The Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks (CAB 195/8)
Abbreviated designations
These are some of the abbreviations commonly used in the Notebooks.
(Ministers may be referred to either by their initials or their posts, usage is inconsistent)
| A. | Viscount Addison |
| A.B. | Aneurin Bevan |
| A.Cr. | Aidan |
| A.G. | Arthur Greenwood |
| A.V.A. | A.V. Alexander |
| Att. Gen. | Attorney General |
| Att. G. | Attorney General |
| Barnes | Alfred Barnes |
| C.A.S. | Chief of the Air Staff |
| C.E. | J. Chuter Ede |
| C.I.G.S. | Chief of the Imperial General Staff |
| C.J. | A. Creech Jones |
| Ch.E. | Chancellor of Exchequer |
| E.B. | Ernest Bevin |
| E.Sh. | E. Shinwell |
| E.W. | Ellen Wilkinson |
| G.A.I. | G.A. Isaacs |
| G.B. | George Buchanan |
| G.H. | G.H. Hall |
| G.I. | G.A. Isaacs |
| G.T. | G. Tomlinson |
| H.D. | Hugh Dalton |
| H.M. | Herbert Morrison |
| Hynd. | J.B. Hynd |
| J. | Lord Jowitt |
| J.B.H. | J.B. Hynd |
| J.G. | James Griffiths |
| J.J.L. | J.J. Lawson |
| J.W. | John Wilmot |
| L.P. | Lord President of Council |
| M/L | Minister of Labour |
| M/Supply | Minister of Supply and Aircraft Production |
| N. | Lord Nathan |
| N.B. | P.J. Noel-Baker |
| N.E. | Ness Edwards |
| P.L. | Lord Pethick-Lawrence |
| P.M. | Prime Minister |
| P.M. | C.R. Attlee |
| R.S.C. | Sir Stafford Cripps |
| S. | Viscount Stansgate |
| S.G. | Solicitor-General |
| T.W. | T. Williams |
| W. | Lord Winster |
| W.A.J. | Lord Jowitt |
| W.P. | Wilfred Paling |
