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File contains items given to Gordon MacDonald to brief him on Newfoundland. It includes a report on Newfoundland by the chairman of the Parliamentary goodwill mission which visited the island in 1943 and which comprised Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, Sir Derrick Wellesley Gunston and Charles George Ammon. The report includes notes on the possible future constitutional status, health, agriculture, education, housing, natural resources, taxation, as well as the railway, steamships and local government. The file also includes a collection telegrams between London and St Johns, send in 1942 making arrangements for the visit of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Clement Attlee. Included is a note to Gordon MacDonald describing the contents as 'sensitive' and asking for them to be returned.

File comprises a typed document, entitled "Newfoundland A Memorandum by A. P. Herbert Esq MP", one of the members of the Parliamentary Goodwill Mission which visited Newfoundland in 1942. It contains his observations on the economy, education, religion, industry, taxation as well as options for the governance of the dominion. He includes an option for Newfoundland to become part of the United Kingdom but with home rule. He observes that this would be similar to the status of Northern Ireland but warns against making this comparison in public.