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Prime Minister's Office records:

PREM8 Correspondence and papers, 1945-1951

1578 files

Topics include food supply, railways, foreign policy, housing, Germany, armed forces, India. PREM8 is arranged chronologically, and by topic alphabetically within each year, eg 1945, 8/1 - 8/124.

PREM8/101 1945

Scientific research: Sir Henry Tizard's report on future development in weapons and methods of war.

PREM8/109 1945

Tube Alloys: statements on the atomic bomb.

PREM8/110 1945

Tube Alloys: Anglo-USA-Netherlands agreement for the supply of thorium.

PREM8/111 1945

Tube Alloys: uranium deposits in Sweden.

PREM8/112 1945

Tube Alloys: Australian interest in atomic energy.

PREM8/113 1945

Tube Alloys: arrangements with leader of the opposition for limiting Parliamentary questions on atomic energy in the national interest.

PREM8/114 1945

Tube Alloys: memorandum by British group of scientists at Berkeley urging international control of atomic energy.

PREM8/115 1945

Tube Alloys: Professor P M S Blackett's memorandum on atomic energy.

PREM8/116 1945

Tube Alloys: international control of atomic energy.

PREM8/117 1945

Tube Alloys: co-operation between USA, UK and Canadian governments.

PREM8/118 1945

Tube Alloys: Moscow Foreign Minister's meeting, proposed commission for the control of atomic energy.

PREM8/175 1946

White paper on defence policy.

PREM8/361 1946

Tube Alloys: Prime Minister interviewed Sir John Anderson after his return from USA.

PREM8/362 1946

Tube Alloys: invitation by USA Government for British Government to send two observers for atomic bomb tests.

PREM8/363 1946

Tube Alloys: statement on control of atomic energy to be made by Secretary of State for Air at General Assembly of United Nations Organisation.

PREM8/364 1946

Tube Alloys: Official Committee on Atomic Energy.

PREM8/365 1946

Tube Alloys: report of Scientific and Technical Committee of United Nations Commission on Atomic Energy.

PREM8/366 1946

Tube Alloys: Atomic Energy Bill.

PREM8/367 1945-1946

Tube Alloys: co-operation between the UK, USA and Canadian governments.

PREM8/368 1946

Tube Alloys; report from Lord Halifax about his farewell conversation with the President on Tube Alloys co-operation.

PREM8/369 1946

Tube Alloys: Lord Portal's proposed visit to America and Canada.

PREM8/370 1946

Tube Alloys; report recommending Government grants for nuclear physics research equipment for universities be accepted by the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy.

PREM8/371 1946

Tube Alloys: proposed visit to Australia by Professor Mark Oliphant.

PREM8/372 1946

Tube Alloys: atomic energy, uranium supplies.

PREM8/373 1945-1946

Tube Alloys: interrogation of German scientists in UK and their subsequent return to Germany.

PREM8/906 1948

Tube Alloys: extract from Lady Parmoor's letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer enquiring about the organisation for dealing with atomic energy in the UK.

PREM8/907 1945-1948

Tube Alloys: discussions with FM J C Smuts concerning supply of uranium from South Africa.

PREM8/908 1945-1948

Tube Alloys: case of Corby and Primrose acting as agents for Soviet Union to obtain information about tube alloys. Report from Canadian Royal Commission, 1946.

PREM8/909 1945-1948

Tube Alloys: appointment of Lord Portal as controller of atomic energy production.

PREM8/910 1947-1948

Tube Alloys: correspondence between Prime Minister and Minister of Supply on use of official photographs of Harwell for atomic train exhibition.

PREM8/911 1947-1948

Tube Alloys: proposals agreed that research and development work on atomic energy be undertaken.

PREM8/912 1948

Tube Alloys: suggestion by Sir Robert Robinson, that a chemical engineer should be added to the Government's advisory panels on atomic energy.

PREM8/959 1949

Defence (organisation): suggestion to equip certain squadrons of the Royal Air Force with B29s.

PREM8/1092 1947-1949

Tube Alloys: disbanding the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy. Creation of the Atomic Energy (Defence Research) Commission and other bodies.

PREM8/1093 1949

Tube Alloys: suggestion by Minister of Supply that Crown Film Unit be allowed to make a film from the best of the non-secret material about atomic energy. Prime Minister disagreed.

