File includes notes by Conservative ministers (R A Butler, Harry Crookshank, Lord Woolton, Duncan Sandys, J J Llewellin, Oliver Stanley, James Stuart) advising on possible dates; note from CSC to WSC, 12 May 1945, advising the continuation of the Coalition until after the end of the war with Japan [this is not published in "Speaking for themselves]; note of a discussion of the 1922 Committee on the respective merits of a Summer or an Autumn election; letter from Sir Archibald Southby (Chairman, Surrey County Conservative organisation), recommending an autumn election, with comments by Lord Beaverbrook, pointing out his lack of understanding of election conditions; letter by Lt-Colonel Patrick Blair, Political Sec. to Chairman of Unionist Party in Scotland, recommending an early election, with covering note by James Stuart (later Lord Stuart of Findhorn); Report from the Daily Express Centre of Public Opinion, on the date of the General Election [74% preferred an autumn election].