W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

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• GDN/145/42/101-200
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Struma Struma The file contains materials relating to Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Singapore, Syria, Libya, Japan, Hungary, Madagascar, China, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Poland, Indian independence, and German naval operations. There are significant materials regarding the recruitment of Jews for military service in Palestine, the evacuation of children from Greece, diplomatic negotiations between Japan and the Pope, the situation of Jews in Slovakia and Iraq, responses to the disaster, negotiations of the post-war borders of Russia, and divisive debates within Free France. The fil...

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• GDN/145/42/201-300
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Struma The file contains materials concerning France, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Palestine, Italy, Germany, Libya, Madagascar, Egypt, Spain, and Japan. There are materials relating to recruitment of Jewish soldiers in Palestine, the impact of the disaster, morale of British soldiers, the negotiation of Russia's borders after the war, the exchange of wounded soldiers between Britain and Italy, Jewish refugees in Palestine, and the persecution of Jews in Slovakia. The file contains correspondence of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and reports about t...

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• GDN/145/42/301-400
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The file contains materials concerning, Russia, Turkey, Germany, Libya, Egypt, France, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. It includes correspondence concerning German losses in Russia, a potential German invasion of Palestine, the continuing refugee crisis in Palestine, the mobilisation of Jewish manpower in Palestine and calls for a Jewish army to defend Palestine, negotiations of the post-war Russian frontier, the Anglo-Soviet treaty of 1942, communist propaganda in Egypt, and home security press conference briefings concerning the Baedeker Blitz. The file contains an interview with Alfred Na...

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• GDN/145/42/401-500
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The file contains correspondence relating to Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Germany, Anglo-American relations, shipping convoy losses, Japan, and the possibility of a Japanese attack on Russia. The file also contains significant materials relating to Palestine, including the continuing arrival and internment of Jewish refugees, the defence of Palestine, the League for Jewish-Arab Rapproachment and Cooperation, and a report proposing a post-war settlement of the Jews in the Jordan river valley. The file also contains air raid and home security reports, a re...

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• GDN/145/42/501-24
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The file contains foreign correspondence primarily concerning the Middle East, including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, the recruitment of Jewish doctors for the British army, the treatment of enlisted Jewish soldiers and Jewish members of the Palestine Police Force, the movement of Jewish refugees to Cyprus, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, and shifting public opinion of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The file also contains a report on the Jewish populations of France, the Netherlands, and Poland, including demographic estimates. The file also contains an interview with Henr...

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• GDN/145/43/1-61
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The file contains correspondence relating to the Middle East, primarily Palestine. It contains materials concerning the defence of Palestine, plans for the post-war agricultural and industrial development of Palestine, negotiations for the prospective borders of a Jewish state, and reactions to the trials of Eliahu Sacharov, Abraham Rachlin, and Leib Sirkin, who were convicted of running a Jewish arms trade in Palestine. The file also contains materials concerning Lebanese elections and demographic estimates in Lebanon, continuing Jewish immigration to Palestine, Jewish deportees in Mauriti...

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• GDN/145/44/1-14
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This file contains correspondence concerning pogroms in Poland and the liquidation of concentration camps, negotiations for the post-war borders of Russia and Poland, and the transportation of Jewish refugees to Palestine. The file also contains a report on the British search of the Ramat HaKovesh kibbutz, an eyewitness account of public opinion in Germany, and debates about whether newspapers should publish stories about the successful escapes of prisoners of war at the risk of compromising similar escape attempts.