Chequers Dine & Sleep: Sir J Dill, Mr Eden, General Wavell

8/10/1940 Chequers Dine & Sleep: General Finlayson, General Pownell, Colonel Jacob

8/11/1940 Chequers Dine. LD Beaverbrook Dine and Sleep: M. Bevin

8/12/1940 12.30 Cabinet 1.30 Mr Whitelaw Reid, G.O.C. London District 2.45 Lord President 5.30 Meeting of Ministers 10.0 Sir J. Dill, Mr. Eden, Generall Wavell, Gen Ismay

8/13/1940 10.15 Defence (Training of Pilots) 12.00 Cabinet Lunch Buckingham Palace To Lunch Mr Whitelaw Reid 6.00 5.30 Mr Eden CIGS, General Wavell 7.00 HM 7.45 1st Lord

8/14/1940 10.30 [b. ?] c. (op) 11.30 Ch. Whip 11.45 Ld Caldecote 12.15 Ld Halifax [duplicated] 12.30 Cabinet 4.30 American Ambassador 4.50 strikeout Sir J. Anderson 5.0 Admiralty War Room 6.30 Cabinet 9.30 Ld Halifax & Ld Caldecote

8/15/1940 12.00 Cabinet 5.00 5.30 Lord Beaverbrook, Mr Bevin, Mr Morrison, Mr Alexander

8/16/1940 10.10 Sir A Sinclair 12.00 Mr Morrison, Dr Crowe 12.30 Cabinet To Lunch Duke & Duchess of Marlborough, Sir J & Lady Hawkey 2.40 AM review [illegible] 4.30 5.00 Mr Eden, CIGS, General Ismay Lord Lloyd to Dine & Sleep

8/17/1940 Air Marshall Pontac dine sleep Sir Alan Brooke " " & sleep [illegible] & Mrs Sandys " "

8/18/1940 Lunch - Ld & Lady Halifax, Gen. de Gaulle, Gen Spears, Major Morton. Lunch - Ld & Lady [Fesborough ?] [illegible] Cancelled

8/19/1940 11.30 Cabinet 1.30 Mr. Tom Johnston to lunch 5.30. Chancellor of Exchequer. { Sir K. Wood { Mr. Eden to dine

8/20/1940 11:45 Cabinet 12:30 Westminster Abbey (Memorial [illegible] Service-Australian Minister)

8/21/1940 12.30 Cabinet Lord Beaverbrook to lunch 4.30 Sir A Sinclair

8/23/1940 10.0 RAF Pilots Meeting 11.30 Cabinet 4.45 Sir Walter Citrine 5.0 Lord Hore Belisha 5.30 Lord [illegible]

8/26/1940 12 30 Cabinet 1.30 Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. Dawson, Sir [illegible] w Lunch 5.30 Mr. Morrison 6.30 Belgian Ministers 10.0 I of J, in Air & A/M [Courtenay?]

8/27/1940 12.0 Sir A. Sinclair 12.30 [illegible] 5.0. The King 6.0 Col. Gretton 6.30. L.P.S. w. Duff Cooper, Mr. Pick.

8/28/1940 10:30 Leave. 6:00 Admiral Cunningham, Sen Frasier

8/29/1940 11:30 Chans of Exchequer 12 Cabinet 1:30 Gen De Gaulle, Gen Shearer, Adm, Cunningham, Gen India, Major Morton, 15 lunch 5:00 Cabinet 6 Cap. Margesson, 6:15 American Amb, 6:#0 Lord Swinton

8/30/1940 11:30 Cabinet 1:30 C.L.G.S. (lunch) 5:15 Sir A Sinclair 5:45 Genl Barker
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11/1/1940 12. Cabinet CWR.

11/4/1940 11.30 C.W.R. strikeout Tank Meeting 1.15 Lord Beaverbrook to lunch 4.45 Colonel [Cohiller ?] - No.10 5.0 Cabinet C.W.R. 6.15 Brigadier Menzies

11/5/1940 5 Cab 5:30 Defense Comm et CW R. 8:30 (Barn) Sir A Duncan. Prof L

11/6/1940 11.45 [Statement ?] 12.0 Cabinet - House of Commons 3.0 House of Commons

11/7/1940 Lunch with Sir Henry Strakosch (Claridges 1.30) 4.45 (No 10) Prince Bernhard 8.15 pm Other Club

11/8/1940 11.30 (No.10) Cab.

11/9/1940 1.0 Speech -- Lord Mayors Luncheon.

11/10/1940 1:30 Lunch Che[illegible] Lord [two words illegible]

11/11/1940 12. Night Air Defence.

