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He ignored my question. "Maybe the Farben leaders were masters of economic warfare, but if I were a judge, I would want to know how you blame a war on men who weren t even in the Army or the foreign office. I d want to know what made Farben any different from, say, DuPont in this country."... 

Note by Edward Bridges (head of the Treasury division dealing with defence and foreign policy issues), 1 Dec. 1937, T 161/779/S.41815, and comment by Fisher on note by Bridges, 12 Jan. 1938, T 161/849/S.42779, TNA. For Treasury attempts to influence policy towards Japan, see Gill Bennett, British policy in the Far East 1933-1936 Treasury and Foreign Office , Modem Asian Studies, 26 (1992), 545-68. David Reynolds, The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance 1937-41 A Study in Competitive Co-operation (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1981), pp. 16-17, 60-2. 

In mid-1959 the Minister of Defence, Sandys, on the advice of his permanent secretary, Powell, established an independent British Nuclear Deterrent Smdy Group, with representatives of the three services, the Foreign Office and the Treasury, under Powell s chairmanship. The group compared Blue Streak with two American ballistic missiles, the submarine-launched Polaris and the air-launched Skybolt. Rising estimates for the costs of research and development and of underground silos hardened the Treasury s opposition to Blue Streak, and the Chiefs of Staff were in favour of a mobile system. Once President Eisenhower had indicated to Macmillan in March 1960 that Skybolt would be available on satisfactory terms, the Defence Committee took the decision to cancel Blue Streak as a weapons system. The vulnerable Thors were taken out of service by the end of 1963. 

Cabinet aircraft programme , note of meeting of ministers, 31 May 1956, Gen 514/ 2nd meeting, PREM 11/1712. Macmillan had sent a copy of an official steering committee report on The Soviet economic offensive to Eden the previous month, and the report had been approved by the Foreign Secretary Foreign Office records, series 371, file 120804 (FO 371/120804), TNA. 

Admiralty Air Ministry Cabinet Office Foreign Office Ministry of Defence Ministry of Supply Prime Minister s Office Treasury War Office... 

Dr. Scheel, Bonn, German Foreign Office, letter to Mr. Stuparek, Jan. 8, 1979, ref. 214-E-Stuparek... 

Round Table figures such as Lazard Brothers Lord Robert Brand, the Marquess of Lothian, Fabian George Bernard Shaw, and the opium-trading Sassoon family congregated to dictate Britain s appeasement policy for the British Foreign Office. 

Amlliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn, Comp. and ed. from documentary evidence, on commission by the Foreign Office, EherNachf., Berlin 1943. 

In the January 26, 1942, letter from the Chief of the Security Pohce and the Security Service (Heydrich) to Under Secretary of State Luther in the Foreign Office, we read ... 

To deal with the final solution (which the document shows to be, at this point, evacuation and the use of Jews as labor force), consultations between experts from the Foreign Office, the Security Police and the Security Service are suggested. Again there is nothing definite... 

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