Correspondents on the 1945 loan to Britain from the United States include: Sir William Larke; 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Willey]; Robert Boothby on subjects including differences between Britain and the United States over the agreement, the sterility of the Conservative leadership and concerns about the views of Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos] (4); Thomas Balogh [Oxford University Institute of Statistics]; Charles Fay, Cambridge University Reader in Economic History; James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip], commenting on misleading statements on Preference by Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; 1st Lord Maugham; Ralph Rayner; Brendan Bracken; J L Garvin; [Edward] Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer; George Heaton-Nicholls [High Commissioner for South Africa in London]; Edward Beddington-Behrens; Oliver Stanley; 1st Lord Bennett; 1st Lord Catto [Governor of the Bank of England] on bringing Newfoundland [Canada] into the sterling area; 1st Lord Nuffield [earlier William Morris] on the chances of equalling pre-war export figures; Sir Halford Mackinder.

Also includes: report by Ronald Russell [Research Secretary, Empire Economic Union] on an economic conference in Geneva [Switzerland]; text of an interview with LSA by T E Utley [Peter Utley], the Observer, on the agreement's effect on Imperial Preference; extracts from the hearings of the American Senate Committee on Banking and Currency; reports of the committee of the 1946 International Trade and Employment Conference; American Chamber of Commerce in London pamphlet on American participation in British industry.