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3 Minute by Churchill, 8 April 1943, DO35/1470.
4 Ibid., Churchill to Attlee, 11 April 1943.
5 Cranborne to Churchill, 5 November 1943, DO121/10A.
6 Attlee to Churchill, 27 April 1944, DO121/10B; Cranborne to Churchill, 15 October 1943, DO121/10A; ibid., Cranborne to Churchill, 1 November 1943.
7 Ibid., Cranborne to Churchill, January 1944.
8 'Meeting with Dominion Prime Ministers', Memorandum by Cranborne, 7 January 1944, DO35/1473.
9 Ibid., 'Extract from the conclusions of a meeting of the War Cabinet held at 10 Downing Street, on Thursday 20 January 1944'.
10 Minute by Greenway, 7 February 1944, FO371/42677.
11 Minute by Boyd-Shannon, 9 December 1943, DO35/1473; ibid., minute by Machitg, 5 January 1944; Machtig to Cranborne, 20 January 1944.
12 The Whitehall body was to consist of five Ministers supported by three secretaries. The chair would be taken by Cranborne with Bevin, Amery, Colonel Stanley and the FO Minister of State, Richard Law.
13 'Minutes of a meeting held on the DO on 15 February 1944', DPM(44) 1st Meeting, DO35/1488.
14 Minute by Newton, 14 February 1944, FO371/42681; ibid., minute by Greenway, 12 February 1944; minute by Newton, 17 March 1944.
15 'Cooperation in the British Commonwealth', Memorandum by Cranborne, 7 April 1944, FO371/42682.
16 'Minutes of meeting held on 12 April 1944', DO35/1488.
17 Minute by Newton, 13 April 1944, FO371/42682; ibid., minute by Greenway, 11 April 1944.
18 Minute by Machtig, 12 February 1944, DO35/1474; ibid., Bevin to Cranborne, 1 February 1944; Amery to Cranborne, 25 January 1944.
19 Cranborne to Chiefs of Staff, 3 March 1944, DO35/1473.
20 'The Coordination of Defence Policy within the British Commonwealth in Relation to a World System of Security', Memorandum by the Chiefs of Staff Committee, 31 March 1944, DO35/1744; Lt. Colonel G. S. Cole (MO1) to Colonel W. Ray, 27 March 1944, CAB121/156; the first draft had
been undertaken by Brigadier Jacob and was submitted at the beginning of March 1944; 'Note by Brigadier Jacob', 8 March 1944, CAB80/81.
21 'Secretary's Note for the Chairman', 11 April 1944, DO35/1474; ibid., 'Secretary's Note for Chairman', 20 April 1944.
22 Minute by Butler, 12 February 1944, FO371/42677; ibid., minute by Jebb, 14 February 1944; Jacob to Greenway, 10 March 1944; minute by Brigadier Jacob, 1 April 1944.
23 Ibid., Smuts to Churchill (Telegram), 20 March 1944; minute by Greenway, 21 March 1944.
24 Greenway to Eden, 26 April 1944, FO371/42678.
25 'Growing Unity of the Empire', Empire Review (June-August 1944), pp. 69-71; Cranborne to Churchill, 20 April 1944, DO121/10A; ibid., 'Notes for Debate on Motion Regarding Empire and Commonwealth Unity', n.d.
26 'Empire and Commonwealth Unity', House of Commons Official Report (Vol. 399), 20/21 April 1944, pp. 390-486, 497-586.
27 'Mother England', Time, 1 May 1944.
28 'Note of Arrangements for Air Passages for Dominion Prime Ministers', 18 April 1944, DO35/1204.
29 Ibid., 'List of Accommodation Reserved for Dominion Prime Ministers', n.d.; note to Colonel Sir Eric Crankshaw, 16 April 1944.
30 'Arrangements for Meetings with Dominion Prime Ministers', Memorandum by the Prime Minister, 25 April 1944, CAB121/156.
31 'Meeting of British Commonwealth Prime Ministers, May 1944—Notes on Administrative Arrangements', n.d., DO35/1480.
32 Lascelles to Cranborne, 1 April 1944, DO35/1475; ibid., minute by Stephenson, 22 April 1944.
33 'List of Social Engagements', n.d., DO35/1204; Cranborne to Churchill, 3 April 1944, DO121/ 10A.
34 'Social Engagements—Meeting of British Commonwealth Prime Ministers, May 1944', n.d., DO35/1480.
35 Cranborne to Churchill, 8 May 1944, DO121/10A.
36 'Publicity Arrangements', Note by Joint Secretaries, 5 April 1944, FO371/42682; 'Publicity Engagements—Meeting of British Commonwealth Prime Ministers, May 1944', n.d., DO35/1480.
37 'Commonwealth Faces the Future', The Times, 2 May 1944; 'Common Counsel', The Round Table (No. 134; March 1944), pp. 103-107; 'The Conference', The Round