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10 Ibid., Batterbee to MacDonald, 7 January 1938.
11 Ibid., minute by MacDonald, 21 January 1938; ibid., Malkin to Dixon, 11 January 1938; as part of the ongoing review process of internal files adopted by the DO, in 1957 the majority of files D28/6 to D28/20 contained within DO35/543, covering approximately one year of the memorandum's progress, were deemed to be of insufficient historical interest to merit not being destroyed; see Anne Thurston, Records of the Colonial Office, Dominions Office, Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office (London, 1995), pp. 62-4.
12 Garner, The Commonwealth Office, p. 94.
13 John A. Cross, Whitehall and the Commonwealth: British Departmental Organisation for Commonwealth Relations, 1900-1966 (London, 1967), p. 52; G. M. Carter, British Commonwealth and International Security (Toronto, 1947), pp. 300-2; MacDonald to Halifax, 10 April 1938, CAB123/246; MacDonald, 'Interview to the Oxford Colonial Records Project' (Rhodes House Library), p. 3.
14 R. A. C. Parker, Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War (London, 1993), pp. 156-82; Keith Middlemas, The Diplomacy of Illusion (London, 1972), pp. 21-3; Duncan Hall, Commonwealth (London, 1971), pp. 753-62; Middlemas, 'The Effect of Dominion Opinion on British Foreign Policy', Collected Seminar Papers on the Dominions between the Wars (Institute of Commonwealth Studies; October 1970-March 1971), pp. 51-4; Barnett, The Collapse of British Power, pp. 228-9; Holland, The Commonwealth Alliance, pp. 200-2; Ovendale, Appeasement and the English Speaking World, pp. 210-11; Michael Graham Fry, 'Agents and Structures: The Dominions and the Czechoslovak Crisis, September 1938', Diplomacy and Statecraft, (Vol. 10, Nos. 2 and 3; 1999); 'The Influence of the Commonwealth on British Foreign Policy: The Case of the Munich Crisis' in D. C. Watt, Personalities and Policies (London, 1965), pp. 162-3; Duncan Hall and Elliot, The Commonwealth in War and Peace, p. 13; The Earl of Halifax, Fullness of Days (London, 1957), pp. 197-8; Robert J. Beck, 'Munich's Lessons Reconsidered', International Security (Vol. 14, No. 2; Autumn, 1989), pp. 161-91.
15 Bridges to Machtig, 28 September 1944, DO35/1482; ibid., Machtig to Bridges, 30 October 1944; Bridges to Woodward, 17 November 1944.
16 DO to British High Commissioners, 28 September 1938, DO35/543/28/8.
17 Liesching to Batterbee, 28 July 1938, Batterbee Papers, Box 9/1.
18 Minutes and correspondence regarding supply of papers to the UK High Commissioner in New Zealand, October/November 1938, DO35/548F.
19 'Hankey, whose mother was Australian and who, unlike most of the British politicians who paid lip service to the idea, genuinely desired participation by the Dominions in Imperial policy making'; P. G. Edwards, 'The Rise and Fall of the High Commissioner: S. M. Bruce in London, 1933-45', in A. F. Madden and W. H. Morris (eds), Studies in Commonwealth Politics and History: Australia and Britain (London, 1986), p. 54; Batterbee to MacDonald, 7 January 1938, DO35/543/28/5.
20 Batterbee to Clark, 4 January 1939, Clark Papers (London School of Economics); 'Note of a meeting on 5 January 1939', DO35/543/28/21; although it is not within the remit of this study, Harding's warning extended as far as to also keeping the information from the Irish authorities.
21 Donald Lammers, 'From Whitehall After Munich: The Foreign Office and the Future Course of
British Policy', The Historical Journal (Vol. 16, No. 4; 1973), p. 832; Malkin to Dixon, 10 January 1939, DO35/543/28/21.
22 Ibid., minute by Stephenson, 26 January 1939; Bridges to Dixon, 24 January 1939.
23 Harding to Campbell/Clark, 1 February 1939, DO35/543/28/21.
24 Clark to Harding, 20 February 1939, DO35/543/28/23; Whiskard to Inskip, 16 March 1939, DO121/46; Campbell to Inskip, 24 March 1939, F0800/310.
25 Bridges to Harding, 13 February 1939, DO35/543/28/21; Harding to Batterbee, 18 February 1939, Batterbee Papers, Box