Includes:

A note where Warren Fisher specifies how the following papers were found in the drawer of his Treasury desk, before handing over to Horace Wilson on 20 May 1939.

Documents prepared for, and correspondence with Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister], John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] and Horace Wilson [civil servant] concerning rearmament, comparative British and German naval and air strength, Czechoslovakia, recommendations regarding taxation, inefficiency of the Foreign Office, and recommendations for departmental organisation.

Also includes text for talks given by Fisher on the BBC Scandinavian service in the late-1940s concerning the history and running of the British Civil Service.