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Headings for a speech on agricultural policy produced by the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

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"Argument" on agricultural policy produced by the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

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Notes on agricultural policy produced by the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Interleaved with agricultural publications. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

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Memorandum by the agricultural committee of the Conservative Research Department on the use of a system of quotas to grant Imperial Preference to wheat without recourse to an import duty.

Scope and Contents Memorandum by K Pipe, [Agricultural Correspondent for the Daily Express] sent to A Whelan [Private Secretary to 1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken, owner of the Daily Express] on the letter from J Whittome [passed on by WSC] concerning the state of agriculture. Pipe agrees with much of what Whittome says, but adds that in many instances he speaks from an entirely local viewpoint, as in his figures for bankruptcy among farmers and the costs of beef production. Pipe comments on the...

Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from J Whittome (Eastmoor, Doddington, Cambridgeshire) to Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, thanking her for her stand for the preservation of the agricultural industry, and pointing out the terrible results of the current agricultural policy. He mentions the costs of beef production, which ruins the cattle industry, the chaos and injustice arising from the Potato and Milk Boards, the unemployment caused by mechanisation, and the unfairness of food prices. Covering letters CHAR...

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Memorandum by the Director of the Trade Division, Admiralty, on supplies of wheat and meat, with covering note by WSC, circulating it to the Cabinet "While not accepting all of the propositions advanced...I consider that it deserves careful study" [printed].

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Letter from WSC to Major Albert Braithwaite, thanking him for suggestions on improvements in the agricultural sphere, particularly relating to shortages of labour and building supplies.

Scope and Contents Letter from [David] Roseway [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for War] to [Cecil] Syers [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] suggesting [1st] Lord Perry [Director of Ford Motor Company] for the Ministry of Supply or the Food Defence (Plans) Department as during World War I he was Director of Food Production Department, of the Agricultural Machinery Department (Ministry of Munitions), and of Traction (Ministry of Munitions); encloses copy of letter to Perry promising to alert suitable...

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Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC on distribution of wheat on international basis, with implications for post-war Europe. [First page of telegram at folio 19; see also CHAR 20/43/100-104 ].

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Letter from WSC to the 10th Duke of Beaufort [earlier the Marquess of Worcester] thanking him for his letter about the two types of proposed agricultural cottages which he has asked the Minister of Works to examine, and stating that he enjoyed his visit to Badminton [Gloucestershire] [carbon].

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Letter from Colonel Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy (Maxton, St Boswells [Roxburghshire, Scotland]) to [John] Colville, Prime Minister's Private Secretary, (10 Downing Street) on agricultural labour shortages, blaming problems on the Ministry of Labour. Signed typescript followed by carbon of acknowledgement.

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Correspondence between [Prime Minister's Private Secretaries, John] Colville and "J H P" [John Peck] and H Meadows (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) on allegations from [Colonel] Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy about agricultural labour shortages. Carbon copies and signed typescript.

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Letter from "J R C" [John Colville, Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to Colonel Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy responding to allegations about agricultural labour shortages. Carbon copy.

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Sir Horace Wilson [Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury and official Head of HM Civil Service]; Eric Seal [WSC's Principal Private Secretary]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Sir Alexander...

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Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Addison on the separate responsibilities of the Development Committee and the Agricultural Research Council; the former confined to recommendations to the Treasury of how funds should be distributed.

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Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Addison [Development Commission] enquiring about the outcome of conversations with the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Kingsley Wood] and the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries [Robert Hudson] about their division of responsibility.

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC attaching a draft minute to the Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] on the possibility of a quantity of Northern Ireland potatoes being destroyed. [Copy; given running number 223(B)].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC referring to a memorandum by Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] on destroying Northern Ireland potatoes because of the decline in the pig population. [Copy; given running number 221A].

Scope and Contents Series of minutes from [1st] Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. an improvement in the maximum bomb load; 2. mustard gas bombs; 3. decisions to be taken about munitions and aircraft production, army size, supplying the Soviet Union, and possible theatres of operation, with WSC's reply (13 September); 4. attaching a draft to the First Lord of the Admiralty [A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] and Secretary of State for...

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Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to WSC marked "Top Secret" and "Personal" commenting on conditions in occupied Germany: the agricultural position, the general food situation, coal production, and discharging prisoners of war.

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on attending the Food Policy Committee and discussions on the cheese ration and live-stock policy. [Copy; given running number 256].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the import shortage, livestock reductions, the move towards the basal diet, non-food imports, and the value of animal proteins. [Copy; given running number 253a].

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Letter from WSC to Sir John Sutherland thanking him for his service to the Forestry Commission, on his resignation.

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Letter from WSC to Sir William Jowitt [Paymaster-General] advising discretion on reconstruction plans, for example on agriculture, which may have international implications.