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74 'Extracts of a telegram dated 2 August 1941', MacDonald Papers, 14/5/11-16; Orde, The Eclipse of Great Britain, pp. 135-6.
75 Churchill to Attlee, 7 August 1941, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/48/2; Bridges to Churchill, 5 August 1941, PREM3/485/3; MacDonald to Cranborne, 19 August 1941, MacDonald Papers, 14/5/9.
76 Batterbee to Cranborne, 29 April 1941, Batterbee Papers, 6/1; Diary, 30 June 1941, Waterson Papers; Diary, 22 August 1941, Mackenzie King Papers.
77 Smuts to Churchill, 23 August 1941, DO35/1009/446/1/38; Attlee to Churchill, 14 August 1941, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/23.
78 Churchill to Menzies, 18 August 1941, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/38/112.
79 Diary, 20 August 1941, Harvey Papers; DO to Eden, 14 August 1941, FO954/4; Diary, 25 August 1941, Mackenzie King Papers.
80 J. J. Dedman, 'Defence Policy Decisions Before Pearl Harbor', Australian Journal of Politics and History, No. 13 (1967), pp. 343-4; Australian Cabinet Minutes (Vol. 7), 19 August 1941, (National Archives, Canberra) CRS A2697; Paul Hasluck, The Government and the People (Canberra, 1973) pp. 495-6.
81 Diary, 22 August 1941, Mackenzie King Papers; ibid., Diary, 24 August 1941; Diary, 5 September 1941; HCWM, 22 August 1941, DO121/11.
82 Cross to Cranborne, 13 August 1941, CAB120/20; A. W. Martin, Robert Menzies, A Life: Vol. 1 (Melbourne, 1993), pp. 364-5, 373-8; Menzies, Afternoon Light (London, 1967), pp. 14, 52-4.
83 Churchill to Menzies, 29 August 1941, DO121/19; Waterson to Smuts, 30 August 1941, Waterson Papers.
84 Diary, 5 September 1941, Mackenzie King Papers; ibid., 16 October 1941; Churchill to Athlone, 12 September 1941, PREM4/44/10.
85 Diary, 22 August 1941, Massey Papers; Massey to Pearson, 12 September 1941, Pearson Papers.
86 Cranborne to Emrys-Evans, 31 August 1941, Emrys-Evans Papers.
Notes to Chapter 6: Pacific Test
1 Fadden to Bruce, 29 August 1941, DAFP V; Martin, Menzies, pp. 364-5.
2 Sir Earle Page, Truant Surgeon (London, 1963), p. 298.
3 Hasluck, The Government and the People, pp. 505-7.
4 Cross to Cranborne, 20 January 1942, Emrys-Evans Papers.
5 Bruce to Fadden, 29 August 1941, Bruce Papers.
6 Cross to Cranborne, 13 January 1944, DO121/11; Bruce to Fadden, 29 August 1941, DAFP V.
7 Garner, The Commonwealth Office, p. 211.
8 Churchill to Fadden, 29 August 1941, PREM4/50/4A.
9 Diary, 25 August 1941, Waterson Papers; ibid., Waterson to Smuts, 30 August 1941; Diary, 2 September 1941; Waterson to Smuts, 30 August 1941; Smuts to Waterson, 2 September 1941.
10 Churchill to Fadden, 31 August 1941, DAFP V.
11 Fadden to Churchill, 4 September 1941, DO35/1010/476/3/30.
12 Fadden to Churchill, 5 September 1941, DO35/999/8/15.
13 'Dominions and the War: Voice in Direction', The Times, 12 June 1941; ibid., 'The Dominions and the War Cabinet', 13 August 1941; 'Dominions' Part in the War: Question of Cabinet Representation', 28 August 1941; 'The Dominions' Part', 25 August 1941.
14 Cranborne to Churchill, 4 September 1941, PREM4/50/5.
15 Cranborne to Churchill, 6 September 1941, DO35/999/8/13.
16 It also left him unsure about his high commissioner: 'I really don't know what has happened to Ronnie. Apart from telephoning every day to say that he must have a new car or two new bathrooms, 'on public grounds', he has now taken to lecturing Australian Ministers as if they were small and rather dirty boys. The air of the Antipodes seems to have gone to his head ...'; Cranborne to Emrys-Evans, 31 August 1941, Emrys-Evans Papers.
17 Churchill to Cranborne, 6 September 1941, PREM4/50/5; '[Page] was no polished Bruce. He was a country doctor, who, having made good in Macquarie Street as a very fine surgeon, got into politics and stayed there by a remarkable shrewdness in anticipating which way the cat was going to jump, and jumping before it'; 'Our Best Men Must Go to Singapore and London', Sydney Daily Telegraph, 23 December 1941.
18 Minute by Stephenson, 8 September 1941, DO35/999/8/13; Machtig to Cranborne, 9 September 1941, DO35/999/4;