Scope and Contents Includes: briefing on Europe and the Inter-Governmental Conferences from [William] Tristan Garel-Jones, 1991; submission by James Molyneaux, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, to the Strand I talks on Northern Ireland, 1991; press material from the Information Committee for the Iraqi Opposition, 1991; speech by Ion Iliescu, President of Romania, to the last meeting of the Warsaw Treaty Political Consultative Committee, 1991; transcript of a witness seminar on the building of the Berlin...

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Annotated text of speech by [? LSA] on the state of the Anglo-French Entente after Germany sent a warship to Agadir [Morocco].

Scope and Contents Typescript speaking notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on subjects including: naval armaments; detailed explanation of the naval estimates and predictions; increase of German naval power; the importance of maintaining the fleet at the minimum level "consistent with full security"; plans for construction of ships which will be modified to follow German naval construction; docks; oil; aviation and shipbuilding capacity; the importance of a strong fleet to Great Britain; plans for the...

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Papers on British treaties with other governments, including: written questions in Parliament by JEP and extracts from Hansard; copy of an agreement with Cuba on commercial debts; copy of an exchange of notes with the Lebanese Government on a British contingent for the multi-national forces in Lebanon; copy of an exchange of notes with Belize of the continuing presence of British forces in Belize.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Harold Cox; Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] on the revision of the French tariff and the Gambia-Muscat [later Muscat and Oman] negotiations (2); Sir Francis Bertie [British Ambassador to France]; Herbert Asquith [Chancellor of the Exchequer, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the revision of wine duty. Also includes: a memorandum on commercial relations with France by WSC, on imports with false origins, the wine surtax, wine duty and the French surtaxe...

Scope and Contents Includes: a Board of Trade memorandum and an annotated Foreign Office memorandum by Ailwyn Parker on the Baghdad [Mesopotamia, later Iraq] Railway; the report of the Inter-Departmental Baghdad Railway Committee; the report of the Board of Trade Commercial Intelligence Committee on the conditions and prospects of British trade in Mesopotamia; the Board of Trade report on the proposed establishment of sample rooms in the Persian Gulf; a note by WSC on Sir William Willcock's proposals for the...

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Includes: minutes of statements made by: Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; [1st Lord] Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] Secretary of State for India; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty; and Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] Secretary of State for Air on military issues including transportation of artillery shells, and the defence of Shanghai and British property.

Scope and Contents Includes: minutes of statements made by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary; Lord Balfour, Lord President of the Council; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War; Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] Secretary of State for Air; and William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty on the situation in China.Also present: a report by the Chiefs of Staff on the situation in China and sanctions; observations by George Mounsey, Arthur...

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Includes: the minutes of the committee on the situation in China, and on the publication of the Imperial Conference's discussions on defence.

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of statements by various individuals including; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty; and Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade. Also includes a memorandum by Amery on conflicting oil...

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Includes minutes of Cabinet meetings recording decisions on various subjects including: foreign affairs in the Soviet Union, Afghanistan, China, Sudan and India; currency in the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; the naval construction programme; reparations and affairs in Germany; unemployment; estimates for the fighting services; the Washington Hours convention; safeguarding industries; colonial affairs; Anglo American relations and arbitration treaties with the United States.

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Includes minutes of Cabinet meetings recording decisions on various subjects including: unemployment and unemployment insurance; immigration from Ireland; petrol prices; foreign affairs in China, Germany, India; the United States and the prohibition treaty; the reduction and limitation of armaments; the proposed Baghdad [Iraq] to Haifa [Israel] railway and pipeline; radium research; the Channel Tunnel; the report of the Commission on East Africa; and the budget.

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of Cabinet meetings recording decisions on various subjects including: reduction and limitation of armaments; imperial preference; general government policy; the proposed Baghdad [Iraq] to Haifa [Israel] railway and pipeline; the political situation in Iraq; unemployment; reparations against Germany; chemical warfare policy; the taxation of naval allowances; migration from Ireland; and the safeguarding of industries.Also includes a copy of a speech by King George V on the...

