Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing for the revaluation of gold as the means of providing justice to individual risk-taking investors as against the bankers. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/55-58.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC pointing out the injustice of not adjusting the debts of countries like Australia when the prices of the commodities in which the debts are paid are much lower than when the debts were contracted and urging WSC to take the lead in explaining why a devaluation of gold is needed. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/59-65.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that the Government should provide credit facilities of internal reconstruction schemes and that "Fair Trade" and the free circulation of money is the key to economic recovery. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/66-70.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that free trade in money and in goods are no longer workable systems in the modern world and that the level of general morality determines what monetary system is used. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/71-76.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that the revaluation of gold is the only way of justly reducing the burden of all kinds of debt, attacking the banking system for protecting gilt-edged securities at the expense of risk-taking private investors, and setting out the means by which Britain should repay her war debt to the United States. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/77-83.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that speed of circulation is much more important than the size of the currency, proposing that the Bank of England should issue 100 million pounds worth of notes for capital investment, and urging WSC and David Lloyd George to take the lead in opposing the current supine economic policy. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/84-89.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC attacking the pre-war generation's adherence to out-moded economic beliefs and asserting that in the interests of internal circulation of money in Britain holders of stock of all kinds must make active use of their assets, with the Government making investment facilities available if necessary. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/90-98.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC stressing the importance of continuing investment in the capitalist system. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/99-102.

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that a conference with the United States about the settlement of war debts should precede the Lausanne Conference and outlining the advantages he believes would be derived from the devaluation of gold by 50 per cent and the provision of interest-free gold loans for reconstruction. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/103-106.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/7-9.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/10-13.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/14-19.

Typescript copy of CHAR 2/187/20-23.

Letter from Ian Colvin, (the Morning Post, Tudor Street, London), to WSC, giving the source of a quotation by Austen Chamberlain [former Secretary of State for India] about how foolish Lancashire would be to "boggle at a paltry four per cent India tariff against cotton imports", which was said in the House of Commons, 14 March 1917.

Letter from Ian Colvin, (the Morning Post, Tudor Street, London), to WSC, on the Times report of a deputation from Lancashire which met Austen Chamberlain, [former Secretary of State for India], 13 March 1917 on the subject of Indian duties on cotton.

Letter from Harold Robinson, [Chairman, Lancashire Group, India Defence League], to WSC, enclosing a reprint of his article from the Oldham Chronicle, 30 March 1935, "Lancashire Demands a Square Deal - Remove the Surcharges in Indian Tariff on Cotton Goods"; reporting that the article had been issued to all Lancashire MPs.

Extract from the "Parliamentary Report" of 21 December containing Boothby's speech in the House of Commons during the Adjournment Debate, calling for a clear explanation of the Government's economic and trade policy, and the purchase of coal-mining royalties, the improvement of city roads and housing for the poor. [Covering letter at CHAR 2/234/5]. Printed.

Letter from "Bob" [Robert Boothby] (The French House, Lympne, Kent) to WSC, explaining the Treasury case against [international currency] stabilisation, as "the dollar is hopelessly undervalued and the franc is hopelessly overvalued", and the position of the United States and France; the opinion of [Sir Frederick] Leith-Ross [Chief Economic Adviser to the Government] on the proper dollar-sterling rate. Manuscript.

A copy of the booklet "Money the Jester", by "Santosam" [H Midwood], on the world economy. Covering letters at CHAR 2/235/91 and CHAR 2/235/94.

Newspaper cutting from the New York Herald-Tribune, "Today and Tomorrow: the NRA and After", by Walter Lippman, on the United States National Recovery Administration.

Letter from Bernard Baruch (597 Madison Avenue, New York [United States]) to WSC, enclosing notes on the New Deal [see CHAR 2/235/5 and CHAR 2/236/6-10] and commenting on the world-wide trend towards greater distribution of wealth, as in the Soviet Union, the United States and Europe. Annotated "In article box - new American articles".