(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT) 71 ###ET ###.(M) (40)153 WAR CABINET Copy No. ### October, 1940. FOOD POLICY COMMITTEE EXAMINATION OF THE ECONOMIC POSITION OF AGRICULTURE BEFORE THE WAR. JOINT MEMORANDUM BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND, THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT AND THE MINISTER OF FOOD. One of the difficulties that has faced members of the Food Policy Committee in many of their recent discussions on agricultural policy has been the lack of any agreement about the economic position of agriculture in the years immediately preceding the outbreak of the war.