Includes: news-letter and issue of the BEPO journal, the Empire Producer; correspondence with Reginald Winter, Secretary of BEPO, and Charles Ponsonby, Chairman; reports from the preparatory committee of the United Nations Trade and Employment Conference at Geneva [Switzerland]; memorandum on BEPO's post-war programme; memorandum by BEPO and the Tobacco Federation of the British Empire on the importance of preferences in the Dominion and colonial sugar, wines and spirits, canned and dried fruit, coffee and tobacco industries.