"'Government and the Major Industries'", 22/3/ 1944; PRO CAB87/7 R(44)69
Memorandum by the
Minister of Aircraft Production "'Government and the
Major Industries'" 31/3/ 1944.
23.
Lee op. cit. pp. 11-17.
24.
Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Woolton ( 1959) p. 169.
25.
PRO ADM1/17794 MG(44)28 Memorandum by the
Minister of Aircraft
Production "'The Organisation of Supply'" 21/11/ 1944, quoted in P. Winston 'The British Government and Defence Production, 1943-1950' (unpublished
PhD, University of Cambridge, 1982) p. 118.
26.
Quoted in
Lee op. cit. p. 109.
27.
PRO CAB66/59 WP(44)713 Memorandum by the
Chairman of the
Machinery of Government Committee "'Organisation of Supply'" 20/12/1944.
28.
C. R. Attlee As It Happened ( 1954); Kenneth Harris Attlee ( 1982) p. 402.
29.
Attlee op. cit. p. 154.
30.
PRO CAB129/2 CP(45)177, 178, 181, 197; PRO CAB128/1 CM(45)37
Conclusions 2/10/ 1945.
31.
Hansard (Commons) 5th Series, Vol. 415, Cols. 35-8, 29/10/1945, statement
by Prime Minister.
32.
Williams-Thompson op. cit. p. 8.
33.
The Economist 8/11/1945.
34.
"'Ministry of Supply'" Future No. 3 194719. This article (pp. 17-25) is by far
the most detailed contemporary source on the ministry. I am most grateful
to Nick Tiratsoo for bringing it to my attention.
35.
Sir
Richard Stafford Cripps Democracy Alive: A Selection of Recent
Speeches ( 1946) p. 72.
36.
Board of Trade Journal 26/8/1950, see also 8/9/1951.
37.
Staffs employed in Government Departments February 1950 Cmd. 7887
(PP 1950 Vol. XVI). The figures are for 1st October 1949. The suggestion
made by PEP that for 1949 the number of civil servants doing civil work in
Supply was probably half the number in the Board of Trade and Department
of Overseas Trade, is thus likely to be an underestimate ( PEP Government-Industry Relations ( 1952) p. 98).
38.
Williams-Thompson op. cit. p. 8.
42.
Ibid p. 48. See also p. 166. Of course, many of the other production
ministers were under Cripps's thumb: Wilson at Trade, Bevan at Health
and Gaitskell at Fuel and Power ( Edwin Plowden An Industrialist in the
Treasury ( 1986) p. 22).
43.
Harris op. cit. pp. 342-4.
44.
British General Election Manifestos 1918-1966, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig ( Chichester, 1970). The 1951 Conservative manifesto was
silent on the Ministry of Supply.
45.
PRO DEFE7/282 Report by the Committee on the Organisation and Work
of the Scientific Branches of the Ministry of Supply and Admiralty [Chmn. Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod], 20/4/1951 p. 14.
46.
PRO AVIA54/1464
Minister of Supply "'Some Preliminary Reactions to the
Garrod Report'" 1/2/1952.
47.
John W. Wheeler-Bennett John Anderson, Viscount Waverley ( 1962) p. 352.
48.
Statement Relating to Defence Cmd 6743 (
PP 1945-6 Vol. XX). See also Julian Lider British Military Thought after World War II (Aldershot, 1985)
pp. 509-16.
49.
Alan Bullock Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951 ( 1985) pp. 128, 240. See also: George Peden "'Economic Aspects of British Perceptions of
Power on the Eve of the Cold War'" in J. Becker and
F. Knipping eds. Power
in Europe? Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany in a Postwar World
( Berlin, 1986) pp. 237-60.
50.
Statement on Defence 1950 Cmd 7895 (PP 1950-1 Vol. XVI Annex II).
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