In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.

The Department of Finance were incensed with this and asked the government to tell O ' Broin to resubmit the proposals through the Department of Finance according to the formal procedures of the Civil Service, John A. Costello, the Taoiseach, did so and returned the memo to the Department of Post and Telegraphs.

* Bush asked to explain UK war memo CNN ( May 12, 2005 )

In May 1943, Goerdeler submitted a memo to the Wallenbergs, which he asked them to pass on to the Anglo-Americans outlining his thoughts on the German – Polish border.

Others view the memo as an example of harsh conditions paralegals face in large law firms, where they are often asked to perform demanding, demeaning and often useless tasks assigned by their employers.

" Roberts explained that he had not received the memo with the rules so he showed up with a copy of the script cover and asked Starr to sign it.

A leaked summer 2009 memo from API President Jack Gerard asked its member companies to urge their employees to participate in planned protests ( designed to appear independently organized ) against the cap-and-trade legislation the House passed that same summer.

Time editors sent staffers a computer memo, warning them about calls related to the article, and staffers told Newsweek that " sources named in the story say detectives have asked about their talks with Time ".

Ijaz alleged that former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani asked him to deliver the confidential memo asking for US assistance.

A leaked memo from Fox News vice president Bill Sammon to News staff at the height of the health care reform in the United States debate has been cited as an example of the pro-Republican party bias of Fox News.

For example, a 2005 memo to the staff of the CBC states:

" A memo submitted by the prosecution in February 2011 cited Guandique's harassment of female staff in prison, including soliciting a nurse and masturbating in front of guards.

CEO John J. Mack wrote in a memo to staff " we're in the midst of a market controlled by fear and rumours and short-sellers are driving our stock down.

Those reports cite an internal memo to the bank staff later posted on the internet, dated April 9, 2007, in which the World Bank's general counsel, Ana Palacio, states that the Bank's legal staff was scrutinizing two articles by investigative reporter Richard Behar published on the website of Fox News on January 31 and March 27, 2007.

On 1 February, as the offensive reached its height, he wrote a memo for his staff — which was never delivered — claiming that " The enemy is attempting to confuse the issue ... I suspect he is also trying to draw everyone's attention from the area of greatest threat, the northern part of I Corps.

The best direct evidence that the U. S. was complicit is the memo from NSC staff member Robert Komer to President John F. Kennedy on the night of the coup, February 8, 1963.

Thomas Joscelyn quotes Daniel Benjamin, a former NSC staffer: " The report of the 9 / 11 Commission notes that the National Security staff reviewed the intelligence in April 2000 and concluded that the CIA's assessment of its intelligence on bin Laden and al-Shifa had been valid ; the memo to Clinton on this was cosigned by Richard Clarke and Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director for intelligence programs, who opposed the bombing of al-Shifa in 1998.

Two days later, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill sent a memo to his chief staff officer, General Hastings Ismay, asking him to begin planning an operation for a raid on the islands as soon as possible and stating that he felt that it would be the type of operations that the newly formed Commandos would be suited for.

Although the United States later said that Khadr had been removed from the camp in July 2003, an October 9 memo summarizing a meeting between General Geoffrey Miller and his staff and Vincent Cassard of the ICRC, acknowledged that camp authorities were not permitting the ICRC to have access to Khadr, and three other detainees, due to " military necessity ".

In 2008, she released a memo to employees about her efforts to streamline the company's operations, including eliminating its DVD division and laying off staff.

The primary sources such as the " Sugiyama memo ", and the diaries of Fumimaro Konoe and Koichi Kido, describe in detail the many informal meetings the Emperor had with his chiefs of staff and ministers.

In early July 2007, Newsquest ’ s staff pension scheme was ‘£ 65 million in deficit ’, a company memo to its employees had said, media analyst Roy Greenslade wrote in his 2 July 2007 blog at The Guardian ’ s website.

In November 1993, an internal memo was circulated in the Cabinet Office, informing staff that Humphrey was suffering from a minor kidney complaint and had been put on a special diet.

Pershing's aviation officer, Major Townsend F. Dodd, first used the term " Air Service " in a memo to the chief of staff of the AEF on 20 June 1917.

Christie Hefner released a memo to employees about her efforts to streamline the company's operations, including eliminating its DVD division and laying off staff.

In late September 2006, an internal election campaign memo from Kline to his campaign staff was leaked to The Interfaith Alliance and quickly was picked up by bloggers, resulting in much discussion and controversy.

In the memo, Kline tells his staff how to form a campaign committee for him at each church that will educate and register voters, " encourage people to contribute and volunteer ," and network with their own email lists.

In February 2011, Bev Oda admitted to directing one of her staff to add a handwritten annotation to an already signed Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA ) memo in 2009 that resulted in a funding recommendation for KAIROS being ignored.

A February 2, 2004 memo, summarizing a meeting between General Geoffrey Miller and his staff and Vincent Cassard of the ICRC, Geoffrey Miller said:

* He was the first major world business leader to predict the economic downturn in a memo to staff in July 2008, which was subsequently made public

In October 2004 the Drudge Report published a memo Halperin sent to ABC News staff about coverage of the U. S. presidential election directing them not to " reflexively and artificially hold both sides ' equally ' accountable " and that both John Kerry and George W. Bush used " distortion " in their campaign, but that Kerry ’ s distortions were not " central to his efforts to win.

