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Official: Cabinet: papers 381 - 400., 29 Jul 1925 - 12 Aug 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/42

Scope and Contents

Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the Safeguarding of Industries (Gas Mantles), licenses for arms export, the future of the British Industries Fair, and the British Dyestuffs Corporation; the report of the Gas Mantle Committee; 1st Lord Balfour, Lord President of Council, on the use of the Severn Estuary for electricity production; 4th Lord Salisbury, [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal, on the coal crisis; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the Iraq frontier, and the rubber position; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary; a Home Office memorandum on arrangements for dealing with industrial emergencies (strikes); Wilfrid Ashley, Minister of Transport, on transport arrangements in industrial emergencies; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, on officers' pay and the Severn Barrage Scheme; reports of the Imperial Economic Committee on the marketing and preparation of foodstuffs, (general and meat); the report by the Treasury, Air Ministry and Ministry of Labour, on the labour requirements of the RAF in agricultural areas; the French draft reply to German proposals on security; the revised Proposed Treaty of Mutual Guarantee. Cabinet Paper 394 not present.Also includes: a Board of Trade memorandum on transport development and cotton growing in East Africa; an article from the Statist on the coal dispute.Printed index at CHAR 22/48.

Dates

  • Creation: 29 Jul 1925 - 12 Aug 1925

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 bound file (154 folios, including pamphlets))

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Former / Other Reference

CP 381 (25) - CP 400 (25)

Subject

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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