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DEN.

Previous Reference: Cabinet 32 (28), Con- clusion 1).

PAQ.

Previous Feference: Cabinet 37 (28), Con- clusion 7).

(vi)

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,

(Until August 26th);

The Lord President of the Council,

(In Scotland);

The Lord Chancellor, (Until August 16th); The Chancellor of the Exchequer;

The Home Secretary;

The Secretary of State for War, (except

from August 8th to the end of the month); The Secretary of State for Air, (except

during the ten days from August 8th); The First Lord of the Admiralty; The Minister of Health, (In Scotland); The President of the Board of Trade; The President of the Board of Education; The Secretary of State for Scotland,

(In Scotland);

The First Commissioner of Works, (Until

August 16th);

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, (Until his departure for Geneva, towards the end of the month).

All Members of the Cabinet were asked

to keep the Secretary of the Cabinet informed as to their movements and

addresses during the Recess.

(vii) The Cabinet were reminded of the

possibility that decisions of urgency might conceivably be required in

connection with

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The Situation at Aden;

The Iraq Frontier, which is the subject at this moment of Sir Gilbert Clayton's negotiations.

The Ministers at the heads of the Departments mainly concerned, namely, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Secretary of State for Air, were asked to give authority to their Departments to carry on departmentally in the absence of their respective Ministers

on the understanding that they should

refer to the Prime Minister or whoever

was acting for him

3.

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