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Catalogue description Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Allied Commission for Austria (British Element), Economic Division, and Control Commission for Germany (British Element): Post War Diaries of Lieutenant Colonel J L Prescott, First British Secretary of Bipartite Board
| Reference: | FO 1076 |
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| Title: | Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Allied Commission for Austria (British Element), Economic Division, and Control Commission for Germany (British Element): Post War Diaries of Lieutenant Colonel J L Prescott, First British Secretary of Bipartite Board |
| Description: |
This series consists mainly of diaries kept by Col Prescott during his service with the Control Commissions for Germany and Austria in 1945-48, with a series of annexed papers. Some diary entries go back to 1940 and include the period when Col Prescott was co-ordinating local resources policy for the Allied Forces in North Africa and Italy. The annexes to his diaries include a complete set of all Bipartite Board documents published up to 26 April 1948. |
| Date: | 1940-1948 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
J L Prescott, 1940-1948 |
| Physical description: | 14 file(s) |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
From 1 May 1945 to 25 March 1946 J L Prescott served with the Economic Division of the British Element of the Allied Commission for Austria, and dealt with the allocation of local resources, price control and rationing; from 26 March until April 7 1948 he served with Control Commission for Germany (British Element) and was the first British secretary of the Bipartite Board. |
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