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DO to Australia, 28 January 1942, PREM4/43A/14; DO to Australia, 2 February 1942, Chartwell
Papers, CHAR20/69A.
Diary, 27 January 1942, Waterson Papers.
'Imperial War Cabinet', 14 February 1942, The New Statesman and Nation; ibid., Letter to the Editor from Hubert Gough, 21 February 1942.
J. A. R. Marriott, 'An Empire Cabinet', The Nineteenth Century (Vol. 131, No. 781; March 1942), p. 128.
'Situation in the South-West Pacific', 29 January 1942, House of Lords Official Report (Vol. 71), p. 569-78.
DO to Dominion governments, 28 January 1942, DO35/1010/476/141. 'Curtin is Blunt to Churchill', 27 January 1942, Daily Mail.
'Australians Stirred—Warm Praise for Mr Churchill', The Times, 30 January 1942; only two weeks later the same source for the story in The Times—the Melbourne Argus—was recommending that it
was no time for 'a one-man band' and urging Churchill to listen to his critics; '"Our Honeymoon is Finished"—Mr Curtin Warns Australia', The Times, 17 February 1942.
67 Garner, The Commonwealth Office, pp. 213-15; Diary, 9 February 1942 cited in Dilks, Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, p. 432; Page, Truant Surgeon, pp. 328-9; Harvey, Consultation and Cooperation in the Commonwealth, pp. 96-7.
68 Diary, 16 January 1942, Page Papers.
69 'Situation in the South West Pacific', 28/29 January 1942, House of Lords Official Report (Vol. 71), pp. 497-510, 537-41, 551.
70 Headlam Diaries, 8 February 1942, p. 294.
71 'World View—Anxiety in Australia', Manchester Guardian, 17 February 1942; Harvey to Eden, 13 February 1942, Harvey Papers; Diary, 16 February 1942 cited in Pimlott, The Dalton War Diary, pp. 369-70.
72 Diary, 16 February 1942 cited in Eden, The Reckoning, p. 321.
73 Minute, 17 February 1942, Bruce Papers.
74 Diary, 23 January 1942, Waterson Papers; Bruce to Curtin, 17 February 1942, DAFP V, pp. 530-1; see Day, Menzies and Churchill at War, p. 241.
75 Diary, 19 February 1942, Waterson Papers; 'Debate in the House of Commons (War Situation, Ministerial Changes)', comments by Prime Minister, 24 February 1942.
76 Machtig to Bridges, 12 February 1942, DO35/1010/476/141; Diary, 19 February 1942 cited in Dilks, Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, p. 435.
77 'Speech at United Warden's luncheon of the City of London', 23 February 1942, Attlee Papers (Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library), dep. 4, fol.209-220; Dixon Memoirs, Batterbee Papers, Box 20/5.
78 Diary, 26 July 1943, Massey, What's Past is Prologue.
79 Diary, 19 May 1942, Ritchie, Siren Years; Diary, 3 March 1942, Waterson Papers, ibid., Diary, 28 April 1942. It is perhaps almost ironic therefore that it would be Attlee, now as prime minister, who in October 1948 promulgated the demise of the terms 'Dominion' and 'Dominion governments' to be superseded by 'Commonwealth country' or 'member of the Commonwealth'; 'Dominion Status' was dropped in favour of 'fully independent Member of the Commonwealth'; see McIntyre, 'Commonwealth Legacy' in OHBE4, p. 696; the department had already been renamed in July 1947 as the 'Commonwealth Relations Office' (CRO).
80 Waterson Diary, 5 June 1942; ibid., 25 June 1942.
81 'Imperial War Cabinet', The New Statesman and Nation (14 and 21 February 1942).
82 Churchill to Curtin (Telegram), 20 February 1942, DO121/10B; ibid., Cross to DO, 21 February 1942; Cross to DO, 14 July 1943, DO121/10B; 'Draft of Message from Prime Minister to Mr Curtin', n.d. This incident returned to haunt both governments the following year. During the 'No Confidence' debate precipitated by the Opposition at the end of June 1943, various references were made to Burma and to the earlier decision to withdraw troops from the Western Desert. The DO was so concerned that a telegram was sent in Churchill's name urging Curtin to try 'to prevent embarrassing and possibly dangerous disclosures' in order to avoid 'public political controversy'.
83 Diary, 30 March 1942, Diaries of Harold Nicolson, p. 219.
84 'Evidence as to Behaviour of Australian Troops in Malaya', n.d., DO35/1010; minute by Boyd-Shannon,