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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the low level of the "entrance of ships with cargo". [Copy; given running number 226].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the low level of the "entrance of ships with cargo". [Copy; given running number 226].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on U-boat sinkings in September. [Copy; given running number 213].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on British and United States ship-building capacity, referring to "W.P.(G) (41) 5". [Copy; given running number 205].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on increasing recruitment for forge work and increased [shipping] orders from the United States, attaching a possible reply to the Minister [of Supply, Sir Andrew Duncan, see CHAR 20/258A/105]. [Copy; given running number 204].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on anti-submarine measures, speculating on the systems used by enemy submarines to detect convoys. [Copy; given running number 200].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the importance of salvage organisation comparing tonnage saved and built. [Copy; given running number 199].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Great George Street [London]) to WSC on oil imports at ports on the South, East, and West Coasts. [Copy; given running number 196a].

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Table indicating the time of the "turn round" of tankers, comparing October-November 1940 with January-March 1941. [Copy; sent with CHAR 20/258B/143].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the reasons for an acceleration in the time of the "turn round" of tankers. [annotated copy; given running number 266A].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on German and Italian shipping losses. [Copy; given running number 268].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on imports in ships in convoy in the six weeks to 29 March. [Copy; given running number 271A].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC attaching a precis of a note given by Sir Walter Layton [Chairman of Executive Committee, Ministry of Supply] to Averell Harriman [United States Special Representative in Great Britain] on British food and other import needs. [Copy; given running number 285A].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on transferring tankers to the Atlantic route and building up import stocks. [annotated copy; given running number 286].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on revising the figures of ships and cargoes lost on route from United States ports. [Copy; given running number 294].

Scope and Contents Series of minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Great George Street [London]) to WSC on: 1. supplies of mustard, "B.B.C.", phosgene, and "D.C." gases, referring to "D.C.(S) (41) 69"; 2. dispersing ships by sending them to East coast ports; 3. possible imports in 1941 and the import forecast for April to August, referring to "I.E. (41) 72" and "I.E. (41) 70"; 4. encouraging the working of night shifts; 5. fitting ships with permanent...

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on a discrepancy over the contents of the ship, the Tai Shan, arriving from North America. [Copy].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on sinkings by U-boats near Dakar [Senegal]. [given running number 314] Minute from WSC to Lindemann marked "Secret" and "Action this day" asking for up to date information on German and British air strengths. [Both minutes on single page].

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Charts showing losses at sea of goods from the United States for January to March, broken down into aircraft and equipment, munitions, raw materials, and food and feeds. [Copies].

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Minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on forecast food imports, referring to "W.P.(R) (41) 39", and a chart showing sinkings [see ?CHAR 20/258B/217-218]. [Copies; given running numbers 315 and 316].

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Telegram from Marshal Stalin to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" arguing that the Soviet Union is entitled to "a minimum of one third" of the Navy and Merchant Marine surrendered by Germany; and requesting that Soviet representatives are given the opportunity of acquainting themselves with details of the surrender.

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Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal and Top Secret" thanking him for his telegram [suggesting that surrendered German ships should be shared between the Allies]; and proposing that this matter forms part of the general discussions which he hopes will take place between the two of them and President Harry Truman as soon as possible.

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Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" repeating the text of his message to Marshal Stalin on the question of dividing the German Fleet between the Allies, proposing that the matter forms part of the general discussions which he hopes will take place between the three of them as soon as possible.

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Telegram from President Harry Truman to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he is "in general agreement" with WSC's reply to Marshal Stalin on surrendered German naval and merchant ships; and that he has no objection to the Three Party meeting between Stalin, WSC and Truman taking place in the Berlin [Germany] area.

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Telegram from Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] to WSC marked "Secret" on the limited transport available for repatriating Canadian troops.