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38 Minute by Cadogan, 12 June 1944, FO371/42678.
39 'Report of Speeches made at the Opening Meeting of the Prime Ministers', 1 May 1944, DO35/1854.
40 A. L. Kennedy to Newton, 4 May 1944, FO371/42681.
41 Minute by Greenway, 24 May 1944, FO371/42678.
42 Duff to Cranborne, 5 June 1944, DO35/1204; Holmes to Machtig, 29 June 1944, DO35/1476.
43 Minute by Newton, 17 May 1944, FO371/42682.
44 Cranborne to Churchill, 11 May 1944, DO121/10A.
45 McKinnon, Undiplomatic Dialogue, p. 77.
46 Boyd-Shannon to Antrobus, 18 August 1944, DO35/1854; ibid., minute by Machtig, 18 May 1944; minute by Stephenson, 18 May 1944.
47 Ibid., Churchill to Eden and Bridges, 21 May 1944; 'Future World Organisation—Meeting on 17 May 1944'; Eden to Churchill, 2 June 1944.
48 Minute by Compton, 7 July 1944, FO371/42682.
49 'Impressions of a New Zealand Official on his Return from the Australia-New Zealand Conference at Canberra, 31st January 1944', Note by F. E. Cuming-Bruce, 7 February 1944, DO35/1993; Cross to Cranborne, 13 April 1944, DO35/1476; ibid., Cross to Cranborne, 1 July 1944. Cross also took the opportunity to provide Whitehall with a detailed verbal picture of Curtin. This began with the comment 'If Mr Curtin were to put on a clerical collar and stock he would appear to be a typical middle-aged Church of England clergyman but offered a positive conclusion of a man who was committed to his country, filled with "right purpose" and, more significantly perhaps, convinced that Australia's future was "as a partner of the Commonwealth of Nations"'; 'Note by Cross', 2 April 1944, DO35/1476.
50 Cross to Cranborne, 10 June, DO35/111.
51 Cross to Cranborne, 26 July 1944, DO35/1118.
52 Pickersgill, The Mackenzie King Record, pp. 663-96.
53 Ritchie Diary, 2 February 1944, Siren Years, pp. 163/164.
54 Minute by Campbell, 31 May 1944, FO371/42682; ibid., minute by Campbell, 25 May 1944.
55 Garner to Cranborne, 26 May 1944, DO35/1204.
56 Minute for Prime Minister, 27 April 1944, CAB120/813; ibid., Colville to Brigadier Jacob, 1 May 1944.
57 Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts, p. 452.
58 Thorn, Peter Fraser, pp. 222-4; W. D. McIntyre, 'Peter Fraser's Commonwealth' in A. D. McIntosh et al., New Zealand in World Affairs, Vol. 1 (Wellington, 1972), pp. 47-8.
59 'Meeting of the King's Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa', 16th May 1944, DO118/24.
60 'Commonwealth Consultations', Commonwealth and Empire Review (March-May 1945), p. 38-9.
61 'Prime Minister's Conference: A Milestone in History, Empire Review (June-August 1944), pp. 11-14.
62 'Family Council', Time, 17 April 1944; 'The Brothers', Time, 22 May 1944.
Notes to Chapter 12: Losing an Empire
1 Ashley Jackson, The British Empire and the Second World War (London, 2006), pp. 21-40.
2 'The Conference of 1944', The Round Table (No. 136; September 1944), pp. 311-12.
3 Halifax to FO, 7 May 1944, FO371/42682; ibid., minute by Campbell, 8 May 1944; minute by Butler, 10 May 1944; minute by Butler, 30 May 1944; minute by Campbell, 16 June 1944.
4 Ibid., minute by Mason, 19 May 1944.
5 Memorandum (WP(43)115), 22 March 1943, DO35/1838; ibid., Archer to Maclennan, 20 April
1943.
6 Memorandum prepared by MacDonald, 'Methods of Achieving Imperial Unity', April 1944, DO35/1489.
7 Minute by Cranborne, 12 November 1944, DO35/1204; ibid., minute by Emrys-Evans, 6 November 1944; Garner to Machtig, 15 April 1944.
8 Professor H. L. Stewart, 'A Closer Empire Unity', Speech at the Empire Club of Canada, 27 April
1944.
9 Charles Luke, 'Plan for Commonwealth Unity', Empire Review (March-May 1944), p. 72.
10 Minute by Campbell, 25 May 1944, FO371/42682; ibid., minute by Newton, 1 June 1944.
11 Halifax to Eden, 14 April 1944, DO35/1204.
12 Ibid., Circular from Eden, 3 October 1944; Machtig to Emrys-Evans, 24 July 1944; Garner to Costar, 4 February 1944; Batterbee to Machtig, 14 April 1944.
13 'Civil Aviation', 1 June 1943, House of Commons Official Report (Vol. 390), pp. 90-143.
14 WHCM, 9 June 1942, DO121/12; WHCM,