Extract from Cabinet conclusions on the redistribution of manpower in the second half of 1945: on maximising releases to benefit the restoration of civilian industry and housing, and the position of serving women; including contributions from WSC, the Secretary of State for Air [Harold MacMillan, later 1st Lord Stockton], and the Minister of Works [Duncan Sandys].

Note by WSC headed "Insert at 'A' (Housing)" [in CHAR 20/232/25-29] on "special brigades of demobilised men" enlisted to carry out essential rebuilding work. [Carbon copy].

Note by WSC headed "Insert at 'A' (Housing)" [in CHAR 20/232/25-29] on "special brigades of demobilised men" enlisted to carry out essential rebuilding work. [Carbon copy].

Draft Cabinet memorandum in WSC's name marked "Secret" setting out the Cabinet programme for July 1945, commenting on the election campaign and in the appendix giving an outline of the main issues facing them in foreign and domestic policy. [prepared by Sir Edward Bridges, Secretary to the Cabinet, and annotated by WSC's Secretary Patrick Kinna].

Cabinet memorandum by Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson, later 1st Lord Waverley] on man-power in the second half of 1945, including as an appendix a memorandum by the Minister of Labour and National Service [R A Butler].

Letter from John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] to A F Ewing [Private Secretary to the Minister of Works] stating that CSC has drawn his attention to an article by Oswald Birley in the Times of 29 May [1945] about the continued closure of Regent's Park and asking for clarification of the position [carbon].

Letter from Sir Eric Geddes (55 & 56 Pall Mall, London) to WSC trusting that CSC is not seriously ill, agreeing with WSC on electricity and the repopulation of the countryside by garden cities, advocating the development of rural industrial centres and recommending that WSC should talk to Charles Merz about electricity.

Extract from the "Parliamentary Report" of 21 December containing Boothby's speech in the House of Commons during the Adjournment Debate, calling for a clear explanation of the Government's economic and trade policy, and the purchase of coal-mining royalties, the improvement of city roads and housing for the poor. [Covering letter at CHAR 2/234/5]. Printed.

Letter from [WSC] to the editor of the Times on Henry Rider Haggard's assertion that rural depopulaton and urban congestion can only be remedied by a multiplication of small holdings and a system of Protection. Draft in the hand of ?.