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Cuttings on the economy: Budget (attacks on WSC’s handling including speech by David Lloyd George, and release of the new budget); General Strike and subsequent negotiations; Trade Unionism; war debts of France; taxation (especially betting); Bank Rate.
International/National affairs: WSC’s visit to Belfast, Ulster, problems with Soviet Union, Agricultural Policy; rumours of WSC being made first Minister of Defence.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: David Eccles; Norman Robertson, High Commissioner for Canada, on the feasibility of Canada leaving the dollar area to join the sterling area; Walter Nash [New Zealand Minister of Finance]; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the economic influence of the United States; 1st Lord Croft on the Export Guarantees Bill and Imperial Preference (2); Robert Brand [Treasury Representative in Washington] on keeping confidence in sterling; Sir Hubert...

Scope and Contents Texts of articles by LSA on economic affairs, including: the Empire and economic unity, and the business men's manifesto; improving trade with Imperial Preference; Conservative policy on safeguarding British industry and Imperial trade; the state of the iron and steel industry; the Import Duties Bill (1932); faults in the National Government and Cabinet system; the history of the campaign for Imperial Preference, including Joseph Chamberlain and Free Trade; the International Economic...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Edouard Giscard d'Estaing on closer European union; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, Secretary, then Chairman of ELEC, on subjects including stopping Robert Boothby from resigning from the United Europe Movement, and ELEC conferences (6); Edward Beddington-Behrens, President, then Vice-President of ELEC on subjects including ELEC conferences (with a copy of a letter from R A Butler, replying to Beddington-Behrens's congratulations on becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with Association officials and other correspondents including: Sir Donald Simson; Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Association (7); George Drew, Leader of the Opposition of Canada, on speaking to the Association and establishing branches in Canada (2); Siegmund Warburg, Director of S G Warburg and Company Limited (2); Sir Hubert Henderson [Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford]; Robert Menzies; Sir Chintaman Deshmukh, Indian Minister of Finance;...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with Association officials and other correspondents including: George Drew, Leader of the Opposition of Canada, on speaking to the Association and establishing links between Canada and Britain; Lord Balfour of Inchrye, on resigning as Chairman of the Association, and the Association deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [R A Butler] (4); Sir Donald Simson. Also includes: minutes; Association bulletins; text of a speech by LSA given as President on the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with Association officials and other correspondents including: Sir [Henry] Victor Raikes on his concerns at the Government's attitude to trade; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Association, on subjects including immediate policy and proceeding without regard to party considerations, commissioning a portrait of LSA and resigning his Chairmanship (14); Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies [later 1st Lord Chandos] (2); Maurice Petherick; 1st...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence, including: issues of the Association bulletin; print of a speech by LSA as President of the Association, given at an Empire Unity Campaign meeting; trade and unemployment statistics, 1929-35; memorandum by LSA on Association policy, particularly economic nationalism, the effect of the American system and the worldwide depression, links between trade and employment and protection of British and Empire industry and agriculture; statement by the Association on the...

Scope and Contents Prints of speeches, articles and broadcasts by LSA as President of the Association, on subjects including: the economic situation; Empire trade; electoral reform; inter-racial co-operation in East Africa; the modern Commonwealth; apartheid in South Africa; the strength of sterling; British responsibilities in the Middle East; the diamond jubilee of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; tribute to Jan Smuts; early Alpine guides; the English-Thinking World; the devaluation of sterling; trading...

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Texts, prints and speaking notes of speeches by LSA, given as President of the Association.

Scope and Contents Papers including: report of the Board's constitution committee; report on the work of the Board (May 1932); letters from Sir Stephen Tallents, Secretary (2); reports on the general work of the Board, grants for scientific research and other schemes, statistics, market research and economic investigation, market promotion, publicity and illustrations of the Board's work; appreciations and regrets on the work of the Board on its termination, including resolutions and comments from public and...

Scope and Contents Prints, press-cuttings and texts of speeches by LSA relating to the Empire, on subjects including: Empire settlement and development; ships, colonies and commerce; Imperial co-operation; the Empire market; how shipping built the Empire; economic development of the Empire; settlement and migration; inter-Imperial trade; a united Empire; the development of the railway in East Africa; Imperial interests as compared to Britain's place in Europe; trade and the Gold Standard; aspects of the...

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Texts of speeches by LSA on the Empire, particularly: the Empire partnership; the disadvantages to Britain of a pan-European idea; the future of the Empire, in policy and in contribution to world affairs; the Singapore naval base; trade and an Empire Trade Week.

