CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Large photograph signed (‘Winston S. Churchill’), co-signed by 43 others including Anthony Eden, Jan Smuts, Lord Beaverbrook and Clement Attlee, [London], [May 1944].

Photograph by Bassano (signed at lower edge), 325 x 580mm including mount, signatures on left, lower and right of the mount (thumbing to white edges of the print). Framed (495 x 780mm).

Winston Churchill at the wartime meeting of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers. The 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference, hosted by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill between 1 and 16 May, brought together the heads of government from all the Dominions except Ireland and Newfoundland – it was the first in a series of 17 such conferences which took place between 1944 and 1969 and arguably the most significant, having been convened in order to coordinate the Allied war effort. At the 1944 Conference, the assembled leaders agreed to support the Moscow Declaration and the Commonwealth contribution to the upcoming Operation Overlord was discussed. Among the international leaders whose signatures appear here are: the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts, Lord Privy Seal Lord Beaverbrook, Indian Prime Minister Hari Singh and Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

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