Katharine Lindsell's List: Cold War

Catalogue ref: CAB 65/45
Extracts from the minutes of meetings of the British Cabinet on the question of the future of Poland. The minutes refer to meetings in January 1944.

Part of a Foreign Office report describing negative coverage of the USSR in the Chicago Tribune newspaper, April 6th 1943.

A poster produced by the British Ministry of Information in the second half of 1941. It shows Russian and Britain crushing Nazism, with the slogan "Fascism shall perish".

A poster from 1941 produced by the British government's Ministry of Information. The Russian caption translates as "Greetings to the heroic warrior of the Soviet Union from British allies fighting with him".

Catalogue ref: FO 371/37064
Handwritten notes on the cover of a report written by British officials in Moscow in December 1943. The report describes the positive coverage in the Soviet media to the Teheran Conference between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill in November 1943.

Catalogue ref: FO 371/37064
The Soviet newspaper Izvestiya describes the "firm alliance" between the leaders of the USA, Britain and the USSR and the "complete agreement" they reached at Teheran Conference in November 1943. The translation was by British officials and was put into a report sent back to the Foreign Office in London.

A poster produced by the Ministry of Information in May 1944, reporting "RAF smash German supplies bound for Russian front"

A poster produced the British Ministry of Information May 1944, reporting, "Allies fight throught with war weapons for the USSR."

Extracts from a War Cabinet meeting concerning convoys of supplies to the USSR, December 1942. It describes how " substantial quantities of low priority goods" are available but "neither the War Office nor the Air Ministry saw their way to make any substantial quantities of tanks and aircraft available".

Catalogue ref: FO 18/972/22
A telegram from the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to the British Embassy in Moscow, February 17th 1943. It refers to reports from the Soviet Ambassador that some Russians suspected that Britain "was not pulling its weight and devoting its full energies to the war against Germany".