Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/22 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, Feb-Sep 1919, on topics including the possibility of a war crimes trial for the former Kaiser, and Jean Hamilton's charitable activities

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the arrest and trial of Emile Jules Henri Cottin for the attempted assassination of Georges Clemenceau, French Prime Minister, 22 Feb-14 Mar; on a possible Allied tribunal to try Wilhelm II, ex-Kaiser of Germany, for war crimes, Mar-Jul; on Hamilton's refusal to accept the offer by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for War, of Northern Command, British Army, on the grounds of age, 19 Mar; on the unveiling of a memorial plaque to Rupert Chawner Brooke, poet, by Hamilton in Rugby School chapel, 28 Mar; on Hamilton as guest of honour at Gallipoli day commemorations in Bristol, 26 Apr; on dances and bazaars given by Lady Hamilton, in aid of the Paddington Children's Hotel and day nursery, May and Jul; on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 28 Jun. With menu card for a farewell dinner for Gen William Riddell Birdwood, London, July 1919; typescript of anonymous satirical poem, 'After morning prayer-quicunque vult'. 1 vol