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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)NCLAdd/88
TitleLetter from Neville Chamberlain to Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich
Extent1 item
Date1935
DescriptionPhotocopy of letter, dated 23 November, in which Chamberlain, 37 Eaton Square [London], writes to express his regret at Duff [1890-1954] leaving the Treasury but also his pleasure at his becoming head of a Department. Chamberlain comments that 'it is by what a man is in Cabinet, rather than by what he is as a Departmental Chief that ministers are ultimately weighed and assessed'.

Duff Cooper was in the Treasury, 1934-1935 and Secretary for War, 1935-1937.
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