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Catalogue of Seton-Watson Collection - SEW/14/1/1-SEW/14/1/4 piece descriptions
SEW/14/1/1 - Hungary, papers and correspondence (1939-1945)
Previous number: part of box 38
Content: papers and correspondence re Hungarian affairs in the Second World War. Most of the papers are unsigned but the authors are probably RWSW's colleagues at the Foreign and Research Press Service or Political Intelligence Department, including:
- Draft petition asking that the Political Intelligence Department set up a black propaganda radio station for Hungary
- "Hungary and Slovakia"
- Note on difficulty of determining the frontier between Hungary and Slovakia
- "The Hungarian press", report
- Note on Hungarians who would collaborate on pro-ally actions
- "Hungary", report on situation
- "The future of the Danubian states", address by Oscar Jászi (July 1939)
- "The position of Hungary", Foreign and Research Press Service memo (Sept 1939)
- Extract from letter re formation of Hungarian émigré army (Mar 1940)
- "The Polish-Czech-Hungarian triangle" (May 1940)
- "Hungary in January 1941"
- Report by Jaroslav Císař on broadcasts to Hungary by Macartney (Sept 1941)
- "Hungarian barometer: coming German collapse foreseen", by Jenő Kovács (?June 1943)
- "Hungary and her quislings", article in "New Europe" by Oscar Jászi (Oct 1943)
- Notes re discussion about Hungary (Jan 1944)
(Languages) English
1 folder
SEW/14/1/2 - Romania, papers (1939-1945)
Previous number: part of box 38
Content: papers re Romanian affairs in the Second World War, including:
- Notes (ms) on facts and chronology of Iron Guard Movement, by RWSW (Sept 1939)
- Text of speech by Iuliu Maniu (Jan 1940)
- "German influence in the Romanian press" (Jan 1940)
- Notes for a broadcast on Romania's National Day, by RWSW (May 1940)
- "Message to Rumania", text of broadcast by RWSW (Sept 1940)
- "Romanian Freedom Station", memo re progress (Oct 1940)
- "Notes on Colonel Mavrodi's memorandum" (July 1941)
- "Free Romanian Movement: our aims" (Dec 1941)
- "Problem of the Roumanian emigration in England", memo for Foreign and Research Press Service by RWSW (Dec 1941)
- "Romania's policy is dominated by the Russian problem" (Mar 1942)
- "Notes of conversations", conveying messages from Maniu to Tilea (Dec 1942)
- "Killinger's speech" (May 1943)
- "Extraits d'une lettre adressee par M. Jules Maniu au President Beneš a Londres, le 24 Janvier 1944"
- "Our foreign policy", memo by Viorel Tilea to RWSW (Mar 1943)
- "Excerpts from a statement made to the foreign press in Bucharest by Iuliu Maniu on September 21, 1945"
- "Our foreign policy", memo by Georges Tataresco, sent to RWSW by Tilea (Mar 1944)
- "Excerpts from a statement made to the foreign press in Bucharest by Iuliu Maniu on September 21 1945"
(Languages) English & French & Romanian
1 folder
SEW/14/1/3 - Romania, papers (circa) (1939-1945) (circa)
Previous number: part of box 38
Content: papers (mainly undated) by RWSW and otheres re Romanian affairs in the Second World War, including:
- "Note on the possible transfer of population between Roumania and Bulgaria", memo by RWSW
- Note considering why Russia should have allowed Germany to secure Romania's oil fields
- "Report on Roumania", by RWSW
- "The disintegration of Roumania"
- "Marshal Antonescu's peace feelers", article by Eugene Lennhoff (1943)
- "Notes on the situation in Roumania"
(Languages) English & French & Romanian
1 folder
SEW/14/1/4 - Romania, correspondence (1938-1944)
Previous number: part of box 38
Content: correspondence re Romanian affairs in the Second World War, including from V Cornea (1939-1941), D G Matescu of the Romanian Legation in London (1939-1943), David Mitrany (1941), RWSW's son Hugh Seton-Watson in Yugoslavia and Romania (1939-1940), Pavel Pavel (1941), J K Peel (1938-1943), Vesile Strica (1941) and Viorel Tilea (1941-1944)
(Languages) English & French
1 folder
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