Economy: Alan Walters diary [E committee on protection - “would not let PM get away with her Jap phobia”][released 2012]
| Document type: | Declassified documents |
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| Source: | Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS3/1/2 |
| Editorial comments: | Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here |
| Importance ranking: | Major |
| Word count: | 165 |
| Themes: | Employment, Monetary policy |
Thursday 28th October 1982
Note 115,000 on YWS - Received from David Stanton an apology for the Institute of Manpower Studies Report
Good letter from Walter Goldsmith in Times against protection. Cabinet ran on for more than an hour overtime.
E Cttee on Protection - Old Protectors lead - Cockfield, Jenkin, Pym + Biffen, then led Cecil P
Letter from PS
Gloom of CBI report too late to affect the by-election of Peckham + Northfield
David Hart - with article on Protection for Times
Ian Gow said Cayzer OK + PM said she hoped I would stay longer.
Dinner with Bob Bee - OK but dreadful Banker from Denmark - sour because I crushed him - and then he sulked
- Splendid man from Maryland National Bank