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Level	Item
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)	NCLAdd/154
Title	Letter from Neville Chamberlain to Malcolm Dillon
Extent	1 item
Date	1938
Description	Letter, dated 10 November, in which Chamberlain, 10 Downing Street [London], replies to Dillon's letter of 7 November which was probably written in the context of Chamberlain's visit to Germany in late September 1938. It is the reference to a much earlier visit to Berlin [to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 at the end of the Russo-Turkish war] by Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury [representing the British Government in their capacity as Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] which suggests this context. Chamberlain is interested to learn that Dillon was in Downing Street when Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury returned then from Berlin. 'It seems almost incredible'.
Access Status	Open
Administrative History	Malcolm Dillon (1859-1945) MBE, was managing director of the Londonderry Collieries Ltd, and director of other companies in the north of England. He had been mayor of Jarrow 1903-1906, was a member of Durham County Council and Chairman of Seaham Unionist Association

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