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12 Bewley to Machtig, 26 October 1939, CAB21/490.
13 Price to Dykes, 25 October 1939, CAB21/677; ibid., Antrobus to Porter, 25 October 1939; General Smuts had suggested that a total of two army divisions and fourteen air force squadrons be raised and trained for service in Northern or Eastern Africa.
14 Andrew Stewart, 'The British Government and the 1939 Negotiations for the Empire Air Training Plan', The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 377; October 2004), pp. 739-54; Cecil Edwards, Bruce of Melbourne: Man of Two Worlds (London, 1965), pp. 277-80; Butler, Grand Strategy, pp. 39-40; William Stevenson, The Origins of the British Commonwealth Air Training Scheme from 1923 to December 1939 (University of London, 1981) unpublished manuscript; F. J. Hatch, The Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1939-45 (Ottawa, 1983), pp. 1-12; W. A. B. Douglas, The Creation of a National Air Force: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Vol. 2 (Ottawa, 1986), pp. 200-4.
15 WCM(39)49, 10 October 1939, CAB65/1.
16 Halifax had informed Eden of a report he had from the Washington Embassy of comments by Herridge, the Canadian minister in Washington. 'Everything [in Canada] had become rather drab. Volunteers had been told they were not immediately required, no stirring appeal had been made to deeper Canadian feeling that wished to be convinced that it was engaged upon a holy war. Herridge told me that the Canadian contribution to the Air Force made little popular appeal. The great majority of his friends would prefer conscription'; Report no. W15706/10478/68, 30 October 1939, FO371/23966.
17 WCM(39)58, 24 October 1939, CAB65/1.
18 Pearson, Through Diplomacy to Politics, p. 140.
19 WCM(39)68, 2 November 1939, CAB65/2.
20 Sir Llewellyn Woodward, British Foreign Policy in the Second World War, Vol. 1 (London, 1970), pp. 20-2.
21 WCM(39)68, 2 November 1939, CAB65/2; French tension over Britain's contribution was still increasing as witnessed in the tone of the telegrams being despatched by Ronald Campbell, the British ambassador in Paris, 'the French estimate that the French Empire is bearing a burden of war expenditure equal to that of the British Empire although it is only one third as wealthy ... the fear persists that Great Britain will insist upon a peace which will contain what France would not consider adequate political and military guarantees against any further threat', Campbell to FO, 25 November 1939, CAB21/952.
22 Report no. F11951/4108/23, 18 November 1939, FO371/23572; Cavendish Bentinck, reading the relevant telegrams in the FO, complained that, 'the Australians remain terrified of the Japanese, refuse to give any undertakings as regards an expeditionary force, and are concentrating to an excessive extent on home defence'; Report no. W14977/14472/68, 18 October 1939, FO371/23967.
23 Dominion High Commissioners Wartime Meeting (69), 22 November 1939, DO121/6 (hereafter 'HCWM'); High Commissioner, Canberra to DO (No. 301), 24 November 1939, FO371/23967.
24 As he wrote to his sister, 'As you know, I have always been more afraid of a peace offer than of an air raid, but I did feel that if Hitler made it himself it would almost certainly be in such a form as to be plainly acceptable', Chamberlain to Ida, 10 October 1939; cited in Iain Macleod, Neville
Chamberlain (London, 1961); Christopher Hill, Cabinet Decisions on Foreign Policy (London, 1991), pp. 100-45.
25 'Views of the Dominions',