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Includes minutes of Cabinet meetings recording decisions on various subjects including: measures to combat unemployment including emigration; a multi-lateral treaty with the United States; foreign affairs in Iraq, India, the Soviet Union, China, Egypt and Germany; the reduction and limitation of armaments; issues in Scotland including the slaughter of animals and the influx of emigrants from Ireland and issues in the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; and speeches by King George V.

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of Cabinet meetings recording decisions on various subjects including: the illness of King George V and speeches by the King; reparations and Allied debts; foreign affairs including China, the Persian Gulf, the Soviet Union, Iraq and Germany; measures to combat unemployment including emigration; rating reforms; Indian contributions to the home effective charges of the British army; issues in the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; relations with the United States; the naval...

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Material on the Belgian annexation of the Congo including: telegrams and memoranda from Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary]; telegrams from [Etienne] Davignon, the Belgian Foreign Minister; a memorandum on taxation and currency; reforms promised by Belgium; a map of the Belgian Congo [later Zaire, then the Democratic Republic of the Congo]; allegations of illegal treatment of natives by the Belgian company Societe Anonyme Belge and a letter from Arthur Conan Doyle.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including unemployment insurance, foreign policy and the likelihood of war with Germany (4); Sir Charles Ottley (Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence) on military forces in Ireland; Lord Crewe [earlier Lord Houghton, also Robert Milnes] on discussion of naval estimates; Oliver Locker-Lampson; Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] on dealings with Portugal; and Sir Edward Grey [Foreign...

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Includes: a letter from [2nd Lord] Selborne [earlier William Palmer] on appointments in South Africa; a letter from [Lord Morley, Lord President of the Council] criticising WSC's stance on Foreign Office relations with Russia and a note from [Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary] on astrological conditions.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood, Secretary of State for Air]; [Sir] Hugh Trenchard [Chief of Air Staff] on operations against the Akhwan raiders in Southern Iraq; [Sir] Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary]; Sir Maurice Hankey and Lawrence Burgis.Also includes copies of letters from WSC to the individuals mentioned above and to William Bridgeman [First Lord of the Admiralty] on a court martial. Includes notes by WSC attacking...

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Printed booklet summarising foreign affairs particularly in Germany, Austria-Hungary and detailing events in the Eastern and Western theatres.

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Printed booklet summarising foreign affairs particularly in Germany, Austria-Hungary and detailing events in the Eastern and Western theatres.

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of statements made by [1st] Lord Hailsham [earlier Sir Douglas Hogg] Lord Chancellor; [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne], Minister of Agriculture; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education; Sir Arthur...

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Includes suggested replies to questions put to Conservative candidates on a variety of issues including: disarmament arbitration; war debts and reparations; the Kellogg pact; employment of young people; talking films; tied cottages; service pensions; cruelty to animals; taxation of liquor and policy regarding prohibition; education policy; widows and orphans funds; lunacy reform; co-operative societies; motor taxation; and state aid for the deaf.Also includes a letter from Rupert Howorth.

Scope and Contents Cabinet papers on various subjects including: the declaration of London and its effect on Great Britain's "belligerent rights" and neutral shipping; the Russian fishing zone; Japanese affairs including tariff negotiations, the treaty of commerce and navigation, and an alliance with Great Britain; bulletins from [James] Bryce [British ambassador to the United States] on tariff relations between Canada and the United States; budget arrangements in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and the United...

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Cabinet papers providing summaries of foreign affairs including: affairs in Russia including proceedings at the Imperial Duma and the growth of revolutionary elements; affairs in South Eastern Europe including Turkey and increasing animosity between Greece and Bulgaria; affairs in North Western Europe including the trial of Don Francisco Ferrer in Spain; affairs in Austria-Hungary and in Persia [Iran] and a report on the Egyptian law for placing people under police supervision.