Description of series:
This series consist of two files, one of inward cables and one of outward cables, relating Sir Earle Page's visit to London in September-December 1941. In September 1941, the Fadden Government appointed Page as special envoy to the British War Cabinet. However, before he arrived in London Curtin's Labor Government came into office. Curtin retained Page's appointment, and he stayed in the United Kingdom until mid 1942.

The cables include Page's reports of his attendance at meetings of the British War Cabinet, discussions about the situation in the Far East, Japanese aggression, the appointment of V G Bowden as Official Representative of the Commonwealth in Singapore and Fadden's election as Leader of the Opposition.

The cables are numbered in the top right hand corner, and are arranged in chronological order. They were transferred to archival custody by the Prime Minister's Department in 1953 (ref. RWC2/1/50). The series description was revised in November 2002 as part of the Prime Ministers Papers' Project.

Source:
Grattan, Michelle, ed, Australian Prime Ministers (Sydney, New Holland, 2000), p173