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Serretary 9
Neeting with
State's Unet
Senior Mficials.
Evacuation Plan
Reference was made to requests from Whitehall to prepare
an evacuation plan. Officials present were opposed to this as it
was unrealistic and betrayed a lack of confidence which would do
grave damage when, as was inevitable, it became known. They felt
they could only draw up plans to cover persons with sensitive
information.
Evacuation for all those who could make some claim to
it might mean at least 4 million people. Sir Arthur Snelling thought
it should be possible to give some indication of numbers and
priorities by category without actually preparing a plan. Even this
would be helpful to Whitehall.
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