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Ball, Chamberlain and Truth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

R. B. Cockett
R. B. Cockett
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Royal Holloway and Bedford new College, London
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The Historical Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 131 - 142
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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References

1 From the entry by Blake, Lord on Ball in the Dictionary of national biography, 1961 to 1970 (Oxford, 1981)Google Scholar.

2 For a discussion of Ball's possible involvement in the ‘Zinoviev Letter’ scandal, see Ramsden, John, The age of Baldwin and Balfour (London, 1978)Google Scholar.

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7 Information from Sir Samuel Hoare's interview with Sir Joseph Ball on 25 Dec 1951, Cambridge University Library, Templewood papers, XIX(B) 5.

8 University of Birmingham Library (UBL), Chamberlain MSS, 7/11/30/10, Sir Joseph Ball to Neville Chamberlain, 21 Feb. 1938.

9 Manchester Guardian, 24 Feb. 1938.

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11 Quoted by Koss, Stephen, The riseandfall of the political press in Britain, Vol. 2 (London, 1984), p. 551Google Scholar.

12 Churchill College Cambridge (CCC), Vansittart papers, II/32, ‘Report on Truth’, p. 9a.

13 CCC, Vansittart papers, II/32, ‘Report on Truth’, p. 13.

14 UBL, Chamberlain MSS, 18/1/108, Neville to Ida Chamberlain, 23 July 1939.

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16 Truth, 19 Jan. 1940.

17 Truth, 19 Oct. 1938.

18 CCC, Vansittart papers, II/31, ‘Obervations on the control of Truth’ Sept. 1941.

19 UBL, Chamberlain MSS, Neville to Ida Chamberlain, 23 Jul. 1939.

20 CCC, Vansittart papers, II/32, ‘Report on Truth’, p. 22.

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22 Truth, 29 Sept. 1939.

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30 Ibid. p. 38.

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