Letter from [Valentine] Lawford [Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] to [John] Higham [Private Secretary] (Admiralty) enclosing a letter from Arthur Mann [former editor of the Yorkshire Post] to Halifax warning that Labour leaders will not serve under [Neville] Chamberlain and oppose a government containing Sir John Simon or Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] but would serve under Halifax or WSC; Labour members favoured for office are Herbert Morrison, [Hugh] Dalton, [Ernest] Bevin, Sir Walter Citrine [General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress and President of the International Federation of Trade Unions] and [Clement] Attlee.