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War Cabinet: Committees on the Co-ordination of Departmental Action in the Event...
Catalogue reference: CAB 107
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CAB 107
This series consists of minutes of meetings and memoranda of Committees on the Co-ordination of Departmental Action in the Event of War with Certain Countries, the countries being France (following its anticipated occupation by enemy forces) and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAB 107
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Cabinet: Committees on the Co-ordination of Departmental Action in the Event of War with Certain Countries: Minutes and Memoranda
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1940-1942
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of minutes of meetings and memoranda of Committees on the Co-ordination of Departmental Action in the Event of War with Certain Countries, the countries being France (following its anticipated occupation by enemy forces) and its colonial possessions, Italy, Japan, Spain, Bulgaria, Hungary, Portugal, Roumania, and Finland.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Subject and chronological
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- War Cabinet, Committees on the Co-ordination of Departmental Action in the Event of War with certain countries, 1940-1941
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 10 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1969 Cabinet Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Asia
- Europe and Russia
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In 1940 and 1941, a series of committees were set-up by the War Cabinet to co-ordinate departmental action in the event of war with certain countries, and for departments to consider the actions they proposed to take when warned by the Foreign Office that war with a particular country was inevitable within twenty hours, and after war had been declared. The committees were short-lived, meeting on only a few occasions, and in some cases not at all (memoranda only). Foreign Office officials chaired the committees concerned with France, Japan and Portugal. The committee on Italy was chaired by Sir Edward Bridges (Secretary of the War Cabinet) and Sir Horace J Wilson (Permanent Secretary to the Treasury), while the committee on French Colonial Possessions was chaired by the War Office. The other five committees (Spain, Bulgaria, Hungary, Roumania and Finland) did not meet.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3914/
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