⁵⁰⁶ ‘Written on incomplete information. I left at 11:30 prime minister, & Casey put the final touch at 1.30 a.m.’ All footnotes in appendix are A. L. Kennedy's and are reproduced as they appear in the Clipping-Books.

⁵⁰⁷ ‘Begun at 10.30 pm, on receipt of the news’.

⁵⁰⁸ ‘Middle para. Rest written by Casey’.

⁵⁰⁹ ‘Middle part by Casey’.

⁵¹⁰ ‘The Dimitroff leader produced quite a crop of supporting letters, & notices in other papers.’

⁵¹¹ ‘This leader caused annoyance at the F.O. (Vansittart) as it propounds a policy unwelcome to them. (Their one idea is to keep in with France).’

⁵¹² ‘Some of above by Graves.’

⁵¹³ ‘Written by me instead of Graves, who was out to dinner.’

⁵¹⁴ ‘GD's idea.’

⁵¹⁵ ‘Written after a talk with Eden.’

⁵¹⁶ ‘Following a leader by GD, written 2 days before on the main issue.’

⁵¹⁷ ‘A poor hurried thing!’

⁵¹⁸ ‘A short leader by me converted into a first by Braham.’

⁵¹⁹ ‘Written impromptu!’

⁵²⁰ ‘As much GD's as mine, almost.’

⁵²¹ ‘A short leader on above was first written by somebody else, which I thought rather washy. And I thought we were missing an opportunity. So GD suggested treatment as above, by me.’

⁵²² ‘Much of these leaders is being projected nightly into Germany by the BBC.’

⁵²³ ‘… apparently the Memel leader pleased Downing Str v. much, acc: to GD.’

⁵²⁴ ‘This leader, with its slight qualification of the support offered to Poland, has caused annoyance in the F.O. & an outburst of lectures at our expense in other papers - notably the D.T.

In point of fact I had a talk with Cadogan on the subject the day before writing it - but then GD & I made up our own minds.’

⁵²⁵ ‘Considerably amplified by B-Ward - it was originally written for a second leader.’

⁵²⁶ ‘Rest by Graves [ie after ‘four suspected Chinese gunmen’].’