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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)
Autograph letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), to "My dear Northcliffe", making arrangements to meet him for a walk, Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., 11 May 1908

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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)

Autograph letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), to "My dear Northcliffe", making arrangements to meet him for a walk, ("...Pick me up at 12 Bolton Street, at what time you like..."), 1 page, 8vo, Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., 11 May 1908

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CHURCHILL ARRANGES TO MEET PRESS BARON TWO DAYS AFTER HIS ELECTION TO PARLIAMENT FOR DUNDEE -- here meeting newspaper proprietor Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe under the auspices of his position as President of the Board of Trade, a position he had been given by Asquith a month earlier. The men had a turbulent relationship. In 1907 Churchill made a speech attacking Northcliffe and his newspapers:; 'A mischief-making Press, eavesdropping, misrepresenting, dealing in word-pictures and dissolving news...' (Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, 1964, Vol. II, p.218) and later blamed Northcliffe's newspapers for his defeat in the Manchester by-election in April 1908. It was, he said, 'dictated by the millionaire proprietors who were rewarded by peerages for their privileges' (op. cit.). By the time this letter was written, Northcliffe owned the Daily Mail, The Illustrated Daily Mirror, the Observer and had just acquired the Times in March 1908.

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