ES FOR DURATION HE WAR 1. The Committee had before them a Memorandum by the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney General (L.P.(44) 100) proposing that legislation should be introduced to validate leases made for the duration of the war, or expressed in a form of words which made their determination dependent on the happening of some event (e.g. removal of blackout restrictions) connected with the end of the war. THE MINISTER OF RECONSTRUCTION and the SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES intimated that since their personal interests might be affected by the proposed legislation, they would take no part in the discussion.