Scope and Contents Memorandum by WSC (5 June, Select Committee on Procedure on Public Business) on forming a non-political Economic Sub-Parliament.Speech notes and typescript (10 June, Folkestone, Kent), entitled "India (Government Policy) on the Gateshead by-election [County Durham], the Labour Government's record, the need for Conservatives to have a separate policy on India, British interests in India and the Cawnpore Riots. Source material includes a press cutting from the Times on the Round Table...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (2 July 1924, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Centenary dinner, Hotel Cecil, London). Source material includes notes on the founding of the service, modern lifeboats, typical rescues and funding. Published: Complete Speeches IV p 3463 (part).Speech notes for WSC's speech (17 July 1924, Association of Advertising Clubs of the World Convention, Wembley, London), on the cause of depression in trade and consumption, and the need for advertising to strengthen...

Scope and Contents Typescript for WSC's speech (4 May, Aldwych Club luncheon, London), entitled "The political scene at a distance" on the Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law's breaking of the coalition, the risk of party strife letting in the Labour Party, the British constitution and the results of a Labour Government. Published: Complete Speeches IV pp 3381 - 3388. Speech notes at CHAR 9/70/124-147.Speech notes for WSC's speech (16 November, Free Trade Hall, Manchester), entitled "Free Trade", on the...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (19 February, 1900 Club) on the failure of the Labour Government, a 3 party General Election, the Labour and Liberal alliance, Conservative proposals for protective food taxation and agriculture.Typescript for WSC's speech (26 March, Harlow, Essex), entitled "The Economic Situation" on Conservative proposals for protective food taxation, the Labour and Liberal alliance, the next Labour Budget and agricultural policy. Also includes a note (1934) from Violet...

Scope and Contents Speech notes and Hansard report of WSC's speech (12 November, House of Commons) entitled "The international scene" on subjects including: the cold war, the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union and the strength of the Soviet army; support for the United Nations; the need to aid Germany but prevent rearmament; the Nuremberg trials and war crimes; Imperial Preference; affairs in countries including India, Egypt and the Suez canal, Palestine, National Service and the armed forces;...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (12 November 1948, Westminster Abbey) at the unveiling of a memorial to President Franklin Roosevelt in which WSC pays tribute to Roosevelt. Published: Complete Speeches VII, pp 7730-31.Speech notes for WSC's speech (16 November 1948, House of Commons) entitled "The Iron and Steel Bill" on the nationalisation of the steel industry including: the contrast between unemployment after World War I and full employment after World War II; a loan from the United States...

Scope and Contents Letters on tariff and fiscal reform, written to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph [John Le Sage], following a series of articles by J L Garvin on "Imperial Reciprocity". Correspondents include: William Ecroyd; Harold Cox, Secretary of the Cobden Club; Julius Bertram; Sir Guilford Molesworth. Also includes letters from: Joseph Chamberlain, writing to J L Garvin on the publication of the articles (4); J Wilson, secretary to Chamberlain, writing to Garvin (2); 6th Lord...

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Letter from Beatrice Webb (later Lady Passfield), 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, London, to WSC, on working class feeling against taxes on food and its relation to the growth of socialism, recommending that he should consult Eduard Bernstein of Berlin.

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Letter from Sidney Low, Durham Place, Chelsea, to WSC, on free trade.

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Letter from Lord James of Hereford to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times on free trade.

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Letter from Lord Morley of Blackburn to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times on free trade.

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Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne to WSC, advising him that "there is no future for Free Traders in the Conservative Party".

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Letter from Lord Rosebery to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times on free trade.

Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer [WSC] to King George V about his budget proposals. He explains that the budget has two main objectives: to provide security for the wage earning population against misfortune and to encourage the "enterprise of the nation" by remission of income taxes; that the 1925 budget is based on tax revenue of £826 million set against expenditure of £799.5 million; proposals to increase estate duty and taxes on luxury goods and to re-introduce the...

Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, about a possible enquiry into protection of the steel industry, pointing out that there will be consequences because it underpins the rest of British industry, which make it likely that an enquiry would over-ride the claims of the steel industry, or if it didn't, that Free Trade will become a dominant feature of British politics. WSC suggests that the government is not obliged to set up an enquiry, and that a Royal Commission...

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Letter from Sir Ian Malcolm to WSC, on the need to keep the Unionist free trade party together.

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Letter from S.S. Soffard to WSC on free trade.

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Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn] to WSC on free trade.

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Letter from J.W. Lees to WSC on free trade.

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Letter from Sir Charles Shaw to WSC on free trade.

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Letter from Sir Charles Shaw to WSC, on WSC's forthcoming address to Midland Conservative Club, expressing regret that he would not be dealing with the fiscal question.

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Letter from W. Herbert Williams to WSC on free trade.

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Letter from Herbert Vivian to WSC, on public meetings and the need for newspaper coverage of the free trade cause.

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Letter from WSC to Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn], on the tactics of the free trade campaign.

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Letter from Ernest Beckett to WSC, on the tactics of the free trade campaign.