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Archive Collection description: DUF
Duff Cooper Collection (1938)
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890-1954), politician and
diplomat, served as War Minister 1935-1937 and First Lord of the
Admiralty 1937-1938. He resigned from the latter post in protest at the
Munich Agreement. The album in this collection was presented to Duff
Cooper in 1938 by a Czechoslovak school, Prof. Drtina Králové Girls'
Secondary School as a gesture of thanks for his support of Czechoslovakia.
After the outbreak of the Second World War he re-entered government,
serving as Minister of Information 1940-1941, Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster 1941-1943, representative to the French Committee of National
Liberation 1943-1944 and Ambassador to France 1944-1947.
Ref: "The New Encyclopedia Britannica"
Contents
Album entitled "With love from the Czecho-Slovakian Children", contains postcards and photographs of Czechoslovakia, emblems, postage stamps, pictures of national costumes and samples of embroidery.1938
1 album
(Language) Czech & English
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