Letter from [WSC] to Sir Maurice Hankey asking whether there is a Committee of Imperial Defence paper which shows the reduction of Navy and scrap tonnage after the war, and asking for details on the claim of the United States that they reduced their battle fleet after the war for the sake of parity with Britain. Typescript carbon copy.

Reprint from the "Daily Telegraph": article claiming that the Royal Navy is greatly inferior in size to the United States Navy.

Letter from [WSC] to Frederick Guest describing how the opposition in the Conservative Party to the granting of Liberal peerages prevents Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] from offering Guest one, advising Guest to join the Conservative Party, where WSC will be able to help him procure a suitable seat, and discussing the arrangements for his (WSC's) tour of Canada, the United States and South America. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Lord Milner [earlier Sir Alfred Milner] to Lord Stamfordham [earlier Sir Arthur Bigge] asking him to get the King to agree to Milner's acceptance of the United States Distinguished Service Medal despite the Foreign Office regulation that Ministers of the Crown cannot accept foreign decorations. Argues that military co-operation with the United States during the war was an exceptional case. Typescript copy.

Letter from "Archie" [Sir Archibald Sinclair] to WSC praising his speech [at a meeting of the Anglo-Saxon Fellowship on 4 July] upholding the ideal of Anglo-American friendship and the democratic principles for which the war is being fought.

Letter from Field-Marshall Sir Douglas Haig [later Lord Haig] (General Headquarters, British Armies in France) to WSC reporting that the Army is in determined mood and that WSC's old division under Brigadier-General Hugh Tudor is doing wonders. Thanks WSC for the "splendid assistance" given by the Ministry of Munitions.

Letter from James Hamilton Lewis, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State, to WSC praising his recent speech on Anglo-American friendship and reporting that he has referred to it in a speech of his own. Signed typescript.

Letter from John W Davis [United States Ambassador] to WSC citing a number of appointments to agencies to refute WSC's suggestion (in an article in the Sunday Herald) that the Republicans were not given a role in the conduct of the war in the United States.

Letter from WSC (War Office) to the United States Ambassador [John W Davis] thanking him for his letter [pointing out that the Republicans had been given a larger role in the conduct of the war in the United States than WSC had suggested]. Typescript copy.

Cartoon from Life showing two figures representing [? the United States] and [? parts of Europe susceptible to Bolshevism], the latter ungraciously partaking of a meal of "citizenship", "liberty", "opportunity", "education" and "justice" supplied by the former.

Letter from [WSC] to Bernard Baruch promising to study his book on the economic sections of the Treaty of Versailles, looking forward to visiting Baruch in the United States and suggesting that a small association of leading men from Britain and the United States should be formed to promote close ties between the two countries. Typescript copy.

Pamphlet: "The verdict of public opinion on the Japanese-American question." Includes the opinions of people from several parts of the United States. Compiled by Cornelius Vanderbilt Junior. Sent with CHAR 2/115/80.

Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to Lord Curzon on a memorandum on the supply of armoured cars to King Hussein of the Hejaz and the risk that the British civil aviation mission to Japan could upset relations with the United States. Typescript copy.

"The Valve World", the staff magazine of Crane Co of Chicago [United States], containing an article on the cancellation of debts owed to the United States. Sent with CHAR 2/116/121 .

Letter from Henry Wickham Steed (The Times) to WSC describing anti-British feeling in the United States over Ireland and stressing the urgent necessity of reaching a constitutional settlement there.

Letter from W Bourke Cockran to WSC, suggesting that he should visit the United States and observe the Presidential Election.

Telegram from [Bernard] Baruch to WSC offering to arrange the visit by the Lyttons [? 2nd Lord Lytton and Pamela, Lady Lytton, earlier Pamela Plowden] to the United States Senate, commenting on David Lloyd George's New Deal policies being ill-received in the United States because of "slighting remarks regarding [Woodrow] Wilson and American war efforts" and hoping for a world trade revival as governments enlarge expenditure.

Letter from Rene Leon (40 Wall Street, New York [United States] to WSC, enclosing an article [not present], and commenting on the importance in the United States of the general stabilization of currencies, and regretting that Neville Chamberlain does not seem to share that view, as this results in a lack of Anglo-American co-operation.

Newspaper cutting from the New York Herald-Tribune, "Today and Tomorrow: the NRA and After", by Walter Lippman, on the United States National Recovery Administration.

Letter from Bernard Baruch (597 Madison Avenue, New York [United States]) to WSC, enclosing notes on the New Deal [see CHAR 2/235/5 and CHAR 2/236/6-10] and commenting on the world-wide trend towards greater distribution of wealth, as in the Soviet Union, the United States and Europe. Annotated "In article box - new American articles".

Letter from an unknown correspondent to Bernard Baruch, enclosing notes on the New Deal [see CHAR 2/236/6-10] in reply to correspondence relating to an article by WSC on the New Deal. [Covering letter CHAR 2/236/3-4]. Unsigned copy.

Notes on the United States New Deal and National Recovery Administration, in reply to correspondence relating to an article by WSC on the New Deal. [Covering letters CHAR 2/236/3-4 and CHAR 2/236/5]. Unsigned.

Letter from "Bernie" [Bernard Baruch] (Georgetown, South Carolina [United States]) to WSC, on industrial mobilization, price freezing, and prevention of profiteering in case of war. Annotated "Material for American book".

Letter from Rene Leon (40 Wall Street, New York [United States]) to WSC, enclosing 2 memoranda on Britain and the United States, and the influence of silver and the yen on the American economy [see CHAR 2/236/17 and CHAR 2/236/18-19].