Includes: a letter from David Eccles; an issue of Hansard (1947) with a speech by Eccles on food subsidies; a press cutting from the Manchester Guardian, reporting a speech by Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso], former leader of the Liberal Parliamentary Party, on a Liberal revival; Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International] on an article by J B Priestley; a press cutting from the Sunday Pictorial, with Priestley's article on the irresponsible power of the United States; a press cutting from the Manchester Guardian on Konrad Adenauer, leader of the Christian Democratic Party and his policies as future Chancellor of West Germany [later part of Germany]; a press cutting from the Times on Conservative housing pledges; a copy of the Observer, with an article on the forthcoming General election (1949); a note on the Labour Party's planned economic programme before the General election; verses and illustrations by Frank Calderon on the Labour Party's economic pledges; notes on Labour's opposition to the Gold Standard Bill (1925); brief speech notes [by WSC]; a petition from City of London merchants against protectionism (1820).