Food
Found in 322 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 14 Nov 1939
Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on food rationing and using "Max" [1st Lord] Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] as an advisor. [carbon].
(Untitled), 07 Oct 1939
Letter from WSC to Sam [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood, Lord Privy Seal] with suggestions for the reorganisation of the Home Front and rationing. [draft; see CHAR 19/2A/51-53 for final version].
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1939 - 30 Nov 1939
(Untitled), 21 Oct 1939
Typed memorandum from WSC on importation and rationing of meat and sugar.
(Untitled), 22 Feb 1940
Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on a memorandum ("W.P.(G) (40) 51") on the shipping situation and the food programme.
(Untitled), 03 Apr 1940
Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on butter and whale oil, and preventing Germany getting hold of supplies.
(Untitled), 06 May 1940
Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on "W.P. (G) (40) 121 and 123" about the food import programme.
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1940
Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Minister of Food, on meat and the reports of the Scientific Committee on food. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 15 Feb 1917
Letter from Sir Arthur Lee, Director-General of Food Production to the Prime Minister [David Lloyd George] on means of boosting food production. [Copy].
(Untitled), 08 Oct 1939
Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood, Lord Privy Seal] with suggestions for the reorganisation of the Home Front and rationing. [see CHAR 19/2C/311-313 for draft].
(Untitled), 15 Nov 1940
Memorandum from Kathleen Hill [WSC's secretary] to John Martin [Prime Minister's Private Secretary], asking if it would be in order to supply food coupons to Mrs Tree's chef at Ditchley [Dytchley Park, Oxfordshire] as she was entertaining for the Prime Minister, and asking for a further supply.
(Untitled), 22 Apr [1943]
Minute from Robert Hudson [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries], and 1st Lord Woolton [Minister of Food, earlier Frederick Marquis] on the provision of a sugar ration for bees.
(Untitled), 19 Apr 1943
Minute from WSC to the Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] and the Minister of Food [1st Lord Woolton, earlier Frederick Marquis] on the discontinuance of the sugar ration to domestic bee keepers, demanding to know the saving in "starving the bees of private owners". [Carbon].
(Untitled), 11 Mar 1945
Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he shares WSC's concern over the provision of foodstuffs for Northwest Europe, in light of General Dwight Eisenhower's [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] estimates of future requirements; and suggesting discussions between the United Kingdom and the United States on this matter are resumed. Photocopy.
(Untitled), 16 Mar 1945
(Untitled), 18 Mar 1945
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" requesting he consider the text of a proposed proclamation intended for the German Army warning them that the consequences of prolonged resistance through 1945 will be famine; but also acknowledging the danger that the Germans may react to such a tactic by starving all foreigners, including prisoners of war, in Germany. Photocopy.
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1945
(Untitled), 24 Mar 1945
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1945 - 30 Apr 1945
(Untitled), 01 May 1945 - 31 May 1945
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1945
Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces [General Dwight Eisenhower] has advised that additional food is required to meet civilian supply contingencies in the 21st Army Group area of Belgium and Holland [or Netherlands]; and suggesting that if the British Government decides to draw this from the stockpile for use in Eastern Holland, then this is replaced adequately. Photocopy.
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1945
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" detailing the degree of deficiency in supplies [to the 21st Army Group area of Belgium and the Netherlands], emphasising that the United Kingdom will require immediate replacement of a large part of the food stuffs it has diverted [there]. Photocopy.
(Untitled), 12 Apr 1945
Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" approving of WSC's proposed message to the German Government [on sustaining the civil population in German-occupied Holland (the Netherlands)] given that Marshal Stalin also approves.
(Untitled), 17 Apr 1945
Telegram from Minister of Production [Oliver Lyttelton, later Lord Chandos] (Washington [United States]) to WSC marked "Beefeater No. 33" stating that the uncertainty in the US administration created by the death of President Roosevelt and the impending San Francisco [United States] Conference means that negotiations over food supply problems may have to be postponed.
(Untitled), 18 Apr 1945
Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" setting out the procedure for the meeting of the United States and British Armies, and Soviet forces; and commenting on possible developments in the Allied zones of occupation in Germany with regard to the control structure and food distribution.