" However, the Dallas Observer conducted an investigation of the memo, and found that " a number of former Baron & Budd employees say that the information and techniques contained in the memo are widely used, even taught to employees " and that the " memo was not truly an aberration, but a written example of how the product-identification staff works at Baron & Budd.

Sending antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he reasoned, “ made sense only if Moscow intended to use them to shield a base for ballistic missiles aimed at the United States .” On August 10, he wrote a memo to President Kennedy in which he guessed that the Soviets were preparing to introduce ballistic missiles into Cuba.

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

The memo advocated attempting to " turn " captured agents wherever possible, and use them to mislead enemy intelligence agencies.

When plaintiffs tried to use the memo in support of punitive damages, the trial judge ruled it inadmissible for that purpose ( p. 1021, Schwartz study ).

According to a memo discovered by historian Yoshiaki Yoshimi, Prince Higashikuni authorized the use of poison gas against the Chinese on 16 August 1938.

The FBI's strategy was captured in a 1968 memo: " Consider the use of cartoons, photographs, and anonymous letters which will have the effect of ridiculing the New Left.

Christopher Vogler, a Hollywood film producer and writer, wrote a memo for Disney Studios on the use of The Hero with a Thousand Faces as a guide for scriptwriters ; this memo influenced the creation of such films as Aladdin, The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast.

Goldsmith's original memo to the Prime Minister written on 30 January 2003 opined that UN Resolution 1441 did not sanction the use of force and that a further resolution would be required before military action.

In the memo, Lord Goldsmith discussed whether the use of force in Iraq could legally be justified by Iraq's ' material breach ', as established in UN Security Council Resolution 1441, of its ceasefire obligations as imposed by Security Council Resolution 687 at the end of the First Gulf War.

In Italy, where Esperanto received positive treatment in a 1952 memo from the Minister of Public Instruction, Segni, there have been various experiments in the use of Esperanto, above all in the cities of Cesena ( Gianfranca Braschi Taddei ), Cagliari ( Nino Pala ) e Genoa.

To justify its use of waterboarding, the Bush administration issued classified legal opinions that argued for a narrow definition of torture under U. S. law, including the Bybee memo, which it later withdrew.

However, according to a declassified Justice Department memo attempting to justify torture which references a still-classified report of the CIA Inspector General on the CIA's use of waterboarding, among other " enhanced " interrogation techniques, the CIA applied waterboarding to detainees " in a different manner " than the technique used in SERE training:

Hitler advocated a switch in 1934 but took no action until 1941 when a decree in Germany outlawed the use of blackletter in favour of antiqua See an English Translation of Martin Bormann's 1941 memo mandating the use of Antiqua.

At one point in his career, NL president Ford Frick issued a memo to all field personnel requiring them to reduce their use of profanity, a thinly veiled move directed primarily at Reardon.

During the national tobacco litigation, a memo from Philip Morris executive Frank Gomez revealed that Ridenour ( under her maiden name of Amy Moritz ) had offered " to use any information we can provide re the current anti-tobacco onslaught ..." Ridenour wrote many op-eds attacking the filing of lawsuits by state attorneys general against tobacco firms and on tobacco policies, such as " Ironies of the Tobacco Wars ," " Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Could Pave Way for Litigation Tax on Other Industries ," " Latin America Go Home: Tobacco Policies in Foreign Countries Should Be Made by Foreign Countries, Not in U. S. Courts " and " Lawyers ' Fees in Tobacco Case Should Be Capped.

On March 6, 1968, Hubbard issued an internal memo titled " RACKET EXPOSED ," in which he denounced twelve people ( Peter Goodwin, Jim Stathis, Peter Knight, Mrs. Knight, Nora Goodwin, Ron Frost, Margaret Frost, Nina Collingwood, Freda Gaiman, Frank Manley, Mary Ann Taylor, and George Wateridge ) as " Enemies of mankind, the planet and all life ," and ordered that " Any Sea Org member contacting any of them is to use Auditing Process R2-45.

Tryon wrote a memo to the admiralty recommending that the penalties for desertion should be reduced, suggesting that a number of those deserting were of little use to the navy and should be let go, while others who were good seamen, but who had some urgent personal reason why they had deserted, were afraid to return later because of the severe penalties.

Drug use connected with the parties has remained high with the resident doctor Ed Schulhafer sending out a memo to residents following another GHB fatality in 2007 stating: " This tragic incident follows an unprecedented number of GHB overdoses at the Pines Party, July 29.

The Guardian quoted a leaked memo in which the product's manager explained that the company could use " the rationale of health and safety " to design a switched product to " muddy the waters.

Apparently, the first documented use " A-ok " is contained within a memo from Tecwyn Roberts, Flight Dynamics Officer, to Flight Director ( entitled " Report on Test 3805 ", dated Feb 2, 1961 ) in penciled notes on the countdown of MR-2, dated Jan 31, 1961.

In the memo, he forecast three likely results of the war: the removal of any immediate threat to Soviet security, the consolidation of Stalin ’ s dominant position, and the Soviet use of Communist Parties in other countries to serve interests of " Russia as a state as distinct from Russia as a revolutionary notion.