(Action this Day) Prime Minister to Lord Woolton and Minister of Agriculture, 14 June 1941


"I was very glad to hear from you that the twelve hens scheme would be abandoned in favour of 'No official food for more than twelve hens unless you come into the public pool.'  'Public chicken-food for public eggs.'


2. Have you done justice to rabbit production?
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4. I view with great concern any massacre of sheep and oxen."