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50 Duncan Hall, 'The British Commonwealth of Nations at War' in Duncan Hall and Elliot, The British Commonwealth at War, pp. 29-32; W. David McIntyre, The Commonwealth of Nations: Origins and Impacts, 1869-1971 (London, 1977), p. 177; Madden and Darwin (eds), The Dominions and India since 1900, pp. 34-49; A. J. Stockwell, 'The War and the British Empire' in John Turner (ed.), Britain and the First World War (London, 1988), pp. 36-48; Beloff, Imperial Sunset, pp. 218-220; Maurice Hankey, The Supreme Command, 1914-18, Vol. 2 (London, 1961), pp. 657-63; Hall, Commonwealth, pp. 160-76.
51 Op. cit., Hall, pp. 21-5; Judd, Empire, pp. 214-25; Porter, The Lion's Share, pp. 134-40.
52 Holland, The Commonwealth Alliance, pp. 1-151, 167-209.
53 Diary, 21 September 1939, Mackenzie King Papers.
54 Wilson to Chamberlain, 12 September 1939, DO35/1003/3/16.
55 Minute by Cavendish Bentinck, 4 October 1939, FO371/23963; WP(G)(39)10, 14 September 1939, CAB21/874.
56 Bickersteth to Euan Wallace, 1 October 1939, Hankey Papers; Campbell to DO, 5 October 1939, FO371/23967; DO to High Commissioners in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, 4 October 1939, CAB21/489.
57 'Meetings with Dominion Ministers', November 1939, CAB99/1; Garner, The Commonwealth Office, pp. 197-8; there were six Canadians, two each from Australia and New Zealand and a single South African.
58 'Minutes of First Meeting', 1 November 1939; ibid., 'Minutes of Eighth Meeting', 20 November
1939. One of the delegates described his experiences of the meetings: 'The British are a phlegmatic race . it might have been the meeting of some suburban county council discussing the rates', Reitz, No Outspan, p. 248.
59 Diary, 2 November 1939 in Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1939-45, (New York, 1967), p. 41.
60 'Questions relating to Canadian War Finance', 1 December 1939 CAB21/490; 'I wrote in my diary, "So now it's to be a fight between a monopoly seller in Canada and a monopoly buyer here. Bad business this in wartime. Both sides are to blame"', Pearson, p. 145; London's suspicions seem not to have been misplaced in light of the following: 'It is not always wrong to turn other person's misfortune to one's personal advantage. And by the same token, it is not wrong for Canadian enterprises to turn to profitable account their advantageous position and opportunity in respect of the current war . our enterprises would be blameworthy if they failed to use the present opportunity to sell, to the maximum of possibility all they can ... and to sell at prices established by the law of supply and demand', J. C. Kirkwood, 'The War and Business', The Quarterly Review of Commerce (No. VII; Autumn, 1939).
61 'A Discussion between the Chancellor, the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and Bruce and Casey', 24 November 1939, CAB21/490.
62 Diary, 11 October 1939, Avon Papers.
63 'Debate on the Address', 30 November 1939, House of Commons Official Report (Vol. 355), pp. 405-8, 761-2, 1, 341-2.
64 Peake (FO News Department) to Eden, 1 February 1940, Avon Papers, AP20/8/286; 'Research Draft prepared by Mrs Agnew', August 1945, CAB102/33; Diary, 24 April 1940, Pearson Papers.
65 Minute by Dixon, 26 January 1940, FO371/25224; ibid., minutes by Bentinck, 12 and 26 January
1940.
66 Minute by Dixon, 21 February 1940, DO35/1003/3/4/32; minute by Dixon, 26 January 1940, FO371/25224; ibid., minute by Bentinck, 26 January 1940.
67 Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm (London, 1948), pp. 373, 569; S. Roskill, The Navy at War, 1939-1945 (London, 1960), pp. 59-61; William Manchester, Winston Churchill: The Caged Lion (London, 1988), p. 572; David Reynolds, 'Churchill in 1940: The Worst and Finest Hour' in Roger Blake and Wm. Roger Louis (eds), Churchill, (London, 1993) pp. 241-5; Churchill to Chamberlain, 25 December 1939, Neville Chamberlain Papers; Clive Ponting, Churchill (London, 1994), pp. 416-28;