Saturday, June 25, 2011

                                                                   
Prime Minister to Home Secretary, 2 April 1941


"I see a note in the Daily Telegraph that you are shortly going to make a statement to Parliament on the future of horse-racing.  Will you kindly let me know beforehand what you think of saying?  If anything were done which threatened to terminate horse-racing in time of war or ruin the bloodstock it would be necessary that the whole matter should be thrashed out in Cabinet first."