1. On the Central Economic Information Service, see A. Cairncross and N. Watts, The Economic Section 1939–1961: A Study in Economic Advising, London, Routledge, 1989, pp. 15–23.
2. A. Cairncross, ‘Ely Devons: A Memoir’, in A. Cairncross (ed.), Papers on Planning and Economic Management, by Ely Devons, Manchester University Press, 1970, p. 6.
3. See his own account of the background to this mission in A. Cairncross, A Country to Play With: Level of Industry Negotiations in Berlin1945–46, Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 19–25.
4. A. Cairncross, Living with the Century, Fife, Countess of Moray’s Press, 1998, pp. 127–8, 151–3.
5. Scottish Council, Report of the Committee on Local Development in Scotland, Edinburgh, Scottish Council, 1952, p. 29.