File CPT/1/2/13 - Letters to Charles relating to the work of the Union of Democratic Control (UDC)

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CPT/1/2/13

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Letters to Charles relating to the work of the Union of Democratic Control (UDC)

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  • 1915 (Creation)

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1 file correspondence

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Includes discussion of the operations of the UDC, reference to UDC publications, seizure of pamphlets from the National Labour Press in Manchester, discussion of potential converts to their goals, draft letters to newspapers, reference to Arthur Ponsonby's position as MP for Stirling Burghs, discussion of a publication discussing Ramsay MacDonald's parentage, response to Charles' speeches, reference to Norman Angell's work in the United States of America, minutes of UDC executive committee meetings and discussion of the disruption of meetings in London due to threats.
Correspondents include Arthur Ponsonby, J Ramsay MacDonald, W C Anderson [William Crawford?], E D Morel, William Robertson, Walter Runciman, G G Whiskard, Francis Johnson, F Seymour Cocks, Josiah C Wedgwood, J E Hodgkin, Henri Lambert, Leonard Courtney, Norman Angell, Philip Snowden, W H Ewes, John Parkes, Priscilla Albright, Harrison Barrow, A Fenner Brockway, C R Buxton, J Bruce Glasier, Sir Edward Grey, Charles Mallett, F Merttens, M Philips Price, A Robinson, Sir John Simon and Ella Scarlett Synge.
Also includes draft letters from Charles and Morel relating to the seizure and embargo of UDC pamphlets, and a letter to M Philips Price from Caroline Trevelyan.

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  • English

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CPT 76

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