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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, and also the text of a lecture by General Sir Walter Walker on the defence of the West against the Soviet global threat, 1979.

Scope and Contents Memoranda and Cabinet papers on currency issues, including: pamphlet on "The Real Yellow Peril" or problems caused by exchange rates with China, by 1st Lord Desborough [earlier William Grenfell]; memorandum by LSA and Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Minister of Pensions] on Imperial Exchange and currency, including suggestions for an Empire currency and bank, by John Darling; India Office memorandum on a new Imperial currency system for India; memoranda by Basil Blackett [Controller of...

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Photos and cartoons of WSC and General Election, economy, Russia, income tax, war reparations.

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Cuttings and cartoons on WSC’s budget speech and the Gold Standard, his views on the economy.

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Photos of WSC boarhunting; cartoons on WSC and the Budget; WSC’s budget speech.

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Contains newspaper index. Cuttings on expenditure: (cuttings, speeches and cartoons), especially the Road Fund; coal (strikes and subsidy); the gold standard; war debts (France and Italy); Trade.
Cuttings on international and national affairs: WSC’s speech (propaganda, gold standard, war debts); Locarno Treaty; Baldwin’s speech (Food and Housing, Pacification of Europe, Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq] etc.) Religion, Ulster Unionism. Views on socialism and communism.

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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.

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Includes newspaper index.
Cuttings and Cartoons on WSC’s budget and the speculation surrounding it: rating relief; new sinking fund; tax withdrawn on paraffin; tax on petrol and full compensation for the Irish loyalists.

Political: speculation about WSC as future Premier; election date debate; WSC criticises socialism; unionism and foreign relations (war debts).

Scope and Contents Economic affairs: Budget speculation intensifies as the General Election approaches, in particular concerning taxation; controversy over the issue of Irish loyalist compensation; the rejection, by the new Socialist administration, of unsatisfactory reparations offers. Foreign Policy: Trouble in Palestine; unease in Europe, especially concerning the ‘Danzig corridor’; WSC protests against the government’s policy towards India, highlighting his disapproval by refusing to involve...

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Subjects include: a tribute to Randolph Churchill; JA's return to Parliament as MP for Brighton Pavilion [Sussex] and the economic record of the Government; the state of the West; Joseph Chamberlain.

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...

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Includes briefing notes for MT from her office staff, most regularly Richard Ryder (her Political Secretary), Adam Butler MP and John Stanley MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretaries); reports and minutes of policy groups and other committees set up under the control of Sir Keith Joseph MP; minutes and circulated papers of the Leader's Consultative Committee (Shadow Cabinet); and regular briefings from the Conservative Research Department on aspects of policy

Scope and Contents Includes: press cutting on silver legislation in the United States; "Money and the World Crisis" by Henry Denny; "The World Crisis and the Depreciation of Silver" by Constantino Perez Duarte; article on the remonetization of silver, by Herbert Rothbarth; address on the rehabilitation of silver, by John Darling; extracts from the American Congressional Record, with statements by Senator Key Pittman on the world silver problem and Britain's payment of war debts; copy of the silver agreement...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on linking the Canadian dollar to sterling, with correspondents including: Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Cranborne, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs [later 5th Lord Salisbury]; Arthur Greenwood [Minister without Portfolio]; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada (3); Henry Clay [Economic Adviser to the Bank of England]; James Ralston, Canadian Minister of Finance; Montagu Norman [Governor, Bank of England] (2); John...

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Includes: press cuttings and extracts from the Journal of the Chambers of Agriculture, reporting speeches by LSA as President of the Chambers on agricultural policy, particularly on import duties and production quotas, and results of the Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa [Canada]; letters received on the state of farming.

Scope and Contents Working papers on economics, covering subjects such as personal income distribution; public opinion on salaries in different professions; living standards; class, money, and social status; taxation and death duties; and market forecasting. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's notes. Including copies of Mark Abrams's articles "The Changed Patterns of Personal Incomes" (1955) and "The New Consumer" (1958), and drafts for article(s) on social and...

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Copy of a speech by JA in a debate on the state of the economy following the loan from the International Monetary Fund and the Government's Letter of Intent on repaying it.

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The papers cover every aspect of Lord Noel-Baker's very full and varied career and include constituency papers, Labour Party material, extensive sections on domestic and international affairs, peace and disarmament, sport, books and articles, speeches and correspondence.

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,...

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Draft notes for WSC's statement on the coal dispute, the 8 Hours Bill, wages, the Labour Party's vote of censure against the Government, the miners' refusal to come to terms, and the results of the strike. Manuscript in the hands of WSC and ?Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC]. Several pages are written on official envelopes.

Scope and Contents Papers and memoranda, including: Conservative Commonwealth Affairs Committee memorandum on the Colonial Development Corporation; Conservative Political Centre pamphlet on the sterling area; text of an address by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross on sterling, exchange control and convertibility; cuttings from the Economist; note from John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Research Department, on Australian import duties; reprint of an article by Leo Amery on Canada and the sterling area; rough notes by Leo...

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...

Scope and Contents Includes: draft political declaration on relations between Western Europe and the Soviet Union; papers of the European Movement's Central and Eastern Europe Commission; papers of the European and Commonwealth conference, Jun 1951; notes between JA and Robert Boothby on whether Western Europe could survive as a separate unit without help from either the Commonwealth or the United States; ELEC pamphlets on trade between the Commonwealth and Europe, intra-European convertibility, currency...

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Includes: reports by Roy Harrod on Europe and the dollar problem and general European economic strategy; notes by Leo Amery on trade and production; paper by Sir Cecil Kisch on co-operation between the sterling area and other non-dollar currencies; pamphlet on the monetary reconstruction of Europe; reports for monetary conferences, Brussels [Belgium], 1952-53.