British Diplomacy with America and Ireland, an Ambassador's Letters, 1909-1962 - Volumes
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Correspondence for 1937-1943
These letters cover the period leading up to the outbreak of war in September 1939 and the eventual US entry into the war in December 1941. It opens with Walter Runciman's visit to Washington beginning on 23 January 1937. There was some publicity about the visit but the official story was that he was staying with relatives and might also be seeing the President. Roosevelt and Runciman had a wide-ranging... Read more →
Correspondence for 1944-1948
During the War, and the immediate post-war period that saw the onset of the Cold War, Murray continued to correspond with friends and colleagues from earlier years such as William Wiseman. Murray wrote to Franklin Roosevelt in August 1944, following the liberation of Paris from German occupation. He and his wife had met Roosevelt's mother in October 1937 in Paris, at about the time that the President made his "quarantine... Read more →
Correspondence for 1949-1953
Murray's correspondence in this period was dominated by friends and memories from the Roosevelt era. In June 1949 he sent Mackenzie King a congratulatory telegram following the recent Liberal victory in the Canadian general election under Mackenzie King's hand-picked successor, Louis St Laurent: "Result of election is a great personal triumph for you as well as for your eminent successor" (Murray to Mackenzie King, 27 June 1949). Murray wrote again... Read more →
Correspondence for 1954-1962
Murray, now the 3rd Viscount Elibank, continued to correspond with Eleanor Roosevelt in his final years. Writing to her in March 1954, he said: "I much wish you were about to take your accustomed seat on the sofa in my sitting-room". He also commented on the divisions in the Republican Party over the excesses of "McCarthyism" and Eisenhower's failure, as Murray put it, "to defend that great soldier-statesman, General George... Read more →
