Scope and Contents Letters from Milner to LSA on subjects including: the Compatriots [tariff reform group]; payment for LSA's work; LSA's work on the Times History of the South African War; Milner's concerns about the new South African constitution; the political situation in Australia; LSA's visit to Australia with the Empire Parliamentary Association; the death of George Wyndham; Home Rule for Ulster; LSA's poor chances of gaining a parliamentary seat at Oxford and failure at Wolverhampton [Staffordshire];...

Scope and Contents Copies of LSA's letters to Alfred Deakin [Prime Minister of Australia] on subjects including: the Imperial Conference of 1907, particularly on Imperial Preference, opposition to Deakin's position from Sir Wilfrid Laurier [Prime Minister of Canada] and unity within the Empire; establishing military colleges in each part of the Empire; articles by LSA on the Conference; the political position in South Africa, particularly relating to Sir Leander Jameson [Premier, Cape Colony, later part of...

Scope and Contents Letters and minutes between LSA and Milner on subjects including: policy on Ireland; the lack of organisation for recruitment and training on the outbreak of war; the campaign for conscription or National Service; the stalemate on the Western Front; the Dardanelles Campaign and the situation in the Balkans; the need for a change in Government and more concentration on the Empire, rather than Britain's place in Europe; David Lloyd-George's new coalition Government, and reasons for Milner not...

Scope and Contents Letters and minutes between LSA and Milner on subjects including: Milner's new position as Secretary of State for the Colonies and LSA's position as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies; the Raw Materials Board; policy on Cyprus; Portuguese East Africa [later Mozambique]; free trade within the League of Nations; Milner being pulled out from the Colonial Office and sent to the Versailles Peace Conference [France]; the reconstruction of East Africa; Syria; Imperial Preference; the...

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War Cabinet memoranda by LSA on subjects including: the Lease-Lend Agreement with the United States; Europe and the post-war settlement, on a possible European union; the plan for a United Nations; the intermediate future for Europe and the Empire; post-war civilian air transport; economic discussions with the United States; Imperial Preference and commercial policy; the future of Western Europe, particularly post-war Germany.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to tax on luxury imports, including: Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on the withdrawal of the McKenna duties; press-cuttings on results for the motor industry if the duties were withdrawn; Board of Trade import and export statistics for the motor trade and silk industry under the McKenna duties; memorandum on the effect of the reimposition of the duties; Board of Trade papers on the McKenna duties (relating to the motor industry, musical instruments, clocks and...

Scope and Contents Memoranda by LSA on subjects including: the need for a reconstruction Cabinet after the war; policy on Imperial Preference and safeguarding of industry; the relation of overseas trade with employment; war reparations from Germany which could be used for Imperial development; Empire development as a part of trade policy; proposed financial assistance to develop Imperial resources; the Safeguarding of Industries Act, as applied to France, Belgium and Italy; Civil Commissioners and supply and...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Imperial Preference and expansionist policy; Britain's economic future; India's position in relation to the Commonwealth; economic discussions with the United States; Anglo-American relations; planning for after the war; overseas trade; government of Indian provinces controlled by the Congress party; India and the war; the Empire and the preferential tariff system; the post-war future of India; commercial policy; the sterling problem. Also includes: memorandum by...

Scope and Contents Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: the report of the Palestine Commission; colonial claims; the Geographical magazine; British agriculture in relation to the Dominions; sugar duties and Imperial Preference; the Import Duties Bill (1932); maintaining naval strength; the worldwide economic depression; Kingsley Fairbridge and the Empire Farm Schools; failures of the League of Nations; Magna Carta and political freedom in the modern era; Dutch policy in the East Indies...

Scope and Contents Manuscript speech notes by LSA on subjects including: tariff reform, Imperial Preference and Free Trade; Imperial defence; the role of the Royal Navy; the Imperial Conference; the constitution and reform of the House of Lords; national service; policy on South Africa, particularly on equal rights for the Boers and British. Also includes: notes on whether LSA himself should join the army at Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece] or stay in the War Office; draft letter on the possibility of...

