§ 45. Mr. BUCHANasked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the publication of the minutes of permanent officials of the Civil Service in British Documents on the Origins of the War; and whether it is his intention that this practice should be extended to cover the War period and after?
§ The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)No, Sir; I consider that the circumstances leading up to the Great War, like the Great War itself, were unique in history, and the publication of the relevant documents should therefore be entrusted to independent editors, and should he absolutely complete. I think it, however, most undesirable that the minutes of permanent officials should, in normal circumstances, be published.