United States (nation)
Found in 1689 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 28 Dec 1931
Letter from Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] (20 Bishopsgate, London) to John Maynard Keynes [later Lord Keynes] asking on WSC's behalf questions on the United States and the Gold Standard and war debts. Annotated by Keynes with his replies. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1931]
Copy of the answers of John Maynard Keynes [later Lord Keynes] to questions by WSC on the United States and the Gold Standard and war debts. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1932
Letter from Sir Walter Layton [later 1st Lord Layton] (the "Economist" (8 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London) to Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] (8 North Street, London) answering questions on: the possibility of the United States going off the Gold Standard, the debts owing to Britain, commercial loans raised in Germany and the immediate future of sterling.
(Untitled), 05 Jan 1932
Letter from Sir Frederick Leith-Ross (Treasury Chambers) to Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] enclosing answers to questions on: the possibility of the United States going off the Gold Standard, the debts owing to Britain, commercial loans raised in Germany and the immediate future of sterling.
(Untitled), 30 Dec 1931
Letter from 1st Lord D'Abernon [earlier Sir Edgar Vincent] (Palazzo Sacchetti, Via Giulia, Rome, [Italy]) to WSC (New York, [United States]) criticising the accumulation of large gold reserves by the United States and France.
(Untitled), 07 Jan 1932
Letter from Sir William Wiseman (52 William Street, New York, [United States]) to WSC (Ambassador Hotel, New York) arguing that political uncertainty, rather than the hoarding of gold by the United States and France, is the real cause of the poor economic situation, and enclosing CHAR 2/186/36-50.
(Untitled), 21 Apr 1932
Cutting from the "New York Sun": report of WSC's speech on the Budget in which he urged Anglo-American co-operation to tackle the world economic crisis.
(Untitled), 22 Apr 1932
Letter from Rene Leon (115 Broadway, New York, [United States]) to WSC congratulating him [on his speech on the Budget in which he called for Anglo-American co-operation to tackle the world economic crisis].
(Untitled), 25 Apr 1932
Letter from Rene Leon (115 Broadway, New York, [United States]) to WSC reporting that the preliminary report of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures will be presented to the House of Representatives and stressing the need for Britain to set a good example on currency matters.
(Untitled), 25 Feb 1932
Edition of the "Congressional Record": remarks on silver prices by Andrew Somers of New York in the House of Representatives. Sent with CHAR 2/186/94.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1932]
Recommendations of the House of Representatives committee on coinage, weights and measures and a resolution calling on the President to call an international conference to consider means of raising commodity prices. Sent with CHAR 2/186/74. Another copy at CHAR 2/186/100.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1932]
Another copy of CHAR 2/186/99.
(Untitled), 12 May 1932
Letter from Rene Leon (115 Broadway, New York, [United States]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/187/113 and commenting on the damaging pursuit of opposite monetary policies by the United States Federal Reserve and the Bank of England.
(Untitled), [May] [1932]
Resolutions to be presented to the United States House of Representatives calling for an international conference to consider means of raising commodity prices and for the reintroduction of silver into the monetary system. Sent with CHAR 2/187/112.
(Untitled), [May] [1932]
Letter from J F Walton recommending the solutions to the world economic crisis put forward in Arendt's book and arguing that none of the factors which helped the United States recover from previous depressions is available now. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), [May] [1932]
Cutting from [? the "Wall Street Journal"]: article by Thomas F Woodlock criticising the United States Government and Congress for refusing to countenance the reduction of debts owed by other countries to the United States.
(Untitled), May 1932
"A realistic approach to the problem of intergovernmental debts", a presidential address to the United States National Industrial Conference Board by Magnus Alexander.
(Untitled), Apr 1932
Report to the United States House of Representatives by the Committee on Banking and Currency on restoring and maintaining the purchasing power of the dollar. Copy sent with CHAR 2/187/161-162.
(Untitled), 02 Jun 1932
Letter from Katharine, Duchess of Atholl (98 Elm Park Gardens, [London]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/187/177-188 and arguing that the dumping of exports in Britain by the Soviet Union is an important cause of the fall of wholesale commodity prices and that it would be in the interests of the United States if Britain put an end to this dumping.
(Untitled), 21 Oct 1941 - 04 Nov 1941
Letter from Eric Seal [former Principal Private Secretary to WSC], member of British Supply Council in Washington [and Deputy Secretary of the Admiralty, United States] to WSC with observations on American attitudes to the war, and on the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States; with letter from John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC] to Clifford Jarrett [Principal Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty] requesting telegram of thanks be sent.
(Untitled), 10 Aug 1941 - 26 Sep 1941
Letter from Josiah Wedgwood to WSC, enclosing a letter from Harold Ickes, United States Secretary of the Interior, to Wedgwood discussing oil supplies to the Soviet Union and Britain; also includes note by Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] on forwarding the letter to the Foreign Secretary, and copy of a reply to Wedgwood by John Colville [Private Secretary to WSC].
(Untitled), 11 Mar 1941 - 12 Mar 1941
Telegram from Edward [the Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] to [1st] Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness, Secretary of State for the Colonies] on his plans to visit the United States. Despatched on 11 March; received on 12 March. Copy.
(Untitled), 15 Mar 1941
Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] (Washington) [?to WSC] on the implications of the Duke of Windsor's [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] proposed US visit; suggests contact with the pro-German [Swedish] financier [Axel] Wenner-Gren should be discouraged. Copy.
(Untitled), 11 Mar 1941 - 16 Mar 1941
Note from "J M" [John Martin, Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC attaching a press summary of the article appearing in Liberty magazine dated 11 March: "The Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] talks of War and Peace".
(Untitled), 16 Mar 1941
Newspaper cutting from the Sunday Dispatch reporting the Duke of Windsor's [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas] interview in Liberty magazine.