Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1931 - 1965 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Correspondence, mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'W' also including Brig Michael Wardell, 1946 relating to his invention of the 'land mattress', a multiple 30 tube 3-inch rocket launcher, and his return to journalism; FM Henry Maitland Wilson (and others), 1945 relating to Wilson's request for information on security problems in post-occupational Germany for a proposed speech, with notes prepared by Brig E A L Gueterbock (7pp) for Wilson's use and letter from the Foreign Office requesting that Wilson should not give the talk; FM Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson of Libya, 1946 relating to proposed book on the Middle East by Lady Ranfurly and opposition to this from M W (Reader) Bullard, with letter from Ismay relating to restrictions on using information obtained in an official capacity and an extract from Parliamentary debates (Hansard), House of Commons 31 Jul 1946 (HMSO, London, 1946) entitled 'Ex-ministers writings (Government policy); V Adm Norman Atherton Wodehouse, 1938 relating to his resignation over Portuguese policy. 1 file