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64 Nicholas Mansergh, Problems ofExternalPolicy, 1931-39 (London, 1952), p. 379; Andrew Stewart, '"The Liquidator": Sir Harry Batterbee and the British Wartime High Commission in New Zealand' in Chris Baxter and Andrew Stewart (eds), Diplomats at War (Leiden, 2008), pp. 171-94; Inskip to Chamberlain, 1 September 1939, PREM1/300; Lewis Gann, 'South Africa and the Third Reich', The International History Review (Vol. 14; 1992), p. 518.
65 W. G. Stevens, 'Recall Without Repining', W. G. Stevens Papers (Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington), 84-006-2/3, p. 147.
66 'Diary of a Crisis: Sunday, 3rd September 1939', Batterbee Papers, Box 9/5.
Notes to Chapter 3: Controlling the Alliance
1 D. C. Watt, How War Came (London, 1989) pp. 601-4; Parker, Chamberlain and Appeasement, pp. 337-42.
2 Holland, The Commonwealth Alliance, pp. 198-199; Diary, 17 January 1939, Inskip Papers INKP1/2; Inskip to Simon, 31 January 1939, Sir John Simon Papers (Bodleian Library, Oxford), Box 85; publicly it was understood that Inskip had been made the scapegoat for increasing dissatisfaction over government policies. Privately though it appears that much of the reason for his demotion was because he had come to believe that war was now certain to happen, leaving him at odds with Chamberlain; Sean Greenwood, 'Caligula's Horse Revisited: Sir Thomas Inskip as Minister for the Coordination of Defence, 1936-1939', Journal of Strategic Studies, (Vol. 17, No. 2; June 1994), pp. 17-38; 'Cato', Guilty Men (London, 1940), p. 79.
3 Earl of Avon, The Eden Memoirs: Vol. 3, The Reckoning (London, 1965), pp. 62-8; V. Rothwell, Anthony Eden: A Political Biography (London, 1992), p. 51; David Carlton, Anthony Eden: A Biography (London, 1981), pp. 151-3.
4 War Cabinet 7(39), 12 September 1939, CAB65/1 (hereafter 'WCM'); Yates to Tucker, 3 September 1939, PREM1/384; he exercised this right a total of 27 times during his period at the DO.
5 'Relative strengths of each of the Dominion Armed forces at the outbreak of war, September 1939', prepared by Miss Y. Streatfield, n.d. (1945?), CAB101/275; Cox, 'The Commonwealth' in Toynbee and Toynbee (eds), The Initial Triumph of the Axis, pp. 304-6.
6 R. G. Neale (ed.), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, 1937-49, Vol. 2,1939 (Canberra, 1976), p. 232 (hereafter 'DAFP'); 'Action taken by the Dominions', 6 September 1939, WP(R)(39)5, CAB67/1; Campbell to DO, 20 September 1939, DO35/1003/3/1/2; Whiskard to DO, 12 September 1939, DO35/1003/3/2/3.
7 'Canadian Cooperation-Report by Chiefs of Staff Committee', 4 September 1939, WP(39)4, CAB66/1.
8 The Land Forces Committee consisted of Hoare, Chatfield, Burgin, Churchill and Hore-Belisha, CAB65/1, 23(39), 22 September 1939; J. R. M. Butler, Grand Strategy: Vol. 2 (London, 1957), p. 32.
9 'An Australian Army of 100,000', Daily Telegraph, 20 September 1939; Most Secret Cablegram, 8 September 1939, DAFP, p. 249.
10 'Action taken by the Dominions', WP(R)(39)50, 17 October 1939, CAB68; there were 6,600 troops earmarked in the first instance but it was later confirmed that the intention was to send an expeditionary force of a fully equipped division to any theatre within eight months, the British identifying France, Burma, India, Singapore or Fiji as the best locations. The New Zealand Navy's assets were placed under the Admiralty's command and RNZAF personnel in Britain were permitted to serve in the RAF adding 500 to its numbers with an order for 30 Wellington bombers also being waived; Fraser to Jordan, 3 October 1939 (National Archives, Wellington) EA1 63/2/2 pt.1; W. David McIntyre, New Zealand Prepares for War (Canterbury, 1988), pp. 337-54.
11 WCM(39)50, 19 October 1939, CAB65/1; WCM(39)75-78, 8-10 November 1939, CAB65/2; telegram from R. Campbell, 25 November 1939, CAB21/952; Michael Dockrill, 'The Foreign Office and France During the Phoney War, September 1939-May 1940' in M. L. Dockrill and B. McKercher (eds), Diplomacy and World Power, Studies in