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Typescript and proof of LSA's article on Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's 1950 Budget, "Financing for Disaster", with background material including extracts from the Economist, Conservative Research Department notes, Government statements on national income and expenditure, 1946-48, and an article by Sir Hubert Henderson on the problem of cutting public spending.

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Print of WSC's Budget statement on Philip Snowden's last Budget as former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the National Debt, the return to the Gold Standard, expenditure and revenue, estate duty, tax on luxury goods, import duty on hops, the re-imposition of the McKenna Duties, pensions, Imperial Preference, super-tax and income tax.

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Handwritten speaking notes notes for WSC's Budget statement on Philip Snowden's last Budget as former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the National Debt, the return to the Gold Standard, expenditure and revenue, estate duty, tax on luxury goods, import duty on hops, the re-imposition of the McKenna Duties, pensions, Imperial Preference, super-tax and income tax.In WSC's hand.

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Speaking notes for WSC's Budget statement (26 April), on the inland revenue, debt, expenditure, Fighting Services, the return to the Gold Standard, silk duty, the McKenna Duties, Imperial Preference, betting duty, the Road Fund and the French war debt.Typescript laid out in "psalm style" with manuscript annotations in red and black ink by WSC.

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Print of WSC's Budget statement on the inland revenue, debt, expenditure, Fighting Services, the return to the Gold Standard, silk duty, the McKenna Duties, Imperial Preference, betting duty, the Road Fund and the French war debt.

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Print of WSC's Budget statement on the effects of the General Strike and coal dispute, revenue (1926-1927) and expenditure (1926-1928), post-war Government departments, the National Debt, war debts, the sinking fund, simplification of income tax, tax evasion, indirect taxation, the McKenna Duties, wine and tobacco duties, the Road Fund and beer duties.

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Speech notes for WSC's Budget statement on the effects of the General Strike and coal dispute, revenue (1926-1927) and expenditure (1926-1928), post-war Government departments, the National Debt, war debts, the sinking fund, simplification of income tax, tax evasion, indirect taxation, the McKenna Duties, wine and tobacco duties, the Road Fund and beer duties.Typescript laid out in "psalm style" with manuscript annotations in red and black ink by WSC.

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Speech notes for WSC's Budget statement on the past year, the National Debt, expenditure and revenue, the betting tax, inland revenue, reform of the local rating system, oil duty, sugar duty and car tax.Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style" with manuscript annotations in red and black ink by WSC.

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Print of WSC's Budget statement on the past year, the National Debt, expenditure and revenue, the betting tax, inland revenue, reform of the local rating system, oil duty, sugar duty and car tax.

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Print of WSC's Budget statement on a review of the past 5 years, the Gold Standard and cost of living, the National Debt, surplus funds (1928 - 1929), expenditure (1929), revenue, import duties, the betting tax, the Road Fund, de-rating and taxation.

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Speech notes for WSC's Budget statement on a review of the past 5 years, the Gold Standard and cost of living, the National Debt, surplus funds (1928 - 1929), expenditure (1929), revenue, import duties, the betting tax, the Road Fund, de-rating and taxation.Typescript and manuscript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style" with manuscript annotations in red and black ink by WSC.

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Cartoons of WSC on Tariff Reform, Budget, Navy debate, Unemployment insurance, Female Suffrage, Labour Exchanges, electoral reform (WSC appearing in Parliament in pyjamas); photos of CSC.

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Mainly subject files, consisting of papers and correspondence received by JEP, but also including some Conservative policy and Shadow Cabinet papers.

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Speech notes for WSC's statement on possible ways forward in the coal dispute, the chances of new proposals and the results of the strike. Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style" annotated in manuscript by WSC. Filing envelope present.

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Minute instructing Sir George Barstow to ascertain how much of the government subsidy for miners' wages had been spent on wages and how much was profit to the coal owners and to establish the "true financial position of the coal trade". Carbon typescript.

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Subjects include: old age pensions; the Transport Bill; the convertibility of sterling; foreign affairs, particularly Germany, the Soviet Union and Korea [North Korea and South Korea]; the Colonial Development Corporation; the political situation in Nigeria; the Economic Survey, 1953; housing; the Finance Bill, 1952; the Empire Settlement Bill, 1952; the Government's first six months in office.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Herbert Baker on his plans for a new memorial area in Westminster Abbey [London]; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on LSA's return from his Empire Tour and on his impressions of Canada; Sir Otto Beit; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden, 1st Sea Lord; Alfred Beit; Richard Bennett, Leader of the Conservative Party in Canada, on the possibility of a uniform currency throughout the Empire; Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on his visit home, settling a question of port handling in Kenya, and his health; Reginald Leigh [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on LSA's invitation to join the Academie Diplomatique Internationale; 1st Lord Athlone [Governor-General of South Africa] on the good effect of LSA's visit to South Africa and reaching a compromise with [?] Senator Nicolas de Wet (2); Sir Robert...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] disapproving of LSA's attending the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa [Canada] as representative of the Chamber of Agriculture, and on iron and steel duties (2); 9th Lord Bessborough [Governor-General of Canada, earlier Lord Duncannon] on the benefits to Canada from the Ottawa Conference and British debt payments to the United States; Sir William Birdwood, regretting that neither LSA nor Winston Churchill had become...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Willey]; Eduard Benes [Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs] on LSA's views about the Little Entente and its part in the pacification of Central Europe; 1st Lord Bridgeman; Sir Robert Borden on maintaining Commonwealth unity and reaction in Canada to the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa; Sir George McLaren Brown on the dramatic ["New Deal"] economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States]; [Arthur]...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alexander [Governor-General of Canada]; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on subjects including recalling his time as Assistant Editor of the Outlook with J L Garvin (2); Clement Attlee, Prime Minister; Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees; Thomas Balogh; Jacques Bardoux on the decline of the Communist Party in France and the death of his wife (2); Sir Ernest Barker; Enid Moberly Bell; 1st Lord Birdwood; Robert Boothby [delegate...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] asking LSA to write an article on the state of sterling; Sir Denis Boyd, Principal of Ashridge College; Clement Attlee on receiving the Order of Merit; David Ben-Gurion; Sir Ernest Benn; John Biggs-Davison on his biography of George Wyndham; Sir Oswald Birley; Basil Blackwell [Chairman of Basil Blackwell and Mott Limited] on LSA's "The Elizabethan Spirit" and his miscellaneous writings (3); William Bowly on...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; Nancy, Lady Astor, thanking LSA for his sympathy on the death of 2nd Lord Astor; Jacques Bardoux; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst] on helping LSA with agricultural policy questions (4); P Clavell Blount (3); 1st Lord Brand on the disadvantages of financial aid from the United States; Leonard Brockington; Arthur Bryant (2); 1st Lord Bruce, Chairman of the Finance Corporation for Industry Limited; James...

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Correspondence with the financial consultant Edmund Goldberger on economic issues, including Goldberger's regular economic analyses and various papers on the economic situation.

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Correspondence with the financial consultant Edmund Goldberger on economic issues, including Goldberger's regular economic analyses and various papers on the economic situation.