Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1940.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; senior civil servants including Sir Horace Wilson [Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury and official Head of HM Civil Service] and Sir James Grigg [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War]; the Chiefs of Staff; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered by the minutes include: military production; reinforcing Malta; relations with Vichy France; charges against Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken, Minister of Aircraft Production]; Major-General Percy Hobart; bombing Germany; the Home Guard; operations in French West Africa [later Mauritania, The Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Benin]; protecting London from air raids; reinforcing the Middle East.