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1.Significant exceptions to this generalisation are Professor W. N. Medlicott, British Foreign Policy Since Versailles, 1968, and Professor F. S. Northedge, The Troubled Giant , 1966 .
2.
The J.P. Committee consisted of the Directors of Plans for each of the three Services, augmented by the full-time Deputies who worked continuously together, and served by a Secretary whom they shared with the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee. Their influence was second only to the Chiefs of Staff in planning for war.
3.
Cab 53/28. All documents noted in this paper are to be found in the Public Record Office , London .
4.Interview with Malcolm MacDonald , July 8, 1972 .
5.
CAB 21/736. 6. CAB 53/30.
6.
E.g. CAB 16/110; CAB 23/79; CAB 116/112; CAB 53/27; CAB 16/182.
7.
CAB 16/112. 9. CAB 53/30. 10. CAB 24/273.
8.
FO 371/22190. 12. CAB 16/182.
9.
Cab 2/6;
K. Felling
, Life of Neville Chamberlain , 1947 , pp. 253 -254 ;
I. Macleod
, Neville Chamberlain , 1961 , p. 178 ; private information.
10.
CAB 32/128. 15. CAB 16/182. 16. Ibid. 17. Adm. 116/3631.
11.
CAB 2/6. 19. CAB 2/6. 20. CAB 64/30. 21. PREMIER 1/346.
12.
CAB 16/181. 23. CAB 21/534. 24. Adm. 116/3631.
13.
Adm. 116/3631. 26. CAB 63/53. 27. CAB 63/53.
14.
CAB 32/128. 29. CAB 63/53. 30. CAB 63/53.
15.
E.g. CAB 53/30; CAB 16/182; Adm. 116/3631; CAB 53/52; CAB 16/183A.
16.
CAB 2/6. 33. CAB 53/30. 34. CAB 24/270.
17.
CAB 63/52; PREMIER 1/276; CAB 2/6. 36. CAB 2/6.
18.
Anthony Eden
, Facing the Dictators , 1962 , p. 540 .
19.
Ibid., p. 471. 39. PREMIER 1/276. 40. CAB 24/275; CAB 23/92.
20.
CAB 16/183A. 42. CAB 2/8.
21.Documents on British Foreign Policy , Third Series , Vol. VIII , No. 338 ; FO 371/23544.
22.
FO 371/23544 was abbreviated and printed in DBFP, 3, VIII, Appendix I, No. 1, Enclosure 1.
23.
DBFP, 3, VIII, Appendix I, No. 2, Encl.; Adm. 1/9909.
24.
CAB 16/209. 47. CAB 16/209. 48. CAB 16/209.
25.
CAB 16/209; Adm. 1/9897; CAB 16/209. 50. CAB 16/209.
26.
CAB 29/160. 52. CAB 16/160. 53. CAB 16/183A.
27.
CAB 53/49; CAB 2/8; CAB 16/209. 55. CAB 2/8; CAB 53/10.
28.
CAB 2/9. 57, CAB 2/9. 58. CAB 2/9.
29.
The files are extensive and may be found in FO 371/22110, 22111, and 22164, amongst other volumes for 1938.
30.
Ribbentrop never succeeded in abolishing German arms shipments to China, but he did reduce them radically; FO 371/23443.
31.
FO 371/23428; FO 371/23465; FO 371/23553. 62. CAB 27/627.
32.
CAB 27/627. 64. PREMIER 1/346. 65. PREMIER 1/346.
33.
CAB 4/27. 67. CAB 4/27. 68. CAB 53/37. 69. CAB 53/37.
34.
CAB 55/12. 71. CAB 55/12. 72. CAB 24/279. 73. CAB 23/94.
35.
CAB 23/94. 75. CAB 23/94. 76. FO 371/23570.
36.
Private sources.
37.
CAB 27/624; CAB 53/49; CAB 53/11; CAB 27/625; CAB 24/287; FO 800/310; CAB 16/183B; DBFP, 3, IX, Nos. 24, 51, 62, 94.
38.
CAB 23/100. 80. CAB 53/50; CAB 53/53.
39.
CAB 2/9; CAB 16/183A. 82. CAB 23/100.