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Sir Maurice Hankey and the Inter-allied Mission to Poland, July–August 1920

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Norman Davies
Affiliation:
London School of Slavonic and East European Studies

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3 Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey (1877–1963), 1895 Royal Marine Artillery; 1902–8 Naval Intelligence Dept., Lt.-Colonel; 1908 Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1912–38 Secretary; 1916–38 Head of the Cabinet Secretariat; 1923–38 Secretary to the Privy Council; 1939–40 Minister without Portfolio.

4 See Hankey to Lloyd George Correspondence, Lloyd George papers P/23, 24, 25.

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18 Ibid. 23 July 1920. F/57/6/7.

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27 Ibid. 21 July 1920, F/57/6/5.

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29 Ibid. 25 July 1920, F/57/6/9.

30 The MSS copy is in F/57/6/13. The final condensed version is in the cabinet papers, CP 1724, Cab. 24/110. It also appears as D.B.F.P. (I), xi, no. 381.

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