Scope and Contents Includes: extracts from the British Empire Review, with texts of speeches by LSA; texts, prints and press cuttings of articles by LSA on the case and future for Imperial Preference, dominions policy and the future of the Empire; trade statistics for the Empire; issue of and extracts from Hansard, including speeches by LSA on tariff policy and Imperial Preference; prints of trade discussions and agreements with Australia, India, South Africa and Canada; Empire Industries Association trade...

Scope and Contents Papers on taxation and industry, particularly relating to free trade and the McKenna duties [tax on luxury imports], including: notes by LSA on unemployment and the resulting Labour election victory [? of 1924]; pamphlets on free trade, protectionism, the problems of industry, Empire trade figures and tariff reform; Silk Association enquiry into the silk industry and report of evidence given to the Board of Trade into the industry; trade figures, including iron and steel output; papers from...

Scope and Contents Papers annotated by LSA, including: pamphlets and articles on subjects including the end of the International Trade Organization, GATT and the Havana Charter, Japan's attempt to sign up to GATT and Imperial Preference; print of the GATT text with related documents; Board of Trade report on the Geneva [Switzerland] Tariff Negotiations; memorandum drafted by LSA for the Empire Industries Association and the British Empire League, and submitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on trade...

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Cuttings, prints, proofs and manuscripts of articles written by LSA, mainly for the Times and National Review, on subjects including: mountaineering; north-western Canada; the Imperial Conference (1907); the East African empire; the Education Bill (1906); British trade figures; the military geography of the empire; reorganizing the Conservative Party; policy on tariff reform, defence, Ireland and social issues.

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Cuttings and prints of articles and papers written by LSA on subjects including: military tactical policy; defence from the imperial standpoint; the Australian tariff; South Africa and Imperial Preference; some practical steps towards an Imperial Constitution; cavalry equipment and training; Hudson Bay [Canada] and its coasts.

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Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the conference, including: letter from Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet] on the possibility of South Africa seeking the right of secession from the Empire; memorandum and article by LSA on the failure of the conference; Conservative and Unionist hints for speakers on the Socialists and the conference; copy of a statement by Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party, on national and imperial policy; extract from Hansard, including...

Scope and Contents Papers including: notes by LSA on the principles of preferential policy, and on the international monetary situation; minutes of the Federation of British Industries industrial committee and price levels sub-committee; statement by LSA on the conference; letters by LSA to the press and articles on the Anti-Ottawa Thesis, Imperial Preference and gains and losses from Ottawa; Conservative and Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on the Ottawa agreements; articles on the implications of...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Edward Beatty, Chairman of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Richard Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada; Stanley Baldwin; Henry Stevens, Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, on a scheme for an Empire Bank. Also includes letters from LSA to other individuals including: Nicolaas Havenga [South African Minister of Finance] on sugar preference and the gold standard; Stanley Bruce [Australian Minister in London] on sugar preference; 1st Lord Lloyd on the...

Scope and Contents Pryce discusses Brexit and the economy, modest growth at the bottom of the G7 and G20. Hammond was optimistic in his speech about employment and the economy, Pryce questions how low paid these jobs are and supporting these with benefit payments. The fall in the pound and the Bank of England's expenditure to ensure that banks are lending has kept the economy going, but productivity has suffered. Sones asks about whether the country could have got to this point without austerity, Pryce argues...

Scope and Contents Correspondence (mainly consisting of letters written by LSA while Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet) between LSA and correspondents including: Professor William Adams [Secretary to the Prime Minister], on LSA's memoranda about Ireland (2); Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction], on LSA's idea for extending postal rates to Empire trade; Waldorf Astor [Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister], on LSA's ideas on proportional representation; Lieutenant-Colonel John...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Neville Bowman-Shaw, Sir John Drinkwater, Frank S. Law, Lynda Chalker MP, Sir John Tavare, Carlo Ripa di Meana (Member of the Commission of the European Communities), John M. Hennessy, Sir Jayvantsinhji Gohel, Dame Joan Seccombe, Sir Andrew Colin Hugh Smith, Christopher Prout MEP, Mr J F Chatfield, Lord McAlpine of West Green, Sir William Francis, Lord Renton, Sir John Loveridge, Sir Michael Grylls MP, Nicholas Hood, Roy Thomason, Sir Robert Reid, Christopher G F...