PREM8/1094 1949

Tube Alloys: construction of diffusion plant at Capenhurst.

PREM8/1095 1947-1949

Tube Alloys: UK policy on international control of atomic energy.

PREM8/1096 1949

Tube Alloys: recall of Lord Portal from visits to Brazil for atomic energy talks.

PREM8/1097 1949

Tube Alloys: Minister of Defence forwarding note relating to talk with Senator Brien McMahon on atomic energy development in USA.

PREM8/1098 1949

Tube Alloys: Prime Minister wrote to the Minister of Supply relating to effect on the atomic energy programme of dropping the third pile.

PREM8/1099 1949

Tube Alloys: invitation to USA representatives to see British atomic energy effort.

PREM8/1100 1949

Tube Alloys: UK - US exchange of information on atomic weapons.

PREM8/1101 1949

Tube Alloys: views of Sir Henry Tizard on present atomic energy position and Soviet Union.

PREM8/1102 1949

Tube Alloys: proposed discussions with Canada on collaboration in atomic energy field in event of war.

PREM8/1103 1949

Tube Alloys: development of atomic energy in Australia for industrial purposes.

PREM8/1104 1949

Tube Alloys: enquiry by USA Senate Committee into work of USA Atomic Energy Commission. Possible disclosure of secret documents including Quebec Agreement 1943, and Agreements of 1944 and 1945.

PREM8/1105 1949

Prime Minister's complaint about a press announcement on the production of plutonium at Harwell being made without previous consultation with him.

PREM8/1154 1950

Defence (organisation); letters from FM B L Montgomery to Chief of the Imperial General Staff on the 'Dangerous situation in Europe' and West European defence and memoranda on fighting on Elbe and Holland. Also co-ordination between Montgomery and ministers.

PREM8/1156 1950

Defence (organisation): suggested visit of Prime Minister to Washington for meeting with President Harry S Truman for discussions with USA on international situation, Korea and defence.

PREM8/1157 1950

Defence (organisation): national defence and ability of armed forces to meet an emergency.

PREM8/1160 1949-1950

Defence (organisation): Winston Churchill's comments on Defence Committee papers lent to him by the Prime Minister.

PREM8/1161 1949-1950

Defence (organisation): draft white paper on defence, 1950.

PREM8/1162 1949-1950

Defence (research): defence research and production programmes 1949-1950: Prime Minister's anxiety that problem of submarine menace be considered jointly by Navy and Air Force; service production programmes, 1950-1951; disclosure of defence information.

PREM8/1163 1949-1950

Defence (research): guided weapons research and development: transfer of additional higher grade assistants to the guided weapons programme; comparison of American and British progress on guided missiles; demonstration of experimental guided weapon at Larkhill, Wiltshire.

PREM8/1200 1950

Foreign policy: Prime Minister's visit to Washington for talks with President Harry S Truman; records of Prime Minister's meeting with Canadian Cabinet.

PREM8/1202 1950

Foreign policy: visit of Dean Acheson, US Secretary of State, to London for discussions: tripartite discussions between UK, USA and France.

PREM8/1203 1950

Foreign policy: Foreign Office paper, 'Western European International Organisations' and further paper prepared by the Permanent Under Secretary's committee on the future of Germany.

PREM8/1204 1950

Foreign policy: UK-USA bipartite discussions in London, May 1950.

PREM8/1205 1949-1950

Foreign policy: setting up of a Western Union Defence Co-ordinating Committee of officials for discussions on financial, military and supply questions, for the defence of the Western Powers which was abolished in 1950.

PREM8/1207 1950

France (miscellaneous): notes for use by the Prime Minister when dining with the French Ambassador on 4 Sep 1950 to meet Jules Moch the French Minister of Defence and note of conversation between Prime Minister and French Ambassador on 7 Sep 1950.

PREM8/1244 1950

Navy (general): proposed development of a nuclear fuel submarine, Prime Minister's approval for statement by First Lord of the Admiralty in the House of Commons.

PREM8/1294 1947-1950

Tube Alloys: official publicity on atomic energy: new rules on declassification and publication of technical information; disclosure to the North Atlantic Treaty powers of atomic energy expenditure.

PREM8/1295 1950

Tube Alloys: atomic energy programme: Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Portal; meeting of Atomic Energy (M) Cabinet Committee; proposed visit by Prime Minister to Windscale in Jan 1951.

