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In a report to the British Cabinet, that they “ definitely of the opinion that, in our own interest, we should accept this offer of Herr Hitler ’ s while it is still open ... If we now refuse to accept the offer for the purposes of these discussions, Herr Hitler will withdraw the offer and Germany will seek to build to a higher level than 35 per cent ... Having regard to past history and to Germany ’ s known capacity to become a serious naval rival of this country, we may have cause to regret it if we fail to take this chance ...”.
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In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.
Author Jerome Clark argues that the Jacko Affair, involving an 1884 newspaper report of an apelike creature captured in British Columbia, was a hoax.
* British Steel Corporation, 1988 Competition Commission report
* British Steel plc and C Walker & Sons ( Holdings ) Ltd, 1990 Competition Commission report
The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
In January 1921, the British Labour Commission produced a report on the situation in Ireland which was highly critical of the government's security policy.
" On the publication of the Saville report the British prime minister, David Cameron, made a formal apology on behalf of the United Kingdom.
The report stated that British soldiers had concocted lies in their attempt to hide their acts.
The report states, contrary to the previously established belief, that no stones and no petrol bombs were thrown by civilians before British soldiers shot at them, and that the civilians were not posing any threat.
The report concluded that an Official IRA sniper fired on British soldiers, albeit on the balance of evidence his shot was fired after the Army shots that wounded Damien Donaghey and John Johnston.
The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.
The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.
According to a report in the British Medical Journal, use of DDT in Mozambique " was stopped several decades ago, because 80 % of the country's health budget came from donor funds, and donors refused to allow the use of DDT.
* Failing in his role as fast armoured scout to report to Jellicoe the exact position of the German ships he encountered, or to keep in contact with the German fleet while he retreated to the main British Grand Fleet.
The report to the European Parliament points out that interception of private communications by foreign intelligence services is not necessarily limited to the U. S. or British foreign intelligence services.
After the British occupation of New York City, spies were sent to Staten Island and Long Island, New York to observe and report on movements of specific British garrisons and regiments.
A report on the camera was published in the British Photographic News on February 28, 1890.
" A British House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee later issued a report that largely exonerated the scientists.
In their original committee report on hypnotherapy, the British Medical Association ( BMA ), likewise, made a point of condemning the occult theories of Mesmerism and sharply distinguishing them from hypnotism.
After two years of study and research, its final report was published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ ), under the title ‘ Medical use of Hypnotism ’.
According to a statement of proceedings published elsewhere in the same edition of the BMJ, the report was officially ‘ approved at last week ’ s Council meeting of the British Medical Association .’ ( BMA Council Proceedings, BMJ, April 23, 1955: 1019 ).
In 2001, the Professional Affairs Board of the British Psychological Society ( BPS ) commissioned a working party of expert psychologists to publish a report entitled The Nature of Hypnosis.
In Afghanistan in 2009, the British Army was forced to commission a report into the sexuality of the local men after British soldiers reported the discomfort at witnessing adult males involved in sexual relations with boys.
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His official report back to the Cabinet categorically stated that the Zionists did not want " to set up a Jewish Republic or any other form of state in Palestine or in any part of Palestine ".
* Maldives Holds Cabinet Meeting Underwater to Highlight Danger of Global Warming-video report by Democracy Now!
After a heated argument in Bismarck's office Wilhelm, whom Bismarck had allowed to see a letter from Tsar Alexander III describing him as a " badly brought-up boy ", stormed out, after first ordering the rescinding of the Cabinet Order of 1851, which had forbidden Prussian Cabinet Ministers to report directly to the King of Prussia, requiring them instead to report via the Prime Minister.
According to the report of the Paul Volcker Committee, between April and December 2004, Kofi Annan ’ s then Chef de Cabinet Iqbal Riza authorized thousands of UN documents shredded including the entire chronological files of the Oil-for-Food Programme between the years 1997-1999.
Various members of the U. S. Cabinet must report on a regular basis about any measures that U. S. federal departments takes to make the Sudanese Government comply with the measures in the Act.
In 2004, the Joint Committee ( of both the House of Commons and House of Lords ) tasked with overseeing the drafting of the proposed Civil Contingencies Bill, published its first report, in which, amongst other things, it suggested amending the bill's clauses that grant Cabinet Ministers the power " to disapply or modify any Act of Parliament " as overly wide, and that the bill should be modified to preclude changes to the following Acts, which, it suggested, formed " the fundamental parts of constitutional law " of the United Kingdom ( names are shown as they appear in Hansard: ):
The Cabinet collectively decides governmental matters after hearing the report of the head of the relevant ministry.
Multi-volume report for the UK Government ’ s Cabinet Office.
In December 2011, the Cabinet Office confirmed that the commission will be formed in February 2012 and is expected to report in Spring 2013.
On 28 April Cabinet considered the medical reports, and asked the Lord Chancellor, Lord Jowitt, to prepare a report for its next meeting.
" A RAF Intelligence report in late October 1940 circulated to all pilots and their squadrons, with copies to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and the War Cabinet, declared: ' The manoeuvrability of the CR. 42s, in particular their capacity to execute an extremely tight half roll, has caused considerable surprise to other pilots and undoubtedly saved many Italian fighters from destruction.
The reorganisation brought about the fusion of the old Prime Minister's Office and other Cabinet Office teams, with a number of units ( including the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit ) now report directly into the Prime Minister's Office.
Cabinet Committees will often discuss matters referred to them by Cabinet itself, and then report back the results of their deliberation.
Its report, scheduled for release by October 2003, has not yet been delivered to Cabinet or made public.
During his time at the Cabinet Office, the Power of Information Taskforce examined the case for freer access to Government data, culminating in a report and a competition, ShowUsABetterWay, which gave a £ 20, 000 prize for the best idea for a website that used Government data in innovative ways.
Article 18. 1 of the Law on Government, states that " The Cabinet Office is the working office of the Government, the Cabinet Office shall be headed by a Cabinet member, and the Chief of the Cabinet Office shall report to the Prime Minister ”.
His report impressed the Secretary of State for India, Leopold Amery, who persuaded Wingate to remove the recriminations in the paper, and then passed it to the War Cabinet and Winston Churchill.
Other Ministers are categorized as Union Cabinet Ministers, who are heads of the various Ministries ; Ministers of State, who are junior members who report directly to one of the Cabinet Ministers, often overseeing a specific aspect of government ; and Ministers of State ( Independent Charges ), who are junior members that do not report to a Cabinet Minister.
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