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CABINET PAPERS
Complete classes from the CAB & PREM series in the Public Record Office
Series One: PREM 3 - Papers concerning Defence & Operational Subjects, 1940-1945, Winston Churchill, Minister of Defence, Secretariat Papers

Part 11: PREM 3/451-515
(Subject files cover USA, Venezuela, Vulcan, War Department, West Africa, Womens Services and Yugoslavia)

Part 11 concludes our coverage of Churchill’s wartime subject files.  It starts with the very important files on the United States of America and finishes with the material on Yugoslavia

(especially policy towards General Mikailovitch and Marshal Tito).

  • Key topics in the USA files include Munitions and War Production, Destroyers for Bases Agreement, Lend Lease, the British Purchasing Mission to the USA, the Riviera Conference of August 1941 (leading to the Joint Declaration known as the “Atlantic Charter”), the Arcadia Conference of December 1941, and the Argonaut Conference of June 1942.
  • There are also files on Atlantic patrols, Shipping and Food Missions, supplies and aid to the Soviet Union, Air Power, Tube Alloys and the use of the Atomic Bomb, American troops in the UK, the US war effort in the Pacific, and the deliberations between high-level military staff.
  • There is full coverage of meetings of and telegrams exchanged between Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman (see files on USA: Former Naval Person) and discussions with Eisenhower, Hopkins and Harriman.
  • There is much material on the central direction of the Allied War Effort and on the planning of the Peace and Post-War Settlement.

Other significant files are Vulnerable Points (1940-1943), War: Future Conduct of (comprising reviews of the War Position and plans for future Allied Strategy, 1942-1945), Whipcord Operations in Sicily, Women’s Services, Workshop (Pantelleria Operation), and Yeomanry regiments.



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