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49 Churchill to Cranborne, 25 March 1941, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/13/8; minute by Holmes, 13 April 1941, DO35/1012/28/1/1.
50 Churchill to Mackenzie King, 11 May 1941 in Churchill, The Second World War: Vol. 3, The Grand Alliance (London, 1949), p. 595.
51 Ibid., Churchill to Mackenzie King, 10 May 1941; Day, The Great Betrayal, p. 134.
52 Cranborne to Churchill, 12 May 1941, PREM4/43A/12; Mackenzie King to Lord Davies, 19 May 1941, DO35/999/8/3; ibid., Mackenzie King to Cranborne, 20 May 1941.
53 Churchill to Foreign and Dominion Secretaries, 30 May 1941, PREM4/43A/12; ibid., Cranborne to Churchill, 30 May 1941.
54 Cranborne to MacDonald, 31 May 1941, Malcolm MacDonald Papers (University of Durham), 14/4/13.
55 Cranborne to Churchill, 3 June 1941, PREM4/43A/12; ibid., Cranborne to Churchill, 6 June 1941; Minutes of Advisory War Council Meeting, Canberra, 28 May 1941, cited in Horner, Inside the War Cabinet, p. 62.
56 Halifax to FO, 12 June 1941, FO371/27575; Menzies had told his colleagues in Canberra upon his eventual return, 'Mr Churchill has no conception of the British Dominions as separate entities. Furthermore, the more the distance from the heart of the Empire, the less he thinks of it'; cited in Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain and the War against Japan, 1941-1945 (London, 1978), p. 63.
57 Diary, 5 June 1941, Hankey Papers; General Ismay to Brooke-Popham, 15 June 1941, Ismay Papers, V/1/13; Cranborne to Churchill, 6 June 1941, PREM4/43A/12; Diary, 6 June 1941, Hankey Papers; General Auchinleck to Ismay, 29 September 1941, Ismay Papers, IV/Con/1/1A; Garner, The Commonwealth Office, p. 203; this idea was, indirectly, forwarded to King George VI but his reaction was not recorded—Diary, 20 October 1940, Colville Papers (Churchill College), CLVL.
58 Diary, 5 June 1941, Waterson Papers.
59 WHC, 8 July 1941, DO121/11; Diary, 10 July 1941, Waterson Papers.
60 Casey to Menzies, 30 May 1940, DAFP III, p. 361; Bruce to Menzies, 29 June 1940, Bruce Papers; ibid., 'Speech given by Bruce at a dinner for Sir Ronald Cross', 18 May 1941; Cranborne to Churchill, 5 June 1941, DO35/1009/446/1/21.
61 Churchill to Smuts, 13 June 1941, PREM4/43A/16; Waterson to Smuts, 11 June 1941, Waterson Papers; ibid., Smuts to Waterson, 16 June 1941; Smuts to Duncan, 16 June 1941, Duncan Papers; Cranborne to Churchill, 17 June 1941, DO35/99/8/2.
62 Cranborne to Churchill, 17 June 1941, PREM4/43A/12.
63 Colville Diary, 21 June 1941/p. 480.
64 Churchill to Cranborne, 17 June 1941, PREM4/43A/12; Colville to Garner, 18 June 1941, DO35/999/8/2; Colville, His Inner Circle, pp. 174-5.
65 Cranborne to Churchill, 18 June 1941, PREM4/43A/12; ibid., Churchill to Dominion Prime Ministers, 21 June 1941.
66 Pickersgill, The Mackenzie King Record, pp. 216-17.
67 Minute by P. Mason, 15 October 1940, FO371/25224.
68 Mackenzie King to Churchill, 22 June 1941, PREM4/43A/12; ibid., Statement to the House of Commons by Churchill, 24 June 1941.
69 MacDonald to Cranborne, 1 August 1941, DO121/68; ibid., 'Note No. 1', 1 August 1941.
70 In the draft of his memoirs, the British high commissioner later asserted that, in his view, Churchill generally regarded his Canadian counterpart as 'a pygmy [and] with a touch of contempt'; Draft Memoirs, n.d., MacDonald Papers, 121/10/10.
71 Diary, 16 July 1941, Mackenzie King Papers; Garner to Martin, 14 July 1941, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/27/36; ibid., Churchill to Cranborne, 18 July 1941, CHAR20/27/38; ibid., 'Note No. 2', 1 August 1941; Mackenzie King to Menzies, 2 August 1941, DO121/68; ibid., Cranborne to MacDonald, 11 August 1941; Pickersgill, The Mackenzie King Record, p. 235.
72 The Times, 13 August 1941; Menzies to Bruce, 8 August 1941 in W. J. Hudson and H. J. W. Stokes (eds), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, 1937-1949: Vol. 5, July 1941-June 1942 (Canberra, 1982) (hereafter 'DAFP V').
73 Diary, 14 April 1941, Menzies Papers; Diary, 17 April 1941, Pearson Papers; Diary, 1 May 1941, Hankey Papers; DO to Eden, 14 August