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ISMAY
(Hastings Lionel 'Pug', 1st Baron, 1887-1965, General, Chief of Staff to Churchill)
Autograph Letter Signed Pug to 'Ava dearest', Lady WAVERLEY
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) thanking her for her letter Great minds think alike, as you and... I came to the simultaneous conclusion that I ought to get into touch with her, without delay. I have done so, and we are motoring to London tomorrow and looking at Chartwell next day. It is not yet decided whether I am to have an operation... I am so much much better as the result of having a badly poisoned tooth pulled out, but I am going to plead very hard to be left alone... hoping she will visit them in Paris, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, Wormington Grange, Broadway headed paper, 8th August postmarked
Item Date: 1955
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Background
Ismay was a politician, diplomat and general in the British Indian Army who was the first secretary general of NATO. He also was Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War. He was Lord Mountbatten's chief of staff when he was Viceroy of India and helped preside over the transition to Independence. Ava was styled as Lady Anderson from 1941 until 1952. She was a political and social hostess at the centre of government during the Second World War. Winston Churchill noted her contact with gt. affairs. It was said that she had more indirect influence than any woman of her generation.
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