PREM8/1296 1950

Tube Alloys: new atomic energy establishment: proposed site at Aldermaston near Reading.

PREM8/1297 1950

Tube Alloys: filming of pipeline operations at atomic energy works at Windscale: Prime Minister's opposition to publicity.

PREM8/1298 1950

Tube Alloys: Prime Minister's request for more information about the references in the press to the first large international conference on atomic energy to be held in the UK in Sep.

PREM8/1299 1950

Tube Alloys: press article and photos on Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, called 'BEPO'; press notice on proposal to include a model of BEPO in atomic energy exhibit at British Industries Fair.

PREM8/1300 1950

Tube Alloys: notification by the Minister of Supply of the proposed publication by his department of a booklet on atomic energy.

PREM8/1429 1950-1951

Foreign policy: German contribution to Western defence.

PREM8/1430 1951

Foreign policy: record of conversation between the Secretary of State for War and Gen Dwight D Eisenhower giving the latter's view on the formation of a European Army.

PREM8/1431 1947-1951

Foreign policy: Western Union.

PREM8/1432 1951

Foreign policy: memorandum on points likely to arise during visit to Washington and Ottawa of Foreign Secretary for talks with Foreign Ministers, Dean Acheson and M. Schuman; Foreign Secretary's report to the Cabinet following his visit.

PREM8/1438 1951

Foreign policy: messages exchanged between the Prime Minister and President Harry S Truman on situation in Korea and confirmation of joint policy.

PREM8/1439 1951

Foreign policy: memorandum by the Foreign Secretary on USA policy and risk of provoking war.

PREM8/1546 1950-1951

Tube Alloys: facilities for testing atomic weapons: use of American testing ground at Eniwetok.

PREM8/1547 1951

Tube Alloys: clandestine use of atomic weapons: possibility of atomic attack without formal declaration of war.

PREM8/1548 1947-1951

Tube Alloys: security meeting in London, Jul 1951, for tripartite talks on organisation of atomic energy. Atomic energy personnel security.

PREM8/1549 1951

Tube Alloys: Minister of Supply's wish to publish book on work and problems at Harwell: Prime Minister did not approve on grounds of too much publicity.

PREM8/1550 1951

Tube Alloys: appointment of successors to Lord Portal, Controller of Atomic Energy, and M W Perrin, Deputy Controller of Research: approach to Lord Tedder regarding the former appointment and to Lord Fraser. Appointment of Gen Sir Frederick Morgan.

PREM8/1551 1951

Tube Alloys: article in New York Herald Tribune on UK atomic weapons programme.

PREM8/1552 1951

Tube Alloys: resumption of tripartite collaboration between UK, Canada and US.

PREM8/1553 1950-1951

Tube Alloys: proposed creation of an atomic energy corporation.

PREM8/1554 1945-1951

Tube Alloys: large scale production of atomic energy: use of Harwell, proposal to build gaseous diffusion plant: UK pile, production of plants at Springfields and Risley: approval by Prime Minister for addition of high separation diffusion plant.

PREM8/1555 1951

Tube Alloys: co-operation with Belgium on atomic energy: uranium from Belgian Congo; uranium supplies.

PREM8/1556 1951

Tube Alloys: letter by Lord Cherwell to the Prime Minister about the organisation of work on atomic energy.

PREM8/1557 1951

Tube Alloys: information on nuclear reactions to be made public: BBC broadcast in north regional programme on atomic production establishments in the north of England.

PREM8/1558 1951

Tube Alloys: development of atomic energy in Australia to be raised by Australian Prime Minister at meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers: technical talks on co-operation with UK.

PREM8/1559 1950-1951

Tube Alloys: letter from Prime Minister to Winston Churchill about clause in Quebec Agreement which had been allowed to lapse: question also raised by Mr R Blackburn MP; Prime Minister's meeting with Churchill on 31 Jan 1951.

PREM8/1560 1950-1951

Tube Alloys: note of President Harry S Truman's undertaking on use of atomic bomb: exchange of UK and US records of meetings between Prime Minister and President Truman during his visit to Washington.

PREM8/1561 1948-1951

United Nations Organisation: Foreign Secretary's summary of present position in Military Staff Committee, Atomic Energy Commission and Disarmament Commission.

PREM8/1567 1951

US Ambassador's visit to the Prime Minister to ask about announcement on defence preparations.

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