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Press cuttings mainly on AFB's birthday, but also including articles by AFB on the world economy, "One Hundred Nations call for a New International Economic Order" [see also FEBR 2/39], on his memories of the Abdication Crisis, on disarmament, "To Stay Alive - Man's Basic Right" and the history of the peace movement, "A People's Movement for Peace".

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Includes: draft annotated by Sir Simon Marks; texts of articles by John Hammond on beef and mutton supplies and the future of livestock; draft texts on the gold situation, taxation, food production and investment by LSA; draft annotated by 1st Lord Weir.

Scope and Contents Annotated draft of LSA's chapter on the industrial prospect, with comments from individuals including: Sir Desmond Morton, Treasury; 3rd Lord Halsbury, Managing Director of the Research Development Corporation [earlier Lord Tiverton] (2); Ernest Lever, Chairman of Richard Thomas and Baldwins Limited and of the Steel Company of Wales, Limited; Sir Ben Lockspeiser, Secretary to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; Sir Harry Railing [Vice-President of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, chiefly thanks for complementary copies, and also commenting on LSA's work, requesting permission to quote and contributing source material, with correspondents including: [Eric] Gordon England; Sir [James] Angus Gillan (2); Herbert Butterfield; John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Research Department (2); Sir Charles Webster; Sir [John] Gilbert Laithwaite; Sir Ronald Cross; [Daniel] Roland Michener; Sir [Charles] Willoughby Norrie; 3rd Lord Aberdare [earlier Clarence Bruce];...

Scope and Contents Correspondents commenting on LSA's draft chapter on agriculture include: Henry Walston; Thomas Williams [former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries]; Marcus Sieff; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst] (2); Walter Elliot; Professor Solly Zuckerman; Thomas Dugdale [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, later 1st Lord Crathorne]; Sir James Scott Watson [Chief Scientific and Agricultural Adviser to Ministry of Agriculture, and Director-General of the National Agricultural Advisory...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir [Alfred] Guy Garrod; [John] Gibson Jarvie; Alan Green, Director of the Scapa Group Limited; Sir Harold Hartley, Chairman of the British Electricity Authority; Frank Hillier, Secretary-General of the Air League of the British Empire (2); Sir William Larke (2); Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe; [William] Walker Shepherd, Chairman of Turner and Newall Limited. Also includes: drafts of LSA's chapter on the industrial prospect, with comments by Garrod, Jarvie, Larke and...

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Correspondents on LSA's draft include: Sir Cecil Kisch; 11th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Chairman of Lloyds Bank; [Stanley] Paul Chambers, Deputy Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited; Leslie Gamage, General Electric Company Limited (2); Sir Charles Hambro [Chairman of Hambros Bank Limited]; Sir Dougal Malcolm; Sir Desmond Morton, Treasury; [William] Walker Shepherd, Chairman of Turner and Newall Limited; Siegmund Warburg, Director of S. G. Warburg and Company Limited.

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Includes: cuttings; letters from 'Top' [3rd Lord Selborne, earlier Lord Wolmer], 1st Lord Hudson [former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries] and 7th Lord Radnor [Chairman of the Forestry Commission, earlier Lord Folkestone] commenting on LSA's chapter on agriculture; annotated partial draft of LSA's chapter on agriculture.

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Includes: cuttings; issue of Hansard covering a debate on the economic situation; Empire Industries Association and British Empire League bulletin; note on wheat supplies in the United States from Thomas Dugdale [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, later 1st Lord Crathorne]; comments on LSA's notes on New Zealand and Australia from their High Commissions.

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This series includes notes, texts and correspondence on literary works by LSA, including: a work by LSA on economics, "The Awakening"; LSA's memoirs, "My Political Life", including the unpublished fourth volume (which LSA died before he could complete); "A Balanced Economy"; a collection of addresses and lectures by LSA, "Loose Leaves"; "The Life of Joseph Chamberlain"; articles, books and pamphlets, many by LSA or with contributions and annotations by him.

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Source material on the economies of South Africa, Central Africa, Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], India and Pakistan.

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Scope and Contents Includes: cuttings; letters from 2nd Lord Cranworth [earlier Bertram Gurdon], Thomas Dugdale [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, later 1st Lord Crathorne], Marcus Sieff and Sir Desmond Morton, Treasury, commenting on LSA's chapter on agriculture; text of a lecture by Sir Harold Hartley on agriculture as a potential source of raw materials for industry; essays on food production; annual review and fixing of farm prices, 1952; statistics for animal feed imports and subsidies; Ministry of...

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Includes: cuttings; booklet on the Agricultural Research Service; annotated partial draft of LSA's chapter on agriculture; comments from the National Farmers' Union.

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Includes: cuttings; Empire Industries Association bulletin and historical note on Imperial Preference; letter from and text of a series of lectures by Sir William McLean on the social and economic development of the Empire; reports of the Colonial Office Colonial Primary Products Committee, 1948-49; report of the Commonwealth Economic Committee, reviewing Commonwealth agriculture as related to production and trade.

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Includes: cuttings; information bulletins, including reports of the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Includes: cuttings, mainly from the Times survey of British aviation; memoranda by the Air League of the British Empire on the employment of aviation to accelerate the development of the colonial Empire and the expansion of British aircraft production.

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Includes: cuttings; an article by Sir Herbert Merrett on prospects for coal.

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Includes: Ministry of Fuel and Power reports on domestic fuel policy, the use of power resources and mining; National Coal Board proposals on coal use; annotated copy of the Paley Commission report on the need for a coal revolution; annual reports and gazettes of the British Coal Utilisation Research Association.

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Includes: United States Council of Productivity report on the British electricity system; corrected proofs of LSA's papers on the need for a coal revolution and on Britain's neglected mineral wealth; cuttings.

Scope and Contents Includes: report of the Fuel Research Board, 1951; report by David Price, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, on the national fuel situation, December 1951; annotated draft of a paper by LSA on the need for a coal revolution; press cuttings on the coal industry; paper on nationalisation from the worker's view; text of an article by 1st Lord Citrine on the problems of electricity supply; correspondence with Claude Lancaster and Geoffrey Lloyd, Minister of Fuel and Power, on LSA's paper on...

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