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Letter from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] with major points of joint strategy: expansion of shipping convoys against U-boat attack; increase of food imports in 1943; more American troops to Britain; increasing bombing, night bombing and using aircraft against U-boats.

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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].

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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].

Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, November 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; the Sea Lords, particularly [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser] and 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound]; various naval directors; Professor [F A] Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] and Major...

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Typed memorandum from WSC on importation and rationing of meat and sugar.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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].

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Letter from Sir Arthur Lee, Director-General of Food Production to the Prime Minister [David Lloyd George] on means of boosting food production. [Copy].

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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].

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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.

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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.

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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].

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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.

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he is concerned about the "approaching crisis in world food supplies as a whole"; suggesting sending Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of Production] and Colonel John Llewellin [Minister of Food] to join United States representatives to discuss how to cut consumption down to the level of supplies; and stating that the situation in North West Europe is so serious that he must ask Roosevelt...

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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.

Scope and Contents Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" welcoming the proposal to send Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of Production] and Colonel John Llewellin [Minister of Food] to Washington [United States] to discuss food problems; stating that the US Government is prepared to investigate the position of all major foods in short supply and both military and civilian requirements; but that they cannot assume responsibility to meet all General Dwight...

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of Production] and Colonel John Llewellin [Minister of Food] have left for Washington [United States] that day with the power to discuss the whole [food] supply problem; and recommending that General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army] is immediately informed of the amount [of food] which can...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1945.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; the Chief Whip [James Stuart]; Ralph...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1945. Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chief Whip [James Stuart]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service]....

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.