Letters to Mary from Charles

Scope and Content

Concerning World War I and it's handling in Parliament, progress of the war in Europe and intermittent rumours of peace talks, Charles' activities on behalf of the Union of Democratic Control (UDC), including speeches and forming local branches in Merthyr Tydfil, Oxford, Sunderland, Liverpool, Glasgow, and other activities of the UDC including meetings in Newcastle, Birmingham, Newport, the Rhondda Valley, and meeting of the General Council, George Macaulay Trevelayn's views on the war, including impression of America following a trip, the announcement of the wartime coalition government, views of Parliamentary activity including conscription and the Registration Bill, Ireland, the campaign in Salonika and Serbia, and Charles delivering a major speech, and views on public figures including Asquith, David Lloyd-George, John Morley, Richard Holt, Charles Cripps (1st Baron Parmoor), Edward Grey, Israel Zangwill, Edward Hilton Young, Bonar Law, news on selected friends and relatives including George Macaulay and Geoffrey Winthrop Young travelling to Italy with the Friends' Ambulance Unit, Basil Williams, and some comment on meetings with soldiers in England.

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