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Cuttings reporting on WSC's speeches in the House of Commons, on subjects including: army spending; the Budget; trade; Ireland; the Empire; the Colonial Office; Free Trade; South Africa.

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Including annotated articles on: election campaigns for Wolverhampton [Staffordshire]; free trade and tariff reform; the licensing bill; LSA's connections with the Fabian Society.

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Annotated pamphlets: the annual report the Empire Parliamentary Association; Free Trade Union pamphlets on Imperial Preference; pamphlet from the Economist on the threat of protectionism.

Scope and Contents Annotated prints of articles, lectures and broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: the problem of the cession of mandated territories, or former German colonies in Africa; Paneuropa and the Ottawa conference [Canada] in July 1932, concerning imperial trade, the inadequacy of the League of Nations and resulting importance of the Commonwealth, and the road to European economic unity; the British Empire and the Pan-European idea; Imperial unity; the balance of trade and proposals for...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Hugh Arnold-Forster [former Secretary of State for War] on saving the Militia; Robert Baden-Powell on setting up the Boy Scouts; [Charles] Moberly Bell [Assistant Manager of the Times] on the costs of [Robert] Erskine Childers's volume of the Times History of the South African War; Francis Higgins Bernard on local views of Tariff Reform (2); William Bridgeman on Tariff Reform relating to agriculture; Robert Borden [Leader of the Conservative party in Canada] on...

Scope and Contents Memoranda by LSA on taxation and Imperial Preference, particularly: the British Dyestuffs Agreement; proposed financial assistance to develop Imperial resources, the position regarding protection and preference and the relation of overseas trade to employment; comments on a Board of Trade memorandum on Imperial preference; the McKenna duties [tax on luxury imports]; the relation of overseas trade to employment. Also includes: memorandum by Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame [President of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between WSC and Samuel Smethurst [Lancashire cotton mill-owner and Vice-Chairman of Oldham Conservative Association], chiefly while WSC was MP for Oldham, on subjects including: Smethurst's concern about WSC's support for Free Trade, Liberalism and 5th Lord Rosebery; the possibility of a new middle-ground political party led by Rosebery or a less radical Conservative Party; the difficulties of WSC leaving the Conservatives and his own moderate political views and dislike of...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Henry Drummond-Wolff [Empire Economic Union] on subjects including: a paper by LSA for the European League of Economic Co-operation; tariffs, trade agreements and Imperial Preference; the civil aviation policy of the United States. Other correspondents include: Ronald Russell [Research Secretary of the Empire Economic Union]; Sir Herbert Williams [Honorary Secretary of the Empire Economic Union] (4); 1st Lord Woolton [Chairman of the Conservative Party, earlier...

Scope and Contents Texts of speeches and memoranda by LSA on subjects including: the world economy, particularly the role of the United States and the Empire; Anglo-American relations; control of international trade, particularly in protecting the Empire; post-war planning, including new housing, social, health care and educational reform and a change in economic policy; policy in Western Europe, relating to Germany as the boundary between the West and Eastern Europe, and the defence of Western Europe;...

Scope and Contents Papers on the sugar industry, including: report on the Mauritius sugar industry, by Sir Francis Watts; report of the British Sugar Beet Society's annual general meeting; statements by LSA as Chairman of the Sugar Federation of the British Empire, on Empire sugar policy, British sugar duties and Imperial Preference, and while representing the industry in a deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer; memorandum by LSA on Empire sugar policy, presented to the Imperial Economic Conference,...

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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Two drafts of speech notes by LSA.

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Papers by LSA on tariff reform and Imperial Preference, including: press-cuttings of Times articles and letters to the Times written by LSA; pamphlet, The Case for Tariff Reform; text and notes for speeches by LSA on fiscal reform and Imperial policy; notes on tariff reform and constructive policy; notes on the Trade Union Tariff Reform League.

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Report of the Tariffs Committee of the Conservative Research Department, recommending a three-rate tariff and a Tariff Commission, and examining Parliamentary procedure for adopting their proposals.

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Report of the Conservative Research Department's tariffs committee, chaired by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], particularly on an emergency protective tariff on imports and tariffs on manufactured foodstuffs.