Correspondence with The Admiralty

Scope and Content

Correspondence with the Admiralty, which includes:

Correspondence which was circulated to the editors of newspapers from the Admiralty, War Office and Press Committee on an agreement to, and arrangements for, suppressing the publication of news which is deemed against the public interest (GDN/A/A15/1-2).

Correspondence with A.W. Street, private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, relating to the provision of information clarifying a change in translation within an article by Captain Castex which first appeared in La Revue Maritime, and which is referred to in an article in the Manchester Guardian (GDN/A/A15/3).

Correspondence with G.S. Holden, Admiralty relating to information that a photograph of the H.M.S Warspite printed in the Manchester Guardian infringes upon the Official Secrets Act. Also included is an internal memorandum and a letter to Lord Riddall providing details of the incident, and its implications for the use of the Official Secrets Act.

Also included is correspondence relating to a request by W.P. Crozier to arrange a meeting with [A.V. Alexander], First Lord of the Admiralty.

GDN/A/A15/4 is a newspaper cutting of the photograph of the H.M.S. Warspite in Portsmouth, 1930.