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Conclusion WM (40) 71 N Chamberlain J Simon S Hoare W Churchill K Wood Halifax Chatfield...

Catalogue reference: CAB 65/6/16

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This record is about the Conclusion WM (40) 71 N Chamberlain J Simon S Hoare W Churchill K Wood Halifax Chatfield... dating from 18 March 1940 in the series War Cabinet and Cabinet: Minutes (WM and CM Series). It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CAB 65/6/16

Date

18 March 1940

Description
Record type
Conclusion
Former reference
WM (40) 71
Attendees
N Chamberlain
J Simon
S Hoare
W Churchill
K Wood
Halifax
Chatfield
O Stanley
Hankey
J Anderson
C Newall
A Eden
D Pound
W Ironside.
Agenda
1. The Air Situation - Attacks on East Coast shipping; 2. The Naval Situation - Air Attack on the Fleet at Scapa, 16th March - Proposals for counter-action - Shipping losses - Soviet S.S. Mayakovsky - Practicability of Naval concentration in the Mediterranean; 3. The Military Situation; 4. Italian-German Relations - Meeting between Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini; 5. U.S.S.R. - Forthcoming interview of the Soviet Ambassador at the Foreign Office; 6. Western Front - Possible German attack on the Netherlands or the Netherlands and Belgium; 7. Iron Ore - German imports from Sweden; 8. Supreme War Council - Proposal for a Meeting; 9. Soviet-Finnish Treaty - Need for action to meet the situation created - Views of the French Government; 10. Finland - Suggested contribution towards economic reconstruction; 11. Assistance to Finland - The Prime Minister's Speech in the House of Commons; 12. Assistance to Finland - Stoppage of military supplies - War material loaded in ships still in British Ports; 13. Turkey - Staff Conversations; 14. Resume by Chiefs of Staff - Frequency of submission; 15. Departmental Reports; 16. War Finance - Result of First War Loan - New minimum prices for gilt-edged securities
Related material

For Resume by Chiefs of Staff, see WP (40) 97 CAB 66/6

Separated material

For Western Front, see Confidential Annex (formerly Secretary's Standard File) WM (40) 71 (6); Iron Ore from Sweden, see Confidential Annex (formerly Secretary's Standard File) WM (40) 71 (7)

CAB 65/12

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

WM (40) 71

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CAB 65

War Cabinet and Cabinet: Minutes (WM and CM Series)

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