11/12/1940 5.00 Cabinet CWR

11/13/1940 strikeout 11.30 Cabinet 1.15 Luncheon with Sir A. & Lady Sinclair - Air Ministry 2.30 Speech at Nat. Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. 5.0 [Halifax ?] C.W.R. 9.45 [Capt Prince Minsiter ?]

11/14/1940 ? No Cabinet [[pencil underwriting]] 11.15 [[/pencil underwriting]] 11.15 CWC Fighter Command 2.45 Lord Halifax 3.00 Mr Atlee [illegible]

11/18/1940 To Dine - Sir K. Wood 9.30 Meeting with 1st Lord ???.

11/19/1940 10. a.m. Mr. Hopkinson illegible 11.30 . Cabinet - New House of Commons Lunch - The King 5.0 . Night Air Defence

11/20/1940 10.00 Mr Cecil Beaton 11.30 Cabinet at House 12.45 Sherry 4.45 (No. 10) Greek Minister 5.00 (No. 10) Lord Halifax

11/21/1940 11.0. of Parliament 12.15 1.15 luncheon 3.0 Cabinet

11/25/1940 1.30 Ld Beaverbrook, Mr Littleton to lunch 2.45 General de Gaulle 3.30 Lord Southwood 4.0 Mr Duff Cooper 5.0 Cabinet 9,30 Defense Ctee C.W.R.

11/26/1940 10 am Mr. Malon 12.0 Cabinet (H of C) 1.00 Lunch

11/27/1940 10.30 Mr. Purvis 1.00 Cabinet, House of Commons (lightly crossed out in blue) 1.30 Times (crossed out) ?????? 5. CWR

11/28/1940 12.0 Cabinet 1.30 Lunch with Major Alton and his 3.0 DC(s) - Tanks
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12/2/1940 5.0 Night Air Defense Cabinet Mr. Eden to dinner

12/3/1940 10.0 am Sir Charles Wilson 10.30 Mr. Atlee and Chief Whip 12.0 Chiefs of Staff and D.C.O. 9 CWR (Defese Committee) (all crossed out)

12/4/1940 Lord Kemsley, Lord Beaverbrook to lunch 5.00 Cabinet [[pencil underwriting]] 9.30 [[/pencil underwriting]] 9.00 (CWR) - Defence Committee

12/5/1940 12. Cabinet (House of Commons) C,OS. 12 noon 1.15 Lunch at Spanish Embassy 8.15 Other Club

12/6/1940 12 Cabinet

12/9/1940 11.30 Defence Meeting. C.W.R.

12/10/1940 12.0 Cabinet Church House 1.30 Lunch with the King 3.0 Lord Cranborne & [illegible] Andrews to dinner

12/11/1940 1.15 Colonel [Ralefan ?] to lunch. strikeout 6.0 Defence Committee, CWR. 8.0 Mr Macdonald & Mr Morrison to dine.

12/12/1940 11.30 Cabinet 1.10. 1.30 Prince Bernhard and M. [Dr.] Gerbrandy to lunch. 3 Mr. Purvis 3.30 Lord Halifax

12/13/1940 Mr. Justice Singleton to lunch [illegible] Sir R. Keys } } dine and sleep Admiral Philips }

12/14/1940 General De Gaulle to lunch General Alexander Dine and Sleep.

12/15/1940 Mr Justice Singleton and Professor to lunch Mr Eden dine and sleep

12/16/1940 12.45 Lord Halifax 1.30 Mr. Lloyd George to lunch 5.0 Cabinet CWR 9.30. CWR. Service M in C of C. O. L.

12/17/1940 12:30 Cabinet [two words illegible] 1:30 Lord Beaverbrook to lunch. no. 10 5.0. [two words illegible]. P.M. speaks. C.W.R

12/18/1940 10.30 a.m. (No. 10) Mr Ralston 11. Mr Robertson 11.30 a.m. Defense Committee (Supply) - No 10. Concert at Harrow 3.30

12/19/1940 12.15 Cabinet, ?Vaken ??, Lord . Attlee. StatementConcert at Harrow 3.30 ? 4.0 The King

12/23/1940 12:30 Cabinet 1:30 Lunch with King 9.0 Broadcast [CWR?] [WR?]

12/27/1940 Cabinet 12. noon. [illegible] 1.30 Ld Beaverbrook, Prof L. [Ct. Wayerine ?], Sir R. Dennison Mr O. Stanley 3.30

12/28/1940 10.30 Chiefs of Staff (No 10) 2.45 ?? Eden 3.0 ?? ineligible

12/30/1940 11.45 Cabinet strikeout 4.45 - Lord Lloyd 5. Mr Greenwood 5.30 Chancellor of Exchequer

12/31/1940 12.30 Cabinet 445 Sir R. Keyes 5.0 W. Morrison
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