SPECIAL (TREASURY-EXTRA) FROM WASHINGTON TO FOREIGN OFFICE. iscount Halifax. o. 3508. D. 4.42 a.m. 26th July, 1941. 5th July, 1941. R. 1.25 p.m. 26th July, 1941. Following for Treasury, Board of Trade and Ministry of Supply from Purvis, Brand, Phillips and Keynes. 1. The question of providing British exporters with cotton at price below New Orleans spot equivalent has been further considered. 2. At the meeting of Supply Council, the view was expressed unanimously and with the utmost emphasis, that justifiable allegations to the above effect would be fraught with so much political danger as to jeopardise the whole position of Lend-Leasing non-warlike articles.
- Collection ID
- CAB71
- Document Reference
- CAB 71/4/57
- Document Types
- Memorandum Correspondence
- File Reference
- CAB 71/4
- Former Department Reference
- LP(41) 130
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab71.000004.057
- Keywords
- Civil Consumption Cost of Living Cotton Customs Duties Exports Imports Lend-lease Overseas Trade Prices Subsidies Textiles
- Language
- English
- Locations Discussed
- Brazil India United States of America Washington
- Organizations Discussed
- Foreign Office HM Treasury Lord President's Committee
- Pages
- 3
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Series
- Papers Nos. 76(41) - 158(41)
- Themes
- Rationing Supply Retail Consumer Goods
