Texts of speeches and memoranda by LSA on subjects including: the world economy, particularly the role of the United States and the Empire; Anglo-American relations; control of international trade, particularly in protecting the Empire; post-war planning, including new housing, social, health care and educational reform and a change in economic policy; policy in Western Europe, relating to Germany as the boundary between the West and Eastern Europe, and the defence of Western Europe; employment policy, as related to imports and exports; setting up the International Monetary Fund and International Commercial Union; commercial policy.

Also includes: correspondence between LSA and Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on faults in the 1939 War Cabinet, LSA's complaint about not being included in it and the organisation of Economic Warfare; notes for LSA's memoirs on Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, and the coming of war in 1941.