South Wales

Region

South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of Cardiff (population approximately 324,800), ...

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Documents about South Wales

Wednesday 3rd July 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Directive from PM on morale to Civil Service. Must "set an example", report those spreading "alarm and despondency"
extract Cabinet rejects request by Chiefs of Staff for east coast evacuation. "Public opinion already somewhat jumpy"
extract Cabinet agrees UK air raid casualty figures will no longer be released. Gives enemy information, might demoralise country
person Alexander Cadogan
person Andrew Greenwood
person Stafford Cripps
person Joseph Stalin
person Malcolm MacDonald
place Gisborne, New Zealand
place Halifax Peninsula
place South Wales
organisation Home Office
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation British Army
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
 

Civil Defence Report No. 19. Nineteenth Report submitted by the Minister of Home Security, covering the period from Midnight, 9th June, 1940 to Midnight, 7th July, 1940.

extract Home Security Minister: Rise in night bombing since mid-June. Daylight raids "on an increasing scale" but damage "slight"
person John Anderson (Australian politician)
place City of London
place Newcastle upon Tyne
place South Wales
place Isle of Portland
place Bristol
place Portsmouth
organisation Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Netherlands)
organisation Home Office
 

Monday 30th September 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet to temporarily suspend Government evacuation of children overseas. Parents still permitted to arrange privately
extract Cabinet cancel upcoming Newmarket race meeting but agrees "restricted number of race meetings should continue"
extract Sir Stafford Cripps in Moscow to "sound" M. Molotov on Soviet reaction to the new Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan
extract War Secretary Eden to consider request that military authorities make soldiers available to help clear London's streets
person Anthony Eden
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Stafford Cripps
person John Anderson (Australian politician)
person Clement Attlee
person Robert Craigie (diplomat)
place Egypt
place South Wales
place Moscow
place Liverpool
place Sudan
place East Anglia
organisation Home Office
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation KEF
 

Wednesday 30th October 1940

Meeting minutes

extract PM: Civilians around target areas "must be made to feel the weight of the war". Italians will "not stand up to bombing"
extract Air Chief: 450 enemy aircraft over UK yesterday, 200 more overnight. Attacks on London, Birmingham, Coventry, Liverpool
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person Malcolm MacDonald
person Kingsley Wood
person Bob Kerslake
person Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
person Clement Attlee
person Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
place Egypt
place Cranborne
place Halifax Peninsula
place South Wales
place Birmingham
place Cairo
place Libreville
place Malta
place Khartoum
place Syria
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
organisation Home Office
organisation RAF Coastal Command
 

Thursday 5th December 1940

Relations with Eire.

extract Minister for Food: Effect in 3 months "so profound" as to render negotiations possible "on our terms"
extract PM Churchill asks Minister for Food for effect of "cutting off of Irish supplies of food for say six months"
extract Cabinet Secretary circulates recent Eire memos. PM De Valera "calculating and egotistical. His first interest is himself"
person John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
place Cranborne
place South Wales
place Liverpool
place Europe
place East Anglia
place Northern Ireland
organisation Royal Navy
organisation Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
 

Payments to Eire.

extract Chancellor presents two plans to force concessions from Irish government. Second "would be in effect economic war"
person Kingsley Wood
place Great Britain
place South Wales
place Northern Ireland
 

Transport of Coal.

extract Anderson: Coal stocks below demand. "Reserves will not meet the situation". Rail disruption, shipping attacks to blame
person John Anderson (Australian politician)
place South Wales
place Birmingham
place Bristol
 

Tuesday 28th January 1941

Food Situation of the United Kingdom. Monthly Report for December 1940.

extract Food Minister: Imports short of projections by 13%. Wheat stocks "falling rapidly", eggs "down to half a week's supply"
place Great Britain
place City of London
place Greece
place South Wales
place Turkey
organisation Advanced Micro Devices
 

Tuesday 18th March 1941

The Coal Position. Monthly Report by the Secretary for Mines covering February, 1941.

extract Mines Secretary: "No further serious difficulty" in meeting current coal consumption will be experienced this winter
place South Wales
organisation New Zealand Treasury
 

Tuesday 29th April 1941

Food Situation in the United Kingdom. Monthly Report for March 1941.

extract Food Minister warns March food losses at sea highest since July 1940 and second highest since the beginning of the war
place City of London
place South Wales
 

Thursday 3rd July 1941

Weekly Resume (No. 96) of the Naval, Military and Air Situation from 12 noon June 26th, to 12 noon July 3rd, 1941.

extract Chiefs of Staff: Fighting continues against Vichy French in Syria "who are putting up skilful and determined resistance"
extract Chiefs of Staff: German forces advancing on the general axis Smolensk-Moscow have reached Minsk
place Great Britain
place Freetown
place Egypt
place Gisborne, New Zealand
place South Wales
place Shanghai
place Sicily
place Malta
place Europe
place Gibraltar
place Tobruk
place Beirut
place Syria
place Libya
place Tripoli
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation German Army
organisation Luftwaffe