Government Document

Letter from Admiral Drax to Admiral Lord Chatfield

Drax, Admiral

1939

Overview

Letter to Lord Chatfield commenting on progress of negotiations: tabulates demands of Soviet Government and expresses view that unless there is sudden change in attitude of Soviet Government agreement on many points may take months to achieve: considerable improvement may take place if replies from Poland and Roumania definitely favourable.

• Publisher: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Subject: 1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, 1939-43 / Burckhardt, Professor C. J. (League of Nations High Commissioner at Danzig) / Burnett, Air Marshal Sir Charles (a member of British Military Mission to Moscow) / Cadogan, Sir Alexander (Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Jan. 1938-Feb. 1946) / Cambon, Roger (Minister Counsellor, French Embassy at London: acted as Chargé d'Affaires) / Doumenc, General (Head of French Military Delegation to Moscow, Aug. 1939) / Drax, Admiral Sir Reginald A. R. Plunkett-Ernle-Erle- (Head of British Military Delegation to Moscow, 1939) / Forster, Albert (Nazi Gauleiter of Danzig) / Heywood, Major-General T. G. G. (a member of British Military Delegation to Moscow, Aug. 1939) / Lansdale, Captain R. S. (Staff Officer to Admiral Drax during his mission to Moscow, Aug. 1939) / Pound, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley (British Commander-in Chief, Mediterranean, 1936-9 / Usborne, Vice-